Thanks for your words of encouragement, Alan! I have a feeling my solution is either: 1) simple but not really satisfactory; or 2) satisfactory but not simple at all.

My only saving grace is that I told the client in advance of the shot: “If the sun gets bright during the shoot, that profile with the wall of windows is likely to be badly…

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Hi All:

I’m just wondering if any of you have suggestions for how to possibly color correct a shot better than what I’m doing. We shot in front of big glass windows that were bright. We did not use LOG (trying to remember why, but it didn’t happen!!).

I’ve attached three shots. Camera 1 was on a tripod, so here I didn’t have too much trouble. I did…

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@Joby and @Doug: again, thanks for your responses. @Joby, you moved a little into tech speak in the second half of your response, but I will try and interpret! @Doug, I think I need to get back in touch with LaCie and perhaps make some inquiries along the lines of what you’re mentioning (and perhaps Joby’s too, once I’ve figured out what he’s…

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@Doug and @Joby – thanks for further thoughts on this. I think I’m going to have to go back in this thread and review. The problem persists!

It seems totally unpredictable. No real discernible difference in the nature of my projects (all basically doc-style stuff…no heavy effects etc). Sometimes I go the day with no problems, and then other…

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Hilarious…I sure do apologize for causing any unwanted eye issues! 😃

And not to worry – I DEFINITELY have back-ups of all media and data. All over the place.

Very interesting what you say about the format of the drive. Your energy saver idea seems to be related to Intel Macs, but I’m using an M1 PowerBook.

I will absolutely hold onto your…

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Ah, now all of this is beginning to make sense. BUT if the SATA drives only deliver 500 MB/sec at RAID 0, then it shouldn’t have really mattered if initially I was plugged into the USB 3.1 rather than the thunderbolt, right? (assuming I wasn’t using any of the other ports, which I wasn’t)

For the last couple of weeks, I was doing fine with my…

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Helpful again! So speed should be the same if TB cables are aligned with TB ports and the same for USB. Did not know.

Of course, this STILL leaves me with questions. Don’t feel obliged to answer…mostly rhetorical questions…I might try to find answers on Google, though likely that will leave me more confused 😀

If the speed can be the same…

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Thank you for the response, Neil. As a courtesy to those who might come across this post and wonder what happened, I share an update. And I’m a bit embarrassed to admit it.

Long and short, the LaCie <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>does work just fine with my footage. I’m not going to call it crazy fast, but good enough for…

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Not a bad idea, Alan. Right now I’m using SanDisk Extreme Portable, but that’s actually the reason why I started to investigate other options. It seems both this drive and the G Drive max out at 2TB. I need something that has greater capacity. So that’s why the dock seemed appealing – buy the “bare” SDD drives at lower cost (and larger than 2TB),…

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Helpful again.

Following up on your note from your first response, in which you suggested that the drive might need a settings adjustment to avoid going to sleep, I did a little sleuthing. Sure enough, others were having the same issue, and one recommendation was to send a command through Apple’s Terminal app to instruct the drive to remain…

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Glenn: curious which QNAP model in the ecosystem you’re using. I don’t really need a NAS drive (though I imagine I could find ways to take advantage of that option), but the <b data-selenium=”productTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>QNAP TVS-872XT 8-Bay NAS Enclosure one gets plenty of positive reviews on B&H. AND it looks…

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BTW, I latched onto the multidock idea because a review of the LaCie wasn’t crazy about it for editing and suggested the multidock. Not sure was a “SATA 3 SSD” is…

If you want speed, the BlackMAgic Multidock2 with SSD drives is really fast. Format with Mac Raid settings and it will amaze.. I transferred a terabyte between the 12 TB 2 big and the…

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Thanks for your thoughts, Glenn. Didn’t know about greater speed with extra drives. Something to consider, as well as Qnap. And yes, codecs matter. In this case, I actually am using sony mxfs!

I am using a MacBook Pro with OSX 12.2 to edit. Mostly doing HD stuff, but more folks are asking for 4K, so I got myself a LaCie 36TB 2big Dock 2-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID Array to accommodate the greater storage needs. I used the Thunderbolt connection with the array, of course. I left it as a RAID 0, thinking this would give me the most speed

But…

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Good to know! So MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip. And you’re doing 4K with it, I presume?

I will just add: I think it’ll be much easier to chase down work as a video producer, rather than as an editor. I started as a freelance editor, and it was hard to string together enough work. And that’s when I decided to produce AND edit (I hire freelancers to be my filming crew as needed). If you learn how to make your own videos – soup to nuts…

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Until this point, all of my clients have been perfectly happy with HD video and my old Mac Pro has worked just fine. But now my hand has been forced and a client is insisting on recording in 4K. What I currently have:

Mac Pro mid 2012, Quad core Intel Xeon processor, 16 GB of memory, ATI Radeon graphics card. I should also point out that I have two…

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Really? I have usb 3, but a quick google search tells me that thunderbolt 3 (assuming the laptops my camera people are using have thunderbolt 3 ports) has a transfer speed of 40Gbps.

Transferring with a usb c drive attached to my computer, according to Google, is 10 Gbps. And, besides, even if I have a usb c attached to my usb 3 port, aren’t I…

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Thanks for the response, Neil. I’m basically getting the thunderbolt 3 to make my camera people happy, so they can download their footage faster using THEIR newer laptops with my thunderbolt drive.

Until the M1 version of the Mac Pro comes out, my process is painful. Thunderbolt 3 > adaptor > early 2015 laptop > USB 3 drive and then plug that USB 3…

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I know I’m about 10 years late to the game. I’ve been using SLOW USB 2 drives to transfer media at the end of my film shoots and I was able to get away with this for awhile, but now I need to up my game and actually use the two thunderbolt ports on my MacBook Pro Early 2015 to make things a little quicker.

So I buy a current thunderbolt drive…

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