[David Roth weiss]

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David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Tom,

The difference between 1080 and 2K is so minuscule, why would you even think about upscaling the 1080? Unless you absolutely have to deliver in 2K for some technical reason(s) just edit it all in a 1080 sequence. If you’re editing on FCP 7 you will have to transcode everything to QT files, preferably Pro Res, but taking action that eats time, such as upscaling the 1080p footage is just a whole lot of wasted thought and time. Trust me, your audience will not give a damn if your video is 1080p or 2K.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Don’t skimp by buying a 6-drive T-bolt enclosure vs the 8-drive enclosure, you will need the extra 25% throughout for your 4K workflows. A 25% boost in performance is well worth the extra 10 or 12% you’ll pay for the 8-drive RAID. And, stick with RAID5 just as it comes configured from the factory, but backup everything too. Resist the temptation to opt for those things that are “false economy,” a RAID with additional overhead and RAID5 protection is a RAID you don’t have to worry about, and you day to day editing experience will be happy time, not frustration time.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

[Tim Jones] “It’s always the slowest component that affects your throughput:

Slow 5400RPM drive = 60MB/sec
Single 7200RPM drive = 88MB/sec
Singe 10KRPM drive = 120MB/sec
2, 3, 4, etc. – multiplied throughput up to the speed of your interconnect (net, SAS, FC, Thunderbolt, USB-3)

USB-3 = 430MB/sec MAX
eSATA = 520MB/sec MAX
Thunderbolt 1 = 800MB/sec MAX
Thunderbolt 2 = 1.54GB/sec MAX
SAS 6Gb = 580MB/sec per channel MAX
SAS 12GB = 1.1GB/sec per channel MAX
FC 8Gb = 775MB/sec MAX
FC 16Gb = 1.52MB/sec MAX

1GbE Network = 88MB/sec
10GbE Network = 920MB/sec

A 1 drive, 7200RPM drive will do 88MB/sec on any of those connections
An 8 drive, 7200RPM RAID 0 chassis that COULD do 700MB/sec connected via Thunderbolt 2 would top out at 700MB/sec, Thunderbolt 1 would top out at 700MB/sec, and via USB-3 would top out at 430MB/sec.
A 4 drive, 7200PM RAID 0 chassis that could do 352 MB/sec would run at 352MB/sec regardless of the interconnect layer.

* all numbers are ±5% and come from real world lab tests.”

What a beautifully compact and efficient “factoid.” Maybe Tim Wilson should encourage you to think about putting this in an FAQ at the top of this forum (and possibly others too)???

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

[Tim Jones] “The point is that if you can’t read the data from the source disk faster than the tape drive can write, the tape drive will suffer from underruns which causes shoe-shining and slows the writes even further.”

Love the term “shoe-shining” Tim, can you define that term for me so I can use it properly?

TIA,
David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Nothing in our business is completely automatic, however there are innumerable hardware and software solutions that make archiving easier, faster, and safer. However, there’s no one who can fight your battle with management if your boss is stuck on the lowest cost, least secure solution, and unwilling to finance a better, more robust, and more secure solution.

At the very least, you should be backing up to two “nearline” hard drives in addition to your online drive/RAID – in this case nearline means hard drives that aren’t required to be fast enough for editing, and are thus less expensive than your online storage.

If you routinely reedit older projects and need to store/restore entire projects, then you should be thinking about the most robust longterm archive solution, which is LTO tape backup.

First however, look at the best software solutions and see what’s available – The Tolis Group and Archiware offer very nice solutions for both archiving to disk and tape. Check out their solutions and see what works with your workflow, then come back here for further help and discussion – you’ll get input from lots of knowledgeable folks, including some of the manufacturers.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

You can deliver a ProRes file… While Windows machines cannot encode to Apple ProRes, they can decide (or play back) ProRes.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Interesting!!! That is 2X as fast as the OWC 6G SSD I’m running on my older 2008 Mac Pro. It appears that Greg is absolutely correct, in that it’s probably running at either 1.5G speed.

Since mine is only my boot drive I’m not overly concerned, as it is twice as fast as a single spinning disk, however, it is somewhat surprising that it can’t perform up to 6G specs like many spinning disks can. For example, two newer 6G Hitachi striped together as RAID 0 deliver approx 370MB/sec, which is way faster than any two 1.5 or 3G drives striped as RAID 0.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Hey Warren, will you please run either the AJA or BlackMagic Disk Speed Test on your new SSD and let me kniw what you are getting?

TIA,
DRW

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

You should have an icon on your toolbar that looks like a cloud… Click on that and then click on the Apps button – you should see all of your Adobe apps and their status – if it says update, then do the update on any app you wish to update.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.