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hi guys, im building a pc and i was just after some tips as to how many hard drives to get and how to utilise the different speeds of the drives for project files, startup disk etc..without much thought im thinking.a 250gb ssd for the startup driveSamsung 970 EVO 250GB M.2 - ae disk cacheKingston SA1000 NVMe SSD - 960GB - main project files drive2tb 7200rpm drive - archive of all of my projects2tb 7200rpm drive - mirror backup of the above drivethe motherboard is a ASUS ROG Strix z370-fit has:1 x M.2 Socket 3, with M key, type 2242/2260/2280 storage devices support (SATA & PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode)*21 x M.2 Socket 3, with M key, type 2242/2260/2280 storage devices support (PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode)*36 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s)Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready *4would love to hear your thoughtsthanks

LENOVO THINK PAD T440 (SLIM) INTEL CORE i5-42100U VPRO PROCESSOR 1.7TO 2.4GHZ8GB DDR3 RAM240GB SSD 14" DISPLAY SCREENINTEL HD 4400 GRAPHIC CARD I am intending to buy this laptopAm I going to get a good performance if use photoshop, lightroom & indesign?

I'm in the process of buying a video card for my computer to aid in video editing and I wanted to know if PR and AE support Direct X - or - if the video cards have to be CUDA cards to be supported. Please advise.

I will confess that there is probably something I'm not understanding and maybe one of you can point me in the right direction or give me some good ideas.Current Rig:Core i5 4690 (Haswell)MSI Z97-G55 SLI16G Ram750G SSD (OS and Apps)1T Traditional HDD for media (SATA 6G)Win 10 (64 bit)Latest version of Premiere ProI'm using this for light editing. Playback with 4k files was enough to get the job done - (30fps on a single monitor at 1/4 resolution - don't need anything more). Smooth playback with cuts and dissolves, struggles a bit with fancier transitions, but if I pre-render I would get smooth playback.Added GTX 1060 (6G)Suddenly, can't play back 4k files in Premiere - SEVERE lag... skips tons of frames... forget anything nice. It even struggles a bit when playing 4k files using Windows default player.I killed everything running in the background. No help there.3D Games look great tho. So, thoughts about what I'm doing wrong? If I can't debug this, I am able to return the card but I wo

Hello,We just hired a graphic designer. Upon seeing the specs of the laptop she is receiving which had 16GBs of RAM and 256 GB SSD, she told us that she would need at least 32 GBs of RAM and 1 TB SSD to be able to render hour-long videos in an hour or less. She will be editing videos, creating them using green screen and rotoscopping.In doing some research, I am seeing that the CPU does the rendering and is most important in this case. Is this correct? Are her assertions correct for what she needs or is it somewhere down the middle? The laptop she has is still under what I feel are appropriate specs, but a 1 TB SSD is not doable for our organization, so we are looking to strike a balance.This is what I am interested in:DesktopOperating System: Windows 10 ProCPU: i7-7700, AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Quad Core, Intel 7th Generation Core i9 X, i7-8700, or i7-8700K RAM: 24 - 32GBs of DDR4Storage: 1TB Hard Drive + 256GB SSDGPU: Intel HD Graphics 630, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, NVIDIA G

Hi all... first time poster. I have been saving up my money and have a couple thousand dollars to buy a new computer. My main objectives it to be able to run Adobe CC and Camtasia so they run fast without a lot of issues. I have spent the day reading and watching videos and have seen a zillion suggestions, but figured I should go directly into the belly of the beast and ask actual Adobe CC users.If I knew how to assemble my own computer, I would... but that is beyond me. Can some of you give me suggestions of out-of-the-box solutions that are just ready to rock and roll? I would love to spend less than $2000 if I can, but if needed I can go that high and maybe just a little more. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking to possibly purchase a new computer for running ADOBE PREMIERE and AVID. The one I have has been great, but it's starting to show its age (especially with 4K projects). Here's what I currently have:Mac Pro (Late 2013)3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E564 GB 1866 MHz DDR3AMD FirePro D700 6144 MBI use AJA IO4K to monitor video and audio (and sometimes go to tape)and Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt 2 drives.I want to stay with MAC. Would I notice an improvement is I purchase a imac pro like this:Apple 27" iMac Pro with Retina 5K Display (Late 2017)3.2 GHz Intel Xeon W 8-Core32GB of DDR4 RAM | 1TB SSDAMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB HBM2)27" 5120 x 2880 IPS Retina 5K DisplayUHS-II SDXC Card ReaderThunderbolt 3 | USB 3.0Also, when I use an Adobe Product like Premiere Pro with my current system, to get clean renders, I have to use RENDER ENGINE IN SOFTWARE ONLY MODE. Would this imac pro fix that issue? Thanks!

