Storage recommendations

Hi all,

This is my first post so please go easy on me

I have just started using FCP and am loving it. However, I do have a bit of an issue as I am very quickly running out of storage on my local hard drive and therefore I want to understand what best practise techniques there is to manage this. I have a NAS server with plenty of storage so can I use this to create videos with? Are there any limitations or things I should look out for?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Scott, welcome to the forums.

Of course you can use a NAS to store your media and cache files (these take up the most of space). But it all depends on what kind of NAS you have. If it’s a home desktop NAS with only 1GbE connections, it will be too slow if you work with anything beyond HD. In this case, and if you are the only person editing, a decent direct attached SSD drive will be far more efficient.

- Ronny