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guygNOEX
guygNOEX
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January 28, 2018
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Memory and storage requirements for timelapses

  • January 28, 2018
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Hello Timelaspers, I am configuring a new PC, can anyone give advice on how much SSD space I should have? not sure if the 256GB will be enough, or I should invest in something bigger already to begin with? Maybe I should even have 2 SSDs? will it help in anyway?

My usual workflow will be:

1. Uploading ~ 1000 - 5000 RAW files.

2. Editing them together or separately, it will be a different 'SYNC' for each composition
3. Exporting the JPEG sequence to another HDD drive

4. Using this JPEG sequence to AE for some other effects etc...

I will have for sure 2 X Black WD HDD's 4TB each.

Currently will probably have the 250GB SAMSUNG 960 EVO SSD NVMe M.2

Should I make sure to get the 512 GB or the 1TB?

Should I even get a separate one? The Antec P8 Performance One will have room for 2 SSD's...

Will they be lesser than the 960 EVO which should be really great?

Is this current set up already an overkill ? Which is good, bc it is already in my budget. might invest just a little more for more SSD.

Would appreciate your advice.

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    Correct answer Jao vdL

    Do you want the raw files to be stored on the SSD or are you using the 4TB drives? 5000 raw files will take between 100 and 300 GB so probably it is not enough to store those if you have catalog and OS there too so you'll probably have to store images on the 4TB drives. Of course if you put those on the 4TB externals you will be OK. That said, 256 GB is smallish if it holds the OS, LR catalog, previews, camera raw cache, and cache from after effects. I would suggest at least 500GB therefore.

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    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    January 28, 2018

    I have one 500GB SSD partitioned into 2 drives, C & D, and fined it big enough for all my programs and storing the LR catalog.

    I do store my images on a standard rotating drive, E.

    I have the SSD partitioned in half, 250+/- 250+/- and have about 170GBs of free space on both. 99% of my programs are installed on the D drive partition but even then most all programs written today place some parts on the C, System, drive.

    To install Adobe CC apps on any other drive than the C drive you first have to set it to install on another drive in the Creative Cloud Desktop App then install the subscription based programs. Otherwise the CC DTA is set to install the C System drive.

    guygNOEX
    guygNOEXAuthor
    Participant
    January 28, 2018

    Thank you for the quick reply. Can you tell me a little bit about your process if you are editing timelapses? Do you think that this set up you suggested may work well also if I work with these huge imports I mentioned?

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    January 28, 2018

    I have never done a Time Lapse.

    A time lapse is just a bunch of still images shot from the same place over a period of time, as you know. There is nothing different about them than importing any other still images.

    I recently imported nearly 1800 images from a trip I took. LR handled it fine. The longest part will be in the actual copying of images from the SD card and then creating all the previews. I get around the preview creation by setting LR to use the built in JPG file included in every RAW image file as the preview. You do that in the import dialog window before you start the import.

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