FCPX question...will thunderbolt drives help????

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tayproductions

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I am editing on an iMac i5 with 8gb of ram. I am currently working on a project with 4 cam multicam project. I have to use the proxy media to edit it. Would a thunderbolt drive allow me to edit 4 streams without using proxy media? Or, do I need to look at getting an i7 to allow me to do this?

Thanks!
 
Yes it would.. where is your media stored at the moment..I use a raided thunderbolt array and it flies multi cam no problem (raided for speed).
 
Currently, it is on a firewire 800 drive, but I can not tell if the lag is because of the firewire or the processor speed. I have the same lag when I put the files on the internal drive. I know thunderbolt is faster than the SATA drive. I sure would like to just spend money on a new drive if it will help vs a new computer.

Thanks for your help
 
Suggest you buy a thunderbolt raid system, set up (raided) for speed..the performance will exceed the performance of a single hardrive even if its connected by thunderbolt
 
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biggest thing you can do is to make sure you have optimize media for multi cam set. I edited 3 streams on a mac mini i7 and it was pretty choppy until it did the optimization thing. Your graphics card / Open CL may make a difference so get a machine with a decent one - think you need the i7 iMac to get the 2gb option.

I am using thunderbolt to esata adaptor but I still had problems with playback until it optimized the media. One stream of my media was 1080p60, other just 1080p24.
 
T'bolt drive will make a huge difference. 16GB RAM will make a significant difference. Upgrading to an i7 CPU iMac will also improve performance. How much money do you have to spend?

T'bolt to eSATA? Then you're not getting T'bolt speed, you're getting the much slower eSATA speed.
 
Is there a good solution for a Thunderbolt SSD RAID? I am interested in something like the Caldigit T2 with a couple 512gb SSDs, but it doesn't look like it's out yet and there's no pricing info.
 
BenB said:
I can't see spending $1k for next to no storage space, no matter how fast it is.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10549
http://www.nlegear.com/caldigit-t2-raid-960gb-ssd-thunderbolt.html
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Stay clear of those Lacie drives. THey only pack 5400rpms at that size and are loud as hell. The Gdrive TB's are much better and silent as hell.

I agree on the SSD drives. $2000 for not even a TB of space? SSD's are great for your operating system if you need to boot quickly. Too expensive at this point. They will come down as the market heads that way, but wait until then.

I have the 4TB and 8TB Gtechnology drives and they purr along quite nicely.
 
I spent two weeks editing on someone else's 2011 maxed out MBP with a LaCie 1TB (7200rpm) T'bolt drive. No real noise, and it screamed, fantastic performance.

Over that weekend, someone came in with a 2TB LaCie drive (5200rpm) and that drive was really impressive, super fast, and no real noise.
 
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