Hey, you forgot to tell people to make sure and plug the external SSD into the fastest USB port that they have on their computer. Because you always use Macs, you might forget that other people may still have some slower USB ports on their computers. And, you will get the best results if the external SSD is compatible with Thunderbolt 3 or 4 and you can plug it into a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port.
Hi you mentioned at the end there will be errors if the cache external SSD is not connected. In this case, would it be possible to regenerate the cache files on another external SSD or internal SSD and continue the project? Maybe if the 1st cache SSD is lost or faulty? Thank you!
Is there any easy way to calculate just how much cache & proxy space one would need, based upon the total length of all one's clips and the file format chosen for proxies and caches? Preferably, something right in Davinci Resolve, but some kind of web-calculator or small app would do. Yes, I know, people can look up the file format's MB/minute of footage, and do all the math themselves. But, you know how people are. We want something simpler and quicker. That is what we invented computers for in the first place, you know. In lieu of that, do you have just some general guidelines as to the number of terabytes per hour of clips? Is a 1 TB external SSD going to fill up too fast to be useful?
Hey film simplified. I noticed a bug in Davinci Resolve when applying noise reduction, my render times on M2 Pro mac mini increase into ridiculous times - up to 1 day, sometimes 8-10 hours with a little bit of noise reduction applied. When I turn off noise reduction the render only takes one hour (barely one hour). Have you encountered such bug? My files are already caching into external SSD drives.
Wow! That's a great idea thx. Btw I have a question. I'm a documentary filmmaker and I'm using p4k and 6k, both @ 5:1 compression, I need a pretty powerful computer. I know MAC is a beast but to get a good one I think I'll need something like m3 max or ultra which costs a lot. Compared to PC with specs like i9 14th gen, 128gib ram, rtx 4090,... The question is do I need that much? P.S: I don't want to proxy or whatever
Alert, There should be a distinction between Mac Studio with M1 or M2 machine, the workflow will be store in your internal SSD, external has too much throughput, so there will be a bottleneck.
Very useful information. I agree with you. Ideally your external SSD is hooked up to the fastest port on your machine. Do you have recommendations for a fast, reliable, inexpensive external SSD?
