Floh Peters
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[jim brodie] “Would you recommend 24 gigs of RAM and what brand of SSD drive would you go with? I’ve heard there are high failure rates with some of these drives lately.”
24 Gigs of RAM is plenty. Depending on what you want to run besides Media 100, I would suggest 8 or 16 GB. 4x4GB would be my recommendation, and you would still have 4 Slots left empty for future upgrades.
We use Samsung SSDs and are happy with them, so far.
[jim brodie] “Also, I’m thinking of staying in OS 10.6.8 for now. I’m right in the middle of a large project.”
Again, this depends on the apps you want to use. Nothing to say against 10.6.8 or 10.7.5 with Media 100, depending on which version you want to use. 10.7.5 is extremely reliable for us as well, and still works with most modern applications (e.g. Adobe CC).
[jim brodie] “Does the older version Mac Pro 4.1 run 64 bit programs efficiently?”
Only the first Mac Pro systems cannot boot in 64 bit, since while the CPUs are 64 bit the EFI (Firmware) is 32 bit only. You won´t have 64 bit problems with the system.
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Here is a Geekbench result for your Mid 2010 system, and here is one for the early 2009. At least from these tests it looks like the early 2009 8 core system is much faster in Multi-Core tasks than the 4core system. And since Media 100 and RED is pretty well optimized for Multicore tasks (of course, always depending on what you are doing; there are areas that are better optimized and areas that are worse), I would go with the older (and even cheaper) system.
If you really like speed, add a SSD as your boot drive. You will never want to go back, especially with relatively “light” applications like Media 100. Startup and app launch times are great this way.
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Use ProRes, or ProRes HQ if you want to have somewhat larger files and (in nearly all cases) more or less unnoticeable better quality.
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You can download them here:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1396
And an (old) instruction how to install them is here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/4/865993
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Glad you solved it
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Avid does not do Blend/Transfer modes natively. Easiest way there is to go through AvidFX (Red). 😉
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Hmmm, if you want to do a batch export (range), you cannot do that in a single pass anyway, since the batch export window will look at your set range on your timeline when you press the “start” button in the export window, as far as I know…
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[Jaeson Koszarsky] “I encounter this problem with Media100 & RED on a daily basis.”
Jaeson,
the big question here is if you have a reliable way to reproduce this problem, like a step-by-step explanation how to cause this problem reliably. It is extremely difficult to fix an error that shows up only very unreliably, because you cannot be sure if you actually affected something or if you are only lucky right now. I spend quite some time in RED, and I only see the problem occasionally, so at least I am not sure what actually causes the issue…
If you have an idea, please let me know, and chances are good that we actually can find a fix for the issue.
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No, not without RED