I am in the process of setting up my new design and video editing system and am getting everything installed.
One of the major changes I have implemented on this new system is the use of dedicated Solid state hdds for managing certain specs of the system>
1 x 1TB SSD OS
1 x 1TB SSD Cache Drive
1x 1TB SSD Rendering Out Driv4
2x 4TB 10k RPM Media Drive Raid 10
2x 4TB 10 k RpM Project Drive Raid 0
(FYI -All backed up to a 36TB onsite NAS which is backed up to an offsite 36TB NAS, which is then archived to online cold storage with Amazon).
One of the issues with video editing is bottle necks when systems are trying to both read and write to a drive that is already under a lot of load. So in our new system we have split out all the major aspects of how and where data is pulled in from and written to.
Essentially, we have tried to minimize key data areas / drives having to read and write at the same time.
This means that files are pulled from there location drives at fast as possible, while rendering out / caching / previewing to respected dedicated drives.
This has made they system super quick.
Now, having said all that, the last major piece of software we want to add is Opus, and as such we would like to be able to send all the thumbnail files to our dedicated Cache drive. I don't see a way to do this easily, or if it is still possible.
I did come across a button function for an earlier version of Opus and am wondering whether this will still work?
<?xml version="1.0"?> Move Thumbnail Cache #makedir @nofilenamequoting @Set dd={dlgfolder|Select new thumbnail cache location} Copy MOVE "/dopuslocaldata\Thumbnail Cache" TO "{$dd}" Copy MAKELINK=junction "{$dd}\Thumbnail Cache" TO "/dopuslocaldata"
If this does still work, how do i tell it were to put the new thumbnail location?
If this cant be don't on the latest version of Opus, then i would be interesting in paying to have this function added.
Thanks
Mark
NZ