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Thomas Prunty
January 21, 2011 at 10:49 pm in reply to: SSD or HDD RAID for FinalCut

You’re right.
Thomas Prunty
January 21, 2011 at 6:53 pm in reply to: SSD or HDD RAID for FinalCut

You “obviously” don’t know my budget. I know how much an SSD drive costs and if you read my initial post I never asked about the price of an SSD drive. I asked “Whats faster?” I just so happen to have a rich daddy who will buy me ANYTHING! 😛

Since youre so quick to dish out advice, let me toss one out for you: Don’t “assume” anything. Oh also, hollywood isn’t about the creativity anymore (Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Year One, etc)

If you don’t know the answer to a question, you can say so. No shame in that! Oh by the way, Michael Moore wants his site back 😉
Thomas Prunty
January 20, 2011 at 10:32 pm in reply to: SSD or HDD RAID for FinalCut

Thank you Jean. While I appreciate the other guys “attempting” to add input – my question was not “should I get creative?” It was, what will make my system faster? An SSD or a RAID? So that being said, an SSD for media/scratch is not ideal whereas an HDD RAID is better?

Thanks mate.
Thomas Prunty
January 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Mac Pro CPUs

Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. So basically rule of thumb, encode everything to ProRes! Im assuming ProRes compression doesn’t hurt the video quality (ruin colour, cause colour smearing, bad compression, etc.)
Thomas Prunty
January 18, 2011 at 12:36 am in reply to: Mac Pro CPUs

Excellent video. Thanks for the link. So Im curious, does that mean the only codec Final Cut works with natively is ProRes? Or does it work with others as well?
Thomas Prunty
January 17, 2011 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Mac Pro CPUs

Im curious, when you say FInalCut doesn’t support H.264, what do you mean exactly? For instance, I can manipulate, view, etc. those H.264 files with seemingly no issues. Is there something I’m missing? Also what ProRes should I use? There seem to be various different ProRes’s

Thank you
Thomas Prunty
January 17, 2011 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Media on primary or scratch

Haha, yes I have plenty of backups. Ill keep scratch and media on a firewire 800 ext disk then. Im curious, would I notice a big performance difference if I purchased a RAID external firewire disk? Or for that matter an internal RAID? Thanks guys
Thomas Prunty
January 17, 2011 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Mac Pro CPUs

How do I go about importing as ProRes? I believe the 7D (and HVX for that matter) take the video as .MOV and when I import into FinalCut it automatically uses compression as H.264 in the Sequence Timeline Settings.
Thomas Prunty
January 17, 2011 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Mac Pro CPUs

Thank you for the information. How important would you say a RAID is?