Lenilenapi
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[TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F5F5FF"]I have a music documentary project that involves editing a 5 camera shoot of a 30min piece as one element.
3 cameras are 24P XDCAM EX original that I can convert to Pro Res, and 2 cameras were HDV that have been successfully converted to 24P Pro Res 422
I'd like to edit this in a 5 camera multiclip but have read horror stories on the web about multiclip slowing down on a low power system. I've also read that the problem might be mostly hard drive speed and look up time instead of the processor.
[SUB]I can't change my processor or RAM but given my gear:[/SUB]
A 2008 15" Macbook Pro Intel Core Duo 2.4 MHz / 4G Ram w an external 24" Dell and a Matrox MXO running on OS10.6.8 and FCP 7. I use a dual Sata > expresscard adapter for a bunch of SATA drives and have a dual hot swap enclosure that can be raided as well as some Quad drives that can use the 800 and 400 Firewire inputs.
Would it help to :
- Create a Raid 0 with 2 SATA drives in my dual hot swap enclosure (or even buy a 4 unit Sata hot swap if that would make it much faster)?
- Or would it help to just spread the cameras on different drives and make some Sata and some Firewire?
- And/Or would it help to make the files smaller and use Pro Res LT or even Proxy for off line?
This stuff is entirely new to me . Can I make this work? Any suggestions?[/TD]
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[TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F5F5FF"]I have a music documentary project that involves editing a 5 camera shoot of a 30min piece as one element.
3 cameras are 24P XDCAM EX original that I can convert to Pro Res, and 2 cameras were HDV that have been successfully converted to 24P Pro Res 422
I'd like to edit this in a 5 camera multiclip but have read horror stories on the web about multiclip slowing down on a low power system. I've also read that the problem might be mostly hard drive speed and look up time instead of the processor.
[SUB]I can't change my processor or RAM but given my gear:[/SUB]
A 2008 15" Macbook Pro Intel Core Duo 2.4 MHz / 4G Ram w an external 24" Dell and a Matrox MXO running on OS10.6.8 and FCP 7. I use a dual Sata > expresscard adapter for a bunch of SATA drives and have a dual hot swap enclosure that can be raided as well as some Quad drives that can use the 800 and 400 Firewire inputs.
Would it help to :
- Create a Raid 0 with 2 SATA drives in my dual hot swap enclosure (or even buy a 4 unit Sata hot swap if that would make it much faster)?
- Or would it help to just spread the cameras on different drives and make some Sata and some Firewire?
- And/Or would it help to make the files smaller and use Pro Res LT or even Proxy for off line?
This stuff is entirely new to me . Can I make this work? Any suggestions?[/TD]
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