Infrastructure
A dedicated workflow built around enterprise storage, NVMe scratch, and an HDR-capable Adobe pipeline. The hardware is the reason the projects ship on time.
Primary Storage
Eight 20 TB Toshiba MG10 enterprise drives, configured as SoftRAID RAID-5 with one drive of parity protection. Sustained sequential throughput in the 1.3–1.8 GB/s range; large-file reads approach 2 GB/s. Sized for multi-terabyte RAW archives, 8K intermediate files, long HDR image sequences, and Lightroom catalogs and previews without compromise.
Active Project Volume
A dedicated APFS volume (“Project_Active”) for Camera Raw cache, Premiere scratch, active LRTimelapse renders, and current working files. Real-world Thunderbolt-limited throughput in the 2.5–3 GB/s range, with the random-access latency that batch RAW processing and timeline scrubbing actually depend on.
Software
RAW development, HDR editing, cataloging, batch metadata and color, Camera Raw processing.
Holy grail exposure transitions, keyframe workflows, deflicker, sequence preparation, and render automation.
Final film assembly, 4K and 8K HDR timelines, audio layering, and the export and render pipeline.
HDR Pipeline
HDR-capable Lightroom editing across the full sequence, TIFF intermediate rendering for color fidelity through the pipeline, and 4K/8K HDR exports on the Premiere side. Cache and scratch architecture tuned for the workload — Camera Raw cache and Premiere scratch on NVMe, archive on RAID — so the bottleneck is rarely the storage.
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