
It does not have to be a rack, you can also buy towers! If you’re afraid to buy from them, then be sure to check out Dells website for slick deals on used equipment. You can buy a used pre-built server for cheap off of eBay or from companies like / /. Even if you don’t suffer from my issue, you can still take 4k or 8k footage and transcode it to H.265 automatically to get the file size down. anything that can sit separately from your workstation and can chug away on video transcodes/encodes while you work. Now, I’m not saying you need a badass server like mine (although it helps) but you may want something….

It’s safe to assume I virtually spared no expense on this thing.

SanDisk Ultra Fit 16GB for unRAID OS ($6).SFF-8087 to SATA Forward Breakout (x2 $12 each).SATA 15-Pin Male to Dual 4-Pin Molex Female Y Splitter (x3 $4).However, in the spirit of keeping as much as possible in a single convenient location, I’m going to give you a list of all the components of this thing. Now, I have written in decent detail about what my Unraid server looks like and what it is comprised of here. Without the server, none of this would be possible well it would but not the way that I have laid it out. So I think it is most important to start with the server because this is truly the backbone of this entire build. Then of course once all editing is done, I will just upload that to YouTube or where ever on the internet. When Handbrake is done, it puts the finished video into the export folder, from there I can easily grab those files and import than into Final Cut Pro X at my leisure.

Handbrake see’s that new files have been placed into the folder and begins transcoding them into a 4K 60FPS MP4 file. I have to manually pull all video from the camera into the watch folder that is on my Unraid server. As seen above, this is basically the workflow.
