- #MAC PRO ETHERNET SPEED FOR VIDEO EDITING FULL#
- #MAC PRO ETHERNET SPEED FOR VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE#
- #MAC PRO ETHERNET SPEED FOR VIDEO EDITING MAC#
But 10GbE from the storage host to the switch should mean everyone can reliably play one, probably two clips at once as they should all be able to get their full 1GbE.
A 1GbE client plugged into the 10GbE switch would only have 1GbE to their computer. The 10GbE ports on the new switch can work at 10GbE or 1GbE, so they are backwards compatible. Just getting 10GbE (10,000Mbps) on the trash can hosting the storage to a 10GbE switch would alleviate some of the bottlenecks. If four editors are trying to use the single 1GbE link to the host everyone is in for a bad time. Note that a cross dissolve is playing two video streams at the same time, so playing a cross dissolve requires a 450-820Mbps connection to the storage based on the C300 Mk2 specs. As things are architected now the host computer is doing fine, but everyone else is sharing the single 1,000Mbps link from the host to the switch, so you're starved on that link. Over a 1,000Mbps (1GbE) pipeline that's enough to reliably play one video stream at a time.maybe three on a good day with a simple subject matter. I do this type of stuff every up the numbers a C300 Mk2 using XF-AVC reports bitrates in the 225-410Mbps range.
#MAC PRO ETHERNET SPEED FOR VIDEO EDITING MAC#
If you want 10G speeds from your 2013 Mac Pro's, you spend $199 per computer, and get Sonnet Solo 10G T2 thunderbolt 2 to 10G adaptors, and now you will have a full 10G system. You plug it's 10G port into a $600 Netgear XS708T, and all your computers plug into the Netgear XS708T 10G switch.
You add eight matching 7200 RPM drives (you can even use the ones in your G-Speed XL). This is all very easy to do, as long as IT stays out of your way. They don't have an answer for you, and they simply don't want to provide a solution for you that will give you the bandwidth that you require.įor the record, ProMax makes a small product called the Media Hub, which will allow you to reuse your G-Speed XL, but you still need the optional 10G port and a 10G switch. That is always the issue I run into with corporate network IT people. They will complain that you are using "too much bandwidth". They don't understand that a single stream of ProRes 1080 video requires 30 MB/sec, and you probably work in 4K now, and have multiple users. They will say "why can't you just use our corporate network". Your IT department will fight tooth and nail to prevent this from happening. So the current solution for you is to purchase an 8 bay QNAP or Synology with 10G ethernet adaptor, and a small 10G switch.
#MAC PRO ETHERNET SPEED FOR VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE#
If you had a 10G connection on one of your Macs, and you made this the dedicated server, and your G-Speed XL was plugged into this, and you plugged the 10G connection into a 10G switch (and macOS Server software worked), then you would accomplish what you want. There is no such thing as a thunderbolt hub.
You have a server (now your QNAP or Synology instead of the Mac Server), you plug the 10G port into a 10G switch, and all your editing computers plug into that switch. I then switched to using inexpensive shared storage from QNAP and Synology, which works perfectly, and does the same job. I did this from 10.6 all the way thru 10.12.6. You would take a Mac Pro, make it the server, plug your G-Speed XL into the Mac Pro, get a 10G box thunderbolt 2 box (like a Sonnet Twin 10G or Promise SanLink2), plug that into a small 10G switch, and now everyone could plug into the 10G switch, and you would be able to edit video, just the way you are describing.īut starting with macOS 10.13, Apple decided that they didn't like this anymore (who knows why - perhaps they thought that people could start using iCloud as their storage for their 4K ProRes files !) - so all of this stopped working properly. Back in the stone age, when Apple macOS Server worked (10.12.6 and earlier), I used to set these up all the time.
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