What is your Video Editing workflow and do you use any utilities?

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analogs

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What is your workflow when video editing?

I am trying to figure out the best workflow when my SSD drives are not large enough to keep my project files in there nor do I have the budget to keep adding more SSD to my system.

Do you;
Have a separate HD drive that has all your special effects(ie. transitions), audio(SFX), general B-roll, etc.
Separate Backup/Archive HD drive containing original Project files in one drive.

After shooting a film project, copy the card files to your Backup/Archive HD drive.
Then when working on the project in Premiere or video editing software, copy the original project files to your Project SSD drive and start video editing.
Once you have completed editing the project, do you copy back to the Archive drive all the final files so that you can empty the Project SSD for the next project or do you use some utility software that just copies any new files for that project onto the Archive drive - eg. maybe synctoy?

Do video editing software like Premiere, Resolve, AfterEffects compile and add any new additional materials for the project into the project's folder so that you do not have to search for the files when transferring it back to the Archive drive?

Is Ethernet networking quick enough to use as additional drives to be used in a project, such as access and use in realtime a HD full of special effects, etc. to use for a project? I see some people networking NAS storage but I am not sure how they are using it in their workflow.

Thanks.
 
I work entirely on HDD's. I don't use SSD's for editing because it's not cost effective enough. Thunderbolt & HDD seems to be working fine so far for most stuff, though things do slow down when there's multiple layers of video.

As for stock assets, they live on my C: drive and get copied into the individual project folders as required, so all media & assets live together on the same hard drive. That way it can be plugged into a different workstation and everything is still in the same place with nothing else requiring re-linking.

Media Cache and previews go to a separate internal HDD which gets cleared regularly.

I'm shooting/cutting 4K Prores.
 
deltoidjohn said:
I work entirely on HDD's. I don't use SSD's for editing because it's not cost effective enough. Thunderbolt & HDD seems to be working fine so far for most stuff, though things do slow down when there's multiple layers of video.

As for stock assets, they live on my C: drive and get copied into the individual project folders as required, so all media & assets live together on the same hard drive. That way it can be plugged into a different workstation and everything is still in the same place with nothing else requiring re-linking.

Media Cache and previews go to a separate internal HDD which gets cleared regularly.

I'm shooting/cutting 4K Prores.
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Thanks for the quick reply.

Do you manually copy the stock assets to each project folder or does the software do it for you?

I presume your on a Mac. What video editing software do you use that makes the most of your workflow setup?
 
I also work in HDD's In may case I have a MAC Pro with 2* 3TB drives in a striped RAID for speed. this give me 6TB to play with and then a NAS (running RAID6) across a duel 1GB ethernet for other storage and backup/archive.

SSD's are not cost effective in the larger sizes of >1Tb

FCPX will put all the assets int to the project file.
 
Assuming a decent NAS and assuming the two 1gb connections are teamed (aggregated) you would be able to get 2gbps or 2000mbps, that should be several streams at even 400mbps each stream. Do you really need the raid 0 striped drives across what is probably only as fast as the network drives?
 
Greg_E said:
Assuming a decent NAS and assuming the two 1gb connections are teamed (aggregated) you would be able to get 2gbps or 2000mbps, that should be several streams at even 400mbps each stream. Do you really need the raid 0 striped drives across what is probably only as fast as the network drives?
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I prefer to edit on the local internal drives. They are fast. If anyone else does anything on the network you can get varying performance. (I am not the only person using the NAS or the network)
 
analogs said:
Do you manually copy the stock assets to each project folder or does the software do it for you?

I presume your on a Mac. What video editing software do you use that makes the most of your workflow setup?
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I manually copy assets as needed.

I'm on both Mac and PC, editing in Premiere Pro. As far as other software for workflow, I'll occasionally use Shotput Pro for transferring media, but only on fast-paced shoots where I'm in the field for multiple days and will likely be re-using the cards. If I'm at home I just drag and drop and manually check everything.
 
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