[D j Harris]

Hi Chris,

Amazing, that is exactly what I need. I’d seen this Puget site a while back but hadn’t found these benchmarks.

Thanks!

[D j Harris]

Thanks Peter,

The old set I have used is an editors keys one, all good but they’re not CC specific and I don’t think they do stickers any more from what I can see on their website, but I have emailed them to ask!

[D j Harris]

Hi, thanks guys.

Most of our work goes straight to clients in h.264, so I think Cineform is looking good as a ‘house codec’. Been using it for the last week with no problems, and seems to render a bit faster.

Thanks for the advice

[D j Harris]

Hi both,

Thanks for the replies – we’re a small company so we probably have 6-7tb of ‘live’ or recently completed projects on our current system. These would just be backed up to our archive rather than transferred to any new system.

As for SAN or NAS, I’m not bothered really, we’d just go with whatever was best. I just mentioned 10gig ethernet as it seems increasingly more common. Our current system was always referred to as a SAN by the installers so we have carried on calling it that!

Amount of video per year is difficult to ascertain exactly, but we are usually busy and have 2 edit suites that are in constant use and another that is frequently used, plus an one old one for running in tapes. We have just switched from Avid to Adobe CC so we’re still using DNXHD as a best quality house codec, as it’s something we know and trust.

Exports would usually be for web so H.264/5 as MP4. Cameras are Fs7, Blackmagic Cinema, Ex3, PMW320 and assorted old Sony DV cameras. We also do a lot of After Effects work so dynamic linking between Premiere and After Effects would certainly benefit from faster storage.

We do have an archive solution, arrived at after trial and error. This is entirely separate to the main ‘live project’ storage. Cloud backup etc is not feasible for us as we have terrible broadband so any storage solution is purely for live projects. It needs to be reliable of course, and have some level of raid, maybe 3 or 5. But, rushes are saved separately so failure is not a complete disaster.

We’re in the UK and I’m currently looking at the Rockstar Ant II:
https://www.rockstar-data.com/introducing-rockstar-ant/

Look like exactly what we would need, i.e. small quiet, not too expensive and relatively easy to set up. Anyone have any experience of these?

[D j Harris]

Hi Lee,

Just to jump in here, having previously done the copying of files recommended by Matrox to get the MX02 mini working, I’ve just updated to the latest version of CC (just states CC 2017 in the creative cloud manager so not sure on the official version number) and the Matrox is still working as a client monitor output.

[D j Harris]

Hi Peter (and anyone else who has the same problem) – this works! Didn’t have to reinstall anything, just make sure to copy all the files to the right place. Also the filenames in the Matrox download are very long and wouldn’t copy over a network (as the filepath contained to many characters) so I had to put them on the root level of a memory stick to install.

Many thanks for the assist.

[D j Harris]

Hi Peter, thanks, I’ll give that a try.

[D j Harris]

Hi Jason,

Just noticed this thread and I have exactly the same issue – did you ever get a solution to this?

[D j Harris]

Hey Daniel,

Thanks for replying, it’s good to get opinions from others who are already using it.

I’ve always liked the way Adobe stuff is designed, and we use CS5.5 currently (just for AE and PS really) at the moment. I used to use Premiere at Uni (back when it was CS3 I think) so would like to switch to that for editing. The cost isn’t too bad for us – we’re just going to get 2 individual licenses (as we have virtually no broadband in our location and the extra management tools are of little use to us as there are only 2 users). The cost of this compares quite favourably to Avid MC which we use at the moment, because we have to use extra software to get Avid to work over a network so the price per year would be almost the same – but obviously with CC we get After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition etc etc. and the advantage of bridge to work quickly between them.

[D j Harris]

Thanks Joe, good to know.

I think what we’re going to do is use our existing project file structure (just a series of windows folders within folders) to keep projects organised, then the whole thing gets copied over to archive drives when wrapped up, so we should always know where the related Premiere/After Effects/Photoshop etc projects and assets are located. Maybe this won’t work or there’s a better way of doing it but I’ll have to try it and see!