I have an old laptop using a GeForce GT 620M and Intel i7-3517UI want to upgrade to a new 2-in-1 detachable laptop but unfortunately most of them don't come with discrete graphics.So for things like Adobe Premiere would my old GeForce GT 620M and Intel i7-3517U still be faster than the newer Intel 620 integrated graphics with something like an Intel i7-8650U?

Hi forum. ( this title should be posted in hardware forum)It'll be time soon to upgrade my PC, and make the most of the budget I can afford. I stumbled on this video on YouTube, which the specsseem extremely capable of enduring any task of Premiere and After effects, but the budget is around $8000 Australian Dollars. My question is, is this PC build overkill?for example, with all those high end specs, how long would it take to export a project from Premiere? In my previous post on the forum, I tried to export my H.264 video and I had to wait 12 Hours... Due to my PC having specs almost a decade ago which it was built. So just average taking a mere guess, how long would this BEAST which this guy claims take to export an hourly video?8K Video Editing BEAST! - 16 Core ThreadRipper for Premiere Pro and Resolve - YouTube Thank you.

Thanks in advance! This is a challenge only because of my limited budget...A. StorageTasks: I mainly edit XVAC 4K 30fps footages shot with SONY A7 series mirrorless using Premiere Pro (CS6 though), occasionally AE. So far none of my projects exceeds 100GB of size. My priority is smooth playback and workflow without drop frames.Specs of the PC I'm going to build:-CPU: i7-8700-RAM: 16GB-GPU: GTX770Due to budget, I am considering these storage options :a. 1x SATA III 500GB (for OS and project files)b. 1x SATA III (for OS); 1x SATA III (for project files)c. 1x M.2 (for OS and project files)d. 1x M.2 (for OS); 1x SATA III (for project files)e. 1x SATA III (for OS); 1x M.2 (for project files)Note: Except option (a), the above M.2 refers to "Samsung EVO 970 NVMe", while SATA III referes to "Samsung EVO 860 SATA III", and project files include all footages and caches etc. I back up every project to my HDD so I don't need a large SSD for project files.Questions:1. Which option would you recomme

​Hi! I am looking for advice!i do videography as a job and I also do the post-production of my videos. I have been working with an iMac. The thing is that next week I'll be traveling for 4 months and I need to be able to do post-production work while I am on the go.​In my search for a second hand laptop , saw this today. Apple MacBook Pro 13" Touchbar Core i5 3.1GHZ RAM 16GB 256GB SSD 2017 MODELProcessor TypeIntel Core i5 7th Gen.GPU/Video CardIntel Iris Plus Graphics 650, AMD Radeon Pro 560Now I am trying to work out if this machine will be good enough and work fast enough for dealing with footage in 4k and full hd1080p , using softwares like adobe Premiere, adobe audition, after effects, photoshop.I'd appreciate all your expert opinions. Would you guys get this second hand laptop if you were in my shoes and with a budget of 1500 Euros?​​thank you!​Ana

For the past several years, I have been giving advice to some users about what I have recommended for hardware upgrades, and I have been upgrading and/or updating my systems accordingly. But now, with finances in question and my non-entertainment, non-editing (read: everyday) work consuming most of my time these days, I am announcing my virtual retirement from hardware upgrades, and will only update to newer hardware if the old hardware begins suffering from security issues due to discontinued support.Here is the biggest reason for my decision:My work has been entirely in 1080p or lower resolution, and I am not planning to move to higher-rez video material (e.g. 4k) for the foreseeable future. Thus, I am beginning to feel that I have wasted money for all this hardware that may be more powerful than I will be needing in the foreseeable future.Therefore, I am staying put as far as the CPU, RAM and storage is concerned (i7-4790K CPU reverted back to the default Turbo'd speed, 32GB of RAM

