Premiere PRO requirements for network bandwidth for on-line edit

[lukaszmat]

Hello,

My customer have 30 Windows workstations with Adobe Premier Pro. They are now dowloading video files from NAS server to the workstation, working on that files and when the job is done files are uploaded back to the NAS. They are looking for storage that will allow them to edit files on-line on shared storage without dowloading/uploading files. So i'm looking for information about requirements for shared storage from performace perspective IOPS, block size, read/write ratio and required network bandwidth and other things to consider during designing storage solution for that use case. Theay are using now ucompressed 8k and plan to use 16k video.

Is there any Adobe guide or recomendations on that topic?

[John T Smith]

I don't have any information on using regular PPro to edit over a network

Solution for networks...
http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere/faq.html
Adobe Anywhere http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere.html
http://www.creativeimpatience.com/adobe-anywhere-enterprise-solution/

[Guest]

Yup: https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/white-papers/products/storage/h17334-wp-isilon-adobe-p...

[lukaszmat]

Thanks! Great document 🙂 I know that this is not so obvius but do you know how to calculate how much bandwidth could be consumed by editing uncompressed 8k or 16k video on shared storage? In this document 40GbE is suggested for 4k so for 8k/16k 100GbE ?

[Guest]

You can't fesibly plan for 16K at this point. 

8K will be 4x the data rate of 4K. 

16K will be 16x the data rate of 4K. 

Often, customers don't know what they actually need to get the outcome they desire. This seems to be the case here. 

Ask them what camera they're planning to use, what the mezzanine codec will be, and then give yourself 20% overhead after all the math is done. 

Just getting a solution that can serve up 8 streams of 8K RAW is probably going to blow your budget.