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Hi guys!So i've been editing on my macbook pro for a while and just now I bought a new pc mainly for gaming but I really wanted to take advantage of the power for editing as well!Could you guys help me in what configs of Premiere I should go since I know nothing about this hahaha. For instance, I've just changed my render to CUDA because I didn't had a clue about that.I've also heard that h264 is bad for rendering with my hardware, and I would like to know if there is a better codec! I edit simple stuff for my tiny channel in Youtube!Thanks for the help!My new PC:Ryzen 7 1700NVIDIA GTX 1080ti16gb DDR4 RAM 3200mhz(running at 2933mhz)2tb HDD (will be adding a SSD next week!)[Moderator note: moved to best forum.]

Hi,I'm looking into buying a new HP Zbook as my Elite 8760w is getting old and quite tired... BUT I'm at lost at the many different variations available...Besides the ram, internal drive, and minor features, I'd like to know if any of you think there are major/significant noticeable difference between their processors and graphics cards, from the cheapest to most expensive (G3 series).Also: for some reason, HP Canada still don't carry their latest G4 models and am wondering if it's better to purchase from the US to get that "bonus" optimal machine. Yet I'm not sure if I'm going to be for their tech support. Cause as much as I had a good amount of problems with my current workstation, I can honestly say that I've been VERY satisfied by the solid post-sale customer service, and that alone makes me want to buy from them again.In other words, which is the best unit that will save good time on the renders and live workflow productivity in PP & AE? I mean, I don't need to buy the very la

I've found out that AE uses a single core for rendering. With that being said I am having some difficulties believing I should buy a $45 CPU for my rendering machine. Take this 2 products for example:AMD A6-6400K and AMD Ryzen 3 1300X.https://www.amazon.com/AMD-A6-6400K-Dual-Core-Processor-AD640KOKHLBOX/dp/B00CPLGFM4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507030230&sr=8-1&keywords=AMD+A6-6400Khttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0741DLVL7/ref=psdc_229189_t2_B06XKVNRSMThey have the same power consumption, similar clockrates, but the 1300X one is almost 3x the cost of the A6-6400K.  Am I missing something obvious here? Is there any argument why should someone buy 1300X over the cheeper one, if rendering is the main goal here? I won't be doing any ray-traced stuff. Does it make any sense to buy the 1300x, if I am going to shift to 2014 version of AE?

I color graded a clip in premiere and then replaced it with an after effects composition to apply motion tracking to the clip. After reimporting the clip back into premiere i noticed that the color grading was gone. When attempting to grade it again it also changes the logo I imported in after effects. How can I preserve adjustments previously made in premiere when exporting clips to after effects?

I'm wondering about the processes we are trying to eliminate. There are mentions of processes in various threads, I thought maybe we could do some comparisons here.When I first saw Bill Gehrke​ processes tab with 62 processes I was feeling confident - but I was looking at my Windows 7 install at that point and I was down around the same number. However, my newish 6850k build using Windows 10 - is +30 on that or at 92 about 5 minutes after a fresh reboot. My Task Manager / processes screen is below.I was feeling better about my system when I discovered just recently that Windows (also just recently) now counts the processes differently. This is a change to Windows 10, but not until the "Creators Edition" / 1703 was released. It seems the processes were "grouped" previously so the count was smaller but since the 1703 (started rolling out in April, 2017 the processes are all started individually: Here's what MS said:"Separating SvcHost servicesBeginning with Windows 10 Creators Update (ve

Hi,Is it really necessary for PPro to eat 9,3GB of memory while rendering 14min clip with two video tracks, additional audio track and one title? I mean, I've edited MUCH more complex video sequences successfully with my old laptop, which had back then 4GB of memory and C2D processor. That was some two or three years ago. Now I'm running on a Xeon machine that scores 11k on Geekbench (not much but enough) and has 12GB of RAM installed.On this small editing session Premiere has crashed three times because of low memory. Windows event reporter tells me it ate alone 9,3GB of memory. This should not be necessary for such a small project, and the abrupt nature of those crashes hint to faults in program's memory management. Premiere actually exceeded it's own set memory limit.Normally Windows warns when it thinks user is running out of memory. With premiere, it just kills the program. Once my screens just went black, and the machine stayed unresponsive until forced boot.Whaddya think, is thi

Hello,I want to buy the best PC for after effects. I assumed that after effects use CPU rather than GPU(except 3D ray tracing). Suggest me best CPU and RAM for after effects.HP Workstation Z820Intel 2687w x2 processors with 32GB ram and Nvidia Quardo m4000 GPU.Is it a good decision?Or suggest me better processor than it.Thanks in anticipationEhsan

Hi I am about to buy a new laptop and wondering about video cards. I have looked at the Adobe specs and none match the 2 graphics cards that have been suggested by the laptop retailers. (they don’t have any that are on the Adobe spec list which I think may be out of date?)Nvidia® Quadro M1000M with 2GB GDDR5NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5I use Premier Pro and After Effects for animation/video editing and often use quite a few effects including gaussian blur etc.Anyone have any thoughts on these cards for what I want to do?Thanks for any help.