I'm having major playback issues with premiere pro and my system. I purchased this system for 3D animation but thought that it should run premiere just fine. When I play any video files I get stuttering playback. I've tried placing the footage on thunderbolt drives/local storage and USB3 but to no avail. I tried changing the settings in premiere but no luck. Below are my specs. The only thing that I can think of is the the individual processor is slow. To note both 4k files and hd or lower resolutions all play at the same lagging rate. The playback even stutters with rendering the sequence. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated.Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4 @2.20ghz (2 processors at 40 total cores)64GB of RAMWindows 10 Pro 64bitGeforce GTX 1080 TiAlready tried:Lower preview settingsproxy filesTurn off high quality playbackSequence setting: Turned off Composite in linear color/max bit depth/max render qualityTried switching between cuda and cpuMemory switched between performance and mem

Hi! I am going to buy a new pc and I would like some advice about cpu... what is better for video editing? I have read a lot of things but nothing clear about this.Thanks in advance

HelloMy system is: CPU: I7-4930K 6 core (12 hyperthreads), Asus X79-DELUXE, EVGA GTX 780 TI 3GB, Cheivtec 1200w PSU, Win 8.1 pro 64bit, PPro CS6, Win 8.1 Pro 64bit, Ram: KINGSTON Hyper 32GB KIT of 4 1.65V KHX21C11T3K4/32XYesterday i updated my Nvidia Geforce experience to latest Geforce Drivers to 398.82 (08.01.2018)and my Mercury Play Back engine stopped working ....any one knows whats wrong?Regards

So I am planning to buy a new laptop, so I can edit a few short films I have been working on. Here are the specs for it:HP Envy 17 Laptop - 17.3" Edge-to-Edge IPS TouchScreen Full HD (1920x1080), 8th Gen Quad-Core i7-8550U, 16GB DDR4, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA MX150, IR Camera, Backlit, Windows 10Is this a good laptop to run premiere pro for what I am trying to accomplish? Thank you in advance

I'm redoing the storage in my workstation PC and could use some advice on how best to utilize my resources. I have: - m.2 NVMe SSD 250GB - 2x 250GB WD BLUE SATAIII SSDs in RAID0- 4x 1TB 7200RPM HDDs in RAID10 My current plan is:- m.2 for my OS and pprogram- SSD RAID0 for scratch/cache and current project source files- HDD RAID10 for cold storage of completed projects. I keep hearing that you can see big performance gains by having your media cache/scratch folder off your OS drive, but I can't see how that remains true on an NVMe SSD capable of 3GB/s - 1.5GB/s read-write speeds .I could break up the SSD RAID and use one SSD for cache/scratch, one for current project source, use the m.2 for OS, and the HDD RAID10 for cold storage. But, I'm not sure which is more beneficial for PP and AE to see in terms of performance: individually addressable dedicated drives or raw IOPS performance? The nature of how SSDs pull data from flash memory makes me lean toward the latter.

Hi everybody.I recently download premiere pro, and rendered my first video on this pc. I noticed that my cpu usage was at 95%, and the gpu 1%. I'am 100% sure that i turned on CUDA core render, but it still doesn't use my gpu. My gpu drivers are up to date. Does anyone know what's wrong?.System:Windows 10 proAsus geforce 1060 3gb ocGigabyte g970a-ds3pAmd fx 6300 black editon16gb ram256gb ssd (Premiere pro)256gb hdd

Hi all,I'm trying to spec out a laptop for a customer and the Nvidia Quadro P3200 has come up as an option.  Now, this card is not listed under Adobe's systems spec page​, so I contacted online chat, only to be told:"As it is not listed it will not work."I explained to the agent that there is clear proof that the card does work:Nvidia page on it's collaboration with Adobe:     Adobe Creative Cloud Accelerated on NVIDIA GPUs|NVIDIABenchmark from Nvidia in collaboration with Adobe clearly listing the P3200:  https://images.nvidia.com/content/adobe/pdf/quadro-adobe-premier-pro-solution-overview-684906-us-r2-web.pdfPresented with this, the tone changed slightly to:     "as this graphics card is not listed you will face issues with Premier Pro CC application."Can someone from Adobe please give me a definitive answer on this?Will it work with Adobe Premiere Pro?Is it supported?In addition, if confirmed as supported, I'd appreciate it if an Ad

I currently have a: Lenovo Ideapad 320 Touchscreen, 15.6-Inch Laptop (Intel Core i7, 16 GB DDR4, 2TB HDD, Windows 10 Home), 80XN0002USIs the laptop powerful enough to run premiere pro or do I need to get another one?

