[Steve Doubledark]

OK, given the very limited nature of my setup; how do I best set up the various enclosures.
Currently, I have OS / Apps on an SSD and I have media on a second SSD.

Do I use one enclosure for Scratch, another enclosure for Previews and output to a third enclosure or do I setup 3 disks in a RAID5, move my files to this enclosure and do all my editing on the RAID? The other enclosures can be re-tasked to back-up duties if they won’t help with my current hardware.

Cheers

[Steve Doubledark]

For security, RAID 5 is a must for storage and backups
I have the storage side of things sorted.

Even a single, 7200RPM disk can saturate that bandwidth
This comment baffles me because when I switched to an SSD for my stills, I noticed a huge improvement in performance. So much so that I could render out huge panorama’s by writing to the SSD whereas on a hdd, the operation would fall over.

I’m only interested in editing HD at the moment so it’s more the disk set up that I’m looking at.

[Steve Doubledark]

Hi Ryan

I agree that colour grading is a very involved speciality. And because it’s so complicated, the tutor needs to start with the assumption that the student knows nothing other than that they need to colour grade some footage.

Having just watched the Youtube videos by MiesnerMedia, I now have a feel for how the process works. Now I’m ready to learn more details. And, for me, a good way would be to work thru a more involved grade where more features are explored. But the features need a reason to be used, rather than a dry explanation.

When I was a kid, a great scientist named Professor Julius Sumner Miller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Sumner_Miller) had a TV program and his catch phrase was “why is it so”. It explained science through demonstrating the science, rather than scribbling formulas on a blackboard.

[Steve Doubledark]

I found this on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orHxxptz2yI

There are 7(?) videos in the series and it shows video editing in PremierePro, audio editing in another app and finally in episode 5 he moves to resolve. Now, the first few episodes are way too long so I skipped through them fairly quickly, but it is at least a real life project that the author is working on.

If only the RippleTraining/Lynda/Colorist Flight School people would structure their videos with a small, not too complicated real-life project to demonstrate how Resolve works. Then, bring in the more in-depth explanations and again do it by showing real-life examples rather than feeding dry “to achieve this, you do this” information.

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[Steve Doubledark]

I’ll resurrect this thread rather than start a new one on the same topic

Two issues I have with most tutorials, is
a) the presenter skips small, seemingly to them, insignificant steps. This causes frustration with the learning process.
b) hours of “you do this here and you do this here” style teaching. A far better way would be (in the case of Resolve) to use a real project and show in detail the workflow.

If you’re an educator, then someone who has teaching skills, should be able to take your notes and teach from those notes.

So, with that in mind; do any of the courses mentioned use this approach ?