Final Cut Express - ? I/O intensive ?

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Is Final Cut Express/Pro an I/O intensive app?

 

[ViRGE]

Yes, particularly if any of the video is HD. There's a reason people build RAID arrays to deal with video editing.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Ok, Thanks, that's good to know. I aint ready to drop 300$ on an 80g SSD Intel drive for editing AVCHD. I'll stick with this 300 Vraptor

 

[ViRGE]

SSDs aren't usually used in video editing - they're fast but they're also small. Since video is heavily linear (even if the editing system is not) the SSD advantage of fast random access times is not really an advantage here. So a Vraptor or a RAID 0/5/6/10 array are the best ways to go.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

If there's a way to run the onboard RAID controller on a UD3R & Hackintosh, I'll give it a whirl

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Can anyone answer me this. A guy on DVXuser forums said FCE doesn't natively support AVCHD and it changes the format to Apple Intermediate Quicktime Files...???... I thought the file stayed in AVCHD/h.264

 

[sjwaste]

AVCHD is really processor-intensive to decode. Usually, editing formats (AIQ is probably one of those) sacrifice compression for decoding speed. Otherwise, jumping around in the video is going to be really difficult.

It'll be a bit lossy depending on how good the source video was, but you can always re-encode the final product to AVC.