System:Window 10 - 64 BITIntel i7-6700K @3.20GHz (8 Core)64 GB DDR4 RAM - 2133MHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080tiPremiere/OS on 2 x 500 GB SSD in RAID 0MEDIA - 10G Ethernet/Local  as well as 7200 RPM HDDPremiere during playback is dropping frames like crazy and is barely utilizing the system in any way.RAM uses at most 10 GB of the available 64 GB of memory and I have the memory preference set to performance with only 6 GB reserved for other resources.CPU usage floats around 3% - 7% at most (even during renders and exports)GPU is barely being used at all. Ever.Similar systems in our office are utilizing the full potential of the hardware and playing back the exact same sequence without any issues, but my system has a strange bottleneck somewhere that I cannot locate.Please tell me how to increase performance so that I can get stable playback.Both rendered and unrendered sequences playback with hundreds of dropped frames.I have tried both mercury playback only and CUDA GPU acceleration. I

Hello,I want to buy a new laptop. I'll mainly use it for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop. Should I rather buy a 7th or an 8th generation Intel processor?The 8th generation has more cores, but a lower clock speed. Will Adobe programmes profit from the extra cores? Or should I better choose for the higher clock speed? CoresMax Turbo FequencyBase FrequencyCachei7-7700HQ (7th gen.)43.8 GHz2.8 GHz6 mbi7-8750H (8th gen.)64.1 GHz2.1 GHz9 MB SmartCacheThanks in advance!

The recent Premiere update pointed out improvements in speed for 7th gen or later Intel CPUs which got me thinking...is it time to upgrade my MB and CPU?I'll list my specs below and what it is I do regularly and any help/advice on upgrade vs. don't worry about it would be helpful.The Crash on 8-6-18:It's been a long time since I visited this forum. But a good crash will always make you rethink your hardware setup. After 3-4 good years on my build I had BOTH my OS drive (Samsung 850 Pro) crash and my 4TB RAID0 Striped HDD Media Drive crash on me at once. Both were unrecoverable. I knew the RAID0 might go, but the 850 Pro shocked me.- So after the crash I replaced my Media Drive and picked up a 2TB 860 Evo.- And I replaced my OS Drive and picked up a 860 Pro (so I don't have to wait for warranty replacement)So now my setup looks like this:Motherboard: Asus X99 DeluxeCPU: Intel 5960xRAM: 64GB (8 x 8GB ) G.Skill DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300)GPU: GTX 970OS Drive: 512 GB Samsung 860 Pro (NEW - repla

My research so far has lead me to the Dell XPS 9575 - though I'm concerned it only has 16GB RAM, with for £2,000+ doesn't give a very promising longevity, especially since it's soldered RAM (grrr) their 32GB option is delayed again (next year now!!) HP Studio x360 is allegedly the world's most powerful 2-in-1 now (I hope so at ~£3,000 for 32GB option) but I'm really unsure about Quadro. I've generally understood Quadro to be a load of shite and overpriced marketing hype for all but 1% of users. And even us professional Adobe editors don't fall into that 1%.By the way, before it tangents the conversation - No this wouldn't be my main edit suite. But sometimes I do need to pack extremely light and edit on the move (and 2-in-1 form factor is essential for me in a light laptop for a number of reasons, including using external keyboard + pen)

I have a graphics card that is compatible with GPU acceleration and I have GPU acceleration turned on in Settings.To try and see how Pr uses resources, I've had a system monitor open while rendering a recent project. The beginning of the project (~35-40 seconds) is all animation.  Assets were created in Ps, imported into Pr with motion added via the Effects panel in Pr.  These same assets are in different places on the timeline at various points in the film.Looking at the resource monitor, when these animation elements are being rendered, GPU use is high.  This makes sense.  GPU use then drops when standard video segments are being rendered.  This, too, makes sense.  The video card is a Radeon RX580 with 4GB of on card RAM.When it comes to the CPU, when rendering the animations, CPU use is high (90%+).  I've got an 8-core processor at 3.1 GHz with 16GB of RAM installed (not sure of the RAM clock speed).  When the rendering hits standard video seg