Thomas Morter-laing
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It depends what iMac you currently have, but Chris is correct above, you get a LOT more for your money with a new iMac, in terms of power as well as a few other things. If you really does need to be a Macbook pro, any will technically do, as the new cores are all pretty good, especially for ‘consumer’ grade stuff, however (again as Chris has said) always get the most you can within your budget if you are an editor. IMO if this means saving another 3 months to get even 0.2Ghz more processor power, its usually worth it (the Processor is really what takes care of the rendering).
Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010——————————
Thanks if you can help 😀
——————————Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
Im grateful for the response, but that didn’t help at all- that post seems to be in regard to orange flash frames, but if you read mine you’ll see that’s not the issues…
Tom Morter-Laing
Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010——————————
Thanks if you can help 😀
——————————Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
Some useful info here guys, thanks.
Incidentally I guess Thunderbolt is the thing which essentially made the iMac professional- especially in December when Sonnet are releasing a thunderbolt- express card adapter. Then all you need to do is add an express card hub and buy a whole bunch of IO adapters (not cheap) and you almost have a Mac Pro, minus some of the processing power and upgradeability…. 😀
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
Thanks Shane, but I’m not sure that’s quite what I meant-
The timecodes will be the same at the end. It’s like this-
-Download crud, watermarked version of lots of Stock video (low res)
-Transcode it and upres it…? for easier editing from flv to …?
-Edit the above in a timeline with sequence settings …?
-Finish edit and download high res versions of all iStock footage which made it to the final cut
-Reconnect all iStock clips on timeline to the 1080p high quality ones. —the reconnect process is the bit I’m fine with, the timecodes will be the same because it’s the same footage, just higher res; and the title is usually the same just with something like “1080HQ” in the end which I’ll just remove with an Automator rename.My problems are the “…?” bits above, and the fact that of I keep the original clips at their current res, when it comes to reconnecting the better quality versions will be bigger than the setting on the timeline…
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
Cool thanks everyone- does anyone know if there’s any Apple utilities to somehow view the hardware raid disks?
Also (I know this seems silly) but is it possible to somehow check to see information on the RAID such as the stripe size? I don’t want to control it, but I have a hardware RAID I put together myself but it sometimes takes about 15 seconds to mount on the desktop- wanna see what information I can get about it….😀
Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
So in terms of speed, (nothing else), Apple may as well have just put an esata connection on the back of the iMacs right? I understand peripherals etc, but even with an 15 SSD drive RAID all its going to do is go the Sata max speed, because the internal hard drive is connected to the motherboard with Sata?
Presumably theyll update that in the future….
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
If you only need to view, I would ALWAYS suggest trying VLC on the PC- quicktime on PC isnt the best…but then, it is a PC…
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
“IMO that’s a confusing way of putting it as seek time is only part of the performance equation.”
Sorry! :D:D“When a file is saved on striped drives it’s split into blocks and those blocks are recorded alternately on the drives.”
Cool so even though in some instances seek time may not be improved, its still going to be faster because of this?
Choosing the right stripe size for an array is a compromise – smaller size blocks are better for transfer performance but are poorer for seek times than bigger ones. So it’s possible to optimise the stripe size of an array to get better performance for either lots of little files or fewer but larger files.
Cool- OK so possibly a tricky question, but is there an optimum/ recommended size for a FCP video editor? And will it generally always be faster anyway (than a standard drive)?
Incidentally, do you know how this is controlled? Ie in Disk Utility? And what about something like a G-Tech G-Raid where its already set up, is there a way of setting it up to be better?
——Further apologies for stupidity, RAID is something Im still trying to get my head around completely- I understand it’s uses, but not the specifics of the technology.
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
I appreciate this thread isnt exactly new any more, but might be worth a look at this:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresscard34thunderbolt.html😀
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
Just out of interest, isnt RAID 0 technically much faster? RAID 5 just offers redundancy (which is obviously important for some, but just wondering).
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.