William Carr
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I’m running 10.11.6 El Capitan and PPro 2017, just short of the very latest update which I’ll install tonight.
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I have travelled and edited 4K with a portable bus-powered RAID 0, and sometimes a portable external bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD.
And if you’re indoors somewhere in your travels where you can plug something in to a power outlet, there are many small-size RAID 0 choices.And as I mentioned if you transcode your clips to an intraframe format, that is much less processor-intensive for your Mac to manage.
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I’m editing on MBPRO of similar specs and age w 4K regularly.
One difference is I transcode all my camera clips to ProRes and that becomes my media.
Reason being I find the intraframe format gives me smooth playback and fast operation with PPRO. I’m a long time Final Cut user from the pre-X days so the transcode is no issue to me and these days doesn’t take too long.All my media is accessed from- and video previews are rendered to- external RAIDs (SSD and not) via Thunderbolt and USB 3. I use both RAID 0 and 5 depending on complexity of project.
Suggest you update to latest PPRO and try a RAID if you haven’t yet.
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Thank you much!
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Thank you Simon…
I deleted the app in the effort to remove them… my lesson learned is research first, action second! -
Thanks very much Ivan, this info is a great step for me to start using PPro as a key business tool!
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That’s excellent info, thank you!
If I’m not creating preview files, then it seems like the version I’ve rendered in my sequence is already superior in spec to the ProRes 422 I usually export as a “master”.
How would I export that sequence “preview” with its awesome spec– what format is that?
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Thank you Ivan, that’s very clear! It made me realize I have one more question if I may–
After I render a sequence of color-corrected, scaled camera-native H.264 clips, it plays smoothly and looks sharp. But what am I watching exactly, a proxy of some kind? Because if I then export the rendered sequence that can take a while too.
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If you’re starting with a new blank sequence then use the method above to create a sequence that matches the format of your source clips. As long as all those ProRes LT files are the same characteristics, you shouldn’t have to render until you do something with them that needs it.
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Thanks for the response, those are good points!