Santanu Bhattacharjee
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I haven’t tried this. But may work if you have the same audio in both the footage. Put both footage one above other on the timeline. Scene detect and cut the shorter video. Then, do a sync video based on audio. The clips from the shorter video will align to the times of longer one. Now you may cut the longer video and remove the unwanted clips.
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True, I agree. Running multiple applications and real time playback is more important. I can always prepare my coffee or snooze during renders.
However, thinking about the second option, after some months the tech of DDR5 might change and mixed RAMs may cause more trouble than a solution. I may not find identical RAMs as tech evolves.
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Chris is right, often hardware encoding is unpredictable. Try the software encoding.
Santanu
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For your needs, 1 x 500 GB SSD for OS, Apps and Media Cache is modest and more than good for short format HD and occasional 4K workflow. If you work on long formats, multiple layers, heavy graphics and multiple Apps, 1TB SSD or 2 x 500 SSD is preferable. OS Apps and Cache could be on the same drive so long as your work flow is not choking the memory. Once the OS starts paging file, you are in trouble.
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This is because the OS takes time to fetch the file. Once fetched, the read is seamless. I had suggested to Adobe to use a read ahead algorithm. Once you play a sequence, it is obvious that the next clip will most likely be played. Unless you are jumping the play head back and forth. IMHO, Adobe should implement this feature.
However, 10 seconds is a bit too long. Please check if you have a slow ailing HDD or a fragmented one. You may need to defragment it.
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Thanks for your suggestions. I recently interacted with a Backblaze personnel to realize that backblaze is essentially designed for home users and not for video professional who have unusually large files to back up. The process of uploading large files with too many checksum in Backblaze is unfit for video professionals.
I am going the bare drives way. Also tried creating a PC NAS with those, so that the data is always available. (2 birds with 1 arrow – Backup+Real-time editing). Discovered that they are good as a backup solution only. Not so good for real-time editing across network. Though a 1Gb Ethernet suffices, even a 7200 rpm struggles to transfer data at barely 50MB/s. For networked real-time access only an SSD works fine with ~100MB/s
<font face=”inherit”>Therefore my current solution is all live project data / footage are stored on SSDs on a 1Gb networked server. On completion of a project they move from SSDs to the archive drives manually. The backup app, slowly makes a copy on old drives at its own pace. A cloud app on the same server also helps make the data available to team members for remote.
No RAID. I found many people get in trouble when they do not find identical drives after 5-7 years. Using unmatched drives affects performance. So separate backup copy is better. More manageable.
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Sorry guys for not being around for long. Thanks for the overwhelming response from all. There are some great suggestions while I guess I may not have explained my scenario in the best way.
LTO is out, because although 95% of my data is not re-used often, I have old clients who come back to me after very long. So I some times need to revisit / re-edit their data. So I cannot catalog or update a serial device as often. Too much time consuming.
Backblaze offers UNLIMITED Personal backup just for $60 / year / per PC. Not B2. I need just archival for my workstation. At 128MBPs broadband the estimate says ~40 days to backup the entire 40 TB. I can wait…Not sure of restore though. Need to ensure periodically that backups are in good health.
NAS – Initial cost is higher with 10 x 4 TB HDD. May need 2 boxes for that many HDD. Will need additional UPS. May need to keep at home during lock downs to ensure all is working fine. Data recovery may be costlier for LINUX file system as against a PC NAS. Works as a cloud server too for teams to collaborate.
PC as NAS – Has all benefits of a boxed NAS, in fact much cheaper. I have the required expertise to set it all up. Just that the foot print is bigger with mice, keyboard, monitor and an UPS for keeping at home. With 24 x 7 powered on will bother others at home.
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Select only the P. Apply a bass cut around < 200Hz. It should do the job.
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Nice. That way you remind your clients – “hey look, time for some new work.”
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Chis , thanks for your insight. However, would you charge your returning customer the same, if he asks for the entire data and plans to go elsewhere to re-edit / reuse that?