[Melissa]

Vince, If we went with a Macbook, would the retina Macbook also be a heavy load on the GPU?

[Melissa]

Thanks Alex! This is very helpful.

[Melissa]

Thanks! If we were to go with an iMac what kind of drive would serve us best?

Serial ATA hard drive or flash storage or Fusion Drive?

[Melissa]

Thanks. What is the challenge with an air?

[Melissa]

How much headroom does a RAID 5 need? I know that I already have less access to Gigs when I set it up this way, but for performance, do I need to give myself even less?

Thanks for all the help!

[Melissa]

Thanks for the direct clarity! I’m looking at G-Drive RAIDs… Do you have a preference or recommendation?

[Melissa]

What connection would you recommend for ProRes? (In an ideal world..)

[Melissa]

We are working from 2 or 3 machines. The lesser of the bunch is a MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM with OS 10.7.5

Our media is stored on a few external hardrives, mostly G-Tech drives that are connected with firewire 800. Some are daisy-chained, others are plugged directly into the machine. (Actually, that would be the case for our more powerful tower. In the case of the macbook, all but one are daisy-chained.)

Thanks.

[Melissa]

Just to be clear, I don’t mean how long FCP will actually let a sequence be. Is 5 hours the limit for having a sequence that playback and edits with out causing a fuss to the system?

Thanks!

[Melissa]

I used the built in one, which worked fine for my purposes for every other set up but this one…