Premiere Pro cannot support performance gains for more than 14 cores...I'd like there to be noticeable improvement in performance of live playback, warp stabilizer and exporting WITH higher core counts. Currently, it is obvious that Premiere Pro cannot use any more than 14 cores. It is currently maxing out performance at 14 cores. See the link below for real results:https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2017-1-2-CPU-Performance-Core-i9-7940X-7960X-7980XE-1034/When your running a full time media production business, time is more valuable than money. We can afford to dump money on well above 18 core cpu's(with overclocking) if Intel gave us the opportunity too. If Premiere Pro cannot supply performance gains with more raw computing power at its fingertips, then your heaviest users start looking into FCPX, Davinci resolve and other editing platforms. Premiere Pro's performance efficiency with higher core counts is the biggest crutch to volume media production company'

Found this video and unless Intel does something miraculous with its pricing and/or performance, looks like I'll be building one of these in the next couple months.8K Video Editing BEAST! - 16 Core ThreadRipper for Premiere Pro and Resolve - YouTube not sure if the hardware guys such as Bill got a chance to see this.  would love to hear their thoughts.  I will be doing a 1080 ti for cuda is my only difference. 

Hello!I feel like rendering/exporting tasks after the last PP update are taking way more time.Is there any way to fasten things up again? Before, I was able export in at least the half amount of time, could have been even faster...Example 1 (full editing done in Premiere Pro):2:40 minute timelineFootage from Nikon D750 and Sony a6000 (not encoding before editing)Applied effects: LUT, RGB Curves, Lumetri Color, Warp Stabilizer, Unsharp MaskExport (via Media Encoder) to Full HD H.264 (VBR 2 pass): minimum 1.5 hoursExample 2 (full editing done in After Effects):40 second timelineFootage from Nikon D750 (not encoding before editing)Applied effects: LUT, RGB Curves, Lumetri Color, Warp Stabilizer, Unsharp MaskExport (via Media Encoder) to Full HD H.264 (VBR 2 pass): approx. 20 minutesMy machine:MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)2,5 GHz Intel Core i7500GB SSD16 GB 1600 DDR3AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB (+ Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB)Premiere Settings:Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (O

After replacing a failed motherboard premiere will load but will not function. Load a previous incomplete project and it wont playback and is super slow. Tried with a new project and its doing the same thing. Any suggestions? Also, wont close without a not responding error and a force close.Have removed Premiere and reinstalled. Same problem.Have bench marked and stress tested the computer, all works great on that end.PC specs:Intel I7 6600KCorsair DDR4 2133  16G (2 sticks)(New) ASUS H250B ROG MOBO (old) ASRock Z170 Pro 4 MOBONVIDIA 1050TI GPURan Premiere well enough before the failed mother board.[Moderator note: moved to best forum]

Hey guys,I am close to setting up my Premiere workstation after a few months of research/planning. I wanted to list my specs/workflow and see if the experts here can chime in to see if I could optimize it any better. Any opinions are well appreciated.CPU:AMD Ryzen 1700XCan probably overclock to 3.8Ghz but tired of random BSOD errors in the middle of working on projects.RAM:Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000Can overclock to a stable 2666Mhz since latest BIOS update.GPU:MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ARMOR OCV1No need to upgrade to 1080Ti because of negligible performance gains within Premiere Pro specifically. I ran my own tests with a 1080Ti to come to this conclusion.Motherboard:ASRock X370 TaichiHas lots of great features but boot time is slow (~25 seconds).OS Drive:Samsung 960 EVO 250GBWorks great, can't say I'm missing out on anything from the 960 PRO.Media Drives:Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM (x3 in RAID0) Created volume via disk management disk striping. Seems to run o

ok folks. Anyone out there actually using it?  I'm about to setup a new array, and reading around it seems its going to suck for writing.  And for smaller files. How small no one seems to say. Will 70mb raw files be considered small?  (I do lots of timelapse).  In fact most of my video files are in the hundreds of megabytes range rather than gigabytes.  I have 4 drives going into the array. to raid 5 or 3?

Hi all,May I have your suggestions about my next upgrades, RAID setup and some GPU related questions?Working here for about 5 years with almost the same hardware with some slight upgrades in time and only using CS6 for this period.Currently running the PC configuration below with a fresh install of Win10 and the latest Adