I'm consolidating a 2-hour sequence of ProRes4444 footage, with an AAF, to send to our colorist. But the consolidation looks like it'll take something like 72 hours (averaging 4 or 5 minutes to copy a clip, 1100 clips). That seems long to me. I was hoping for 8 hours or something. Am I missing something?
MC 6.0.3
OS 10.7.3
iMac 3.1 GHz Core i5
GRaid drives daisy chained firewire
A consolidate is just a file copy. Not even a re-encode. Do you have drive speed issues as effectively all that's happing is media is being copied.
Mind you 2 hours of uncompressed 4444 is a lot of media. Something like 6GB per minute so 120 minutes is close to a TB of data to copy. Plus the additional overheads.
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I'll rearrange my drives on the daisy chain and see if that helps anything.
I think you'll find that's an accurate time frame with your particular drive setup and processing power. Your best bet is to bring the GRAID setup to a more powerful mahcine with esata, or just bite the bullet and let it consolidate.
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