[Kasey Gay]

Additionally, I’m noting that FCPX won’t let me expressly create a 120FPS timeline. It tops out at 60.
Does this cause any issues with my current objective?

[Kasey Gay]

Hey bob,

I’m swinging back through one last time. Your patience is appreciated.

So I had someone suggest THIS to me : https://www.popphoto.com/new-owc-drive-dock-allows-for-drive-swapping-during-big-photo-and-video-projects

OWC drive dock with 7200 SATA disks. I hit a friend up who tells me that he’s working off a similar setup, and after I asked him to run your Blackmagic tests, he’s telling me he’s getting 210 MB’s a sec transfer speed.

The drive dock and 2 SATA 7200’s is almost $500 and is only. equipping him with 200mb/s. Is there any sane reason why someone would go with that, rather than the Thunder Bay 4? It seems like old tech if you can 500-700 with the Thunderbay.

Thanks man.

[Kasey Gay]

Does something like this sound reasonable?
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB2IVT04.0S/

Again, forgive me. I’m building my knowledge base here.
This says it runs up to 700+- MB read write.
I’m guessing that’s plenty for editing. But when the computer says it’s writing 2000 to the on-board disk, is there a sane scenario would I ever need a pipeline that let me write 2000mbs to a RAID or other external solution?

Thanks team

[Kasey Gay]

Hey guys,

Thanks for the time and attention. Bob I took your advice and I think my results are definitely illuminating.

2002 MB a second writing to my onboard disk.
80 when reading/writing to my external hard drives.

Gleaning what I can from your advice so far, it sounds like I need to go spend some money on a firebolt compatible drive with faster disk spin speeds.

Boy oh boy have I been doing this wrong.
Thanks for sparing some time on me guys.

[Kasey Gay]

Hey Bob,

I’ve used FCPX for years. I’ve been using After Effects for a couple of months now so I’ve been eye balling making the jump over to premiere for the dynamic link with the adobe suite.

The hard drives Ive been using are USB-3. Obviously I need to make a change.

So when you refer to keeping the media cache on the boot drive for Premiere, I should be storing both my boot files AND my footage on a fast external, and then leaving my projects on a different drive? I’m guessing I don’t want to be caching a huge amount of footage on my actual internal SSD, so I’m reading that as saying to move my boot AND media cache to a fast external hard drive.

Thanks for the time bob.

[Kasey Gay]

Thanks bob,

I should’ve elaborated that I’m about to be working with an external recorder shooting pro-res for commercial work. I’m trying to go ahead and get a jump on my storage solutions and understand the logic behind “store media files on the SDD and keep your project files over here” before I run into issues down the road, so I’m trying to build some understanding.

Thanks!

[Kasey Gay]

Thanks Jeff!
Appreciate the answer. Glad to know I mess around and occasionally get something right. 🙂

[Kasey Gay]

Craig thanks so much for the breakdown man.
THat’s a lot of info broken down into concise packages. I appreciate you taking the time to illustrate that for a novice.

Much appreciated and much learned.

-Kasey

[Kasey Gay]

Thanks man!
Appreciate the time. DIdn’t know if the heat might do something to the glass, but ti seems to be alright.

-Kasey

[Kasey Gay]

Thanks for all the help guys.
I think I’m getting a better sense of it all. It’s particularly useful to know what moire means, and that I’ve got compression issues rather than moire. One less thing to wrestle with anyway.

I appreciate the generosity with your time.

I also took you guys up on the advice to look into neat video. It’s been useful to me so far, but I’m struggling with it a bit.

Particularly, I thought I’d been told to ‘Denoise’ video before grading. But it would seem that applying neat video makes color grading nearly impossible (system lag) on a clip that has neat video running….

Yikes. :/ Thanks for the time gentlemen.