gulp. Thanks for the heads up. I guess I'll just have to start looking at the youtube tutorials. Malcolm

hmmm. I started googling for Thunderbolt 3 SSD drive enclosures after reading your post—thank you for clarifying things. Options I've found so far are quite expensive, I guess because to get speed and also redundancy (if that's the right word) you need at least four drives. Anyway, I'll keep looking although I have to ask—and

such good and helpful information. I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with an external drive (because of his 10TB mountain of files) but at least I now know it's doable. I'll try to get an SSD external drive, for my transcoded files, if I can afford it. And yes, I now remember, I've seen threads (for years) about getting a new Apple

[quote user="morsey"]I went with 2TB because I run the media internally[/quote] morsey, I really appreciate hearing from someone who's editing with the very machine I'm wanting to buy! I'm curious about your statement above, that you run the media internally. Does this mean that your transcoded (or imported) Avid files are on your

[quote user="Pat Horridge"] I'd say 32GB is enough but what about in 2 years time? [/quote] As in... when everyone's editing 8K? (arghhhh). The local Apple store where I live has a 16" MBP model with 32GB of RAM, which is $500 cheaper (Cdn.) than the 64GB version. But it's got a 2TB SSD internal drive, which is a $500 upgrade

Hi there, I've given up trying to pull my 2010 Mac Pro, and/or 2013 MacBook Pro, kicking and screaming, into this new 4K world. Firewire and USB-2 ports just aren't up to it. In case it matters, btw, I'm running Media Composer v. 8.9.4 So... if I get a new MacBook Pro*, I'm wondering about a couple of things: 1. is 32GB enough RAM, or

Jason, thank you so much. A USB 3 card that can fit into my Mac Pro sounds like a good place to start. I'll study some of your other advice before acting on it—eg. dragging the mxf files into an Avid bin rather than importing them (which is what I've always done) because, if I'm following your logic properly, this saves all the metadata

Jason, thank you for your advice. Here's my tweak: because all the 4K footage is on a 10TB USB drive—which is USB-3 but because my Mac Pro only has USB-1 any drive connected runs at very slow USB-1 speeds—I'm thinking of connecting the USB-3 drive to my 2013 MacBook Pro, and using the free version of Resolve to transcode (or downconvert

I don't know if my version of Media Composer (8.9.4) can handle 4K, Dom, but I'm pretty sure my mid-2010 Mac Pro can't. I have 24GB pf RAM, and an SSD startup disk, Radeon 5870 graphics card... maybe those aren't bad, but connectivity is very old USB (not USB 2 or 3 or C) and firewire ports. I've only ever used my four internal SATA

Hi there, Can anyone recommend the best way for me to downconvert 10TB of 4K footage (yes, it's a lot) to HD, so I can edit it using my old Mac Pro? I'm thinking I should downconvert to AVC-Intra 100 because that's what I've been using in Media Composer, it seems to me. I'm hoping there's a software solution that isn't too