Editing i1080 on a PC with Premier

No? Yes? I need a RAID 0? A SSD?........... some of you guys must be editing, you must know the answer... (the question is considering that I have a lot of RAM, GUP, i7 fast processor....)

Thanks
 
Mike Brent said:
No? Yes? I need a RAID 0? A SSD?........... some of you guys must be editing, you must know the answer... (the question is considering that I have a lot of RAM, GUP, i7 fast processor....)

Thanks
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I assume you mean Premiere Pro CS5. It depends on how many streams of video you want to playback in RT. If you get a card with CUDA you can get several streams of video playing back in RT no sweat, thats when the speed of your hard drive is probably going to let you down. Considerign the size of video I generally recoemend a 4 drive array running RAID 5, that way with 1 tb drives you get 3 tb of usable space, full redundancy and super fast read speeds. If however you are editing on a budget then two 1.5 or 2 tb hard drives in RAID 1 will give you nice read speeds of quite a few layers and you still get redundancy. You dont want to go SSD for video, deffiantely for your boot drive if you can afford it, as it will slash your boot times and software load times, but for the video storage, not a good idea.
 
evanbutson said:
You dont want to go SSD for video, deffiantely for your boot drive if you can afford it, as it will slash your boot times and software load times, but for the video storage, not a good idea.
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What I'm looking for is this - a laptop I could edit on if I want on location, watch dailies etc... but then the real editing to do with an external RAID, using the same laptop.

So I figured that my best bet would be to get an i7 with Nvidia Quadro yada yada yada and one 256 SSD for the system and as the storage for the smaller edits and dailies, and also get an external RAID for the real editing work. Right? I'm not missing anything, am I?
 
Mike Brent said:
What I'm looking for is this - a laptop I could edit on if I want on location, watch dailies etc... but then the real editing to do with an external RAID, using the same laptop.

So I figured that my best bet would be to get an i7 with Nvidia Quadro yada yada yada and one 256 SSD for the system and as the storage for the smaller edits and dailies, and also get an external RAID for the real editing work. Right? I'm not missing anything, am I?
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As far as a laptop goes I dont think any of the NVIDIA cards are on the supported list for Mercury Playback, that being said they will still work really well, an i7 laptop with an NVIDIA card will run footage very nice, however I would make sure the boot drive is at least a 7200 RPM drive
 
NextWaveG said:
I use an Acer Aspire 8940g i7. Works great for editing once I transcode the footage to Cineform. If you want raw DSLR footage editing, get CS5.

This is my workflow:

http://nextwaveg.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-5d-mkii-pc-workflow.html
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Hi Tony,

Thanks for that post, but its lacking on some info. On which drives do you do the edit? Do you use an external raid or right there on this laptop? Is the editing smooth? What drivers do you have there, a SSD or... ? internal raid?

Thanks.....
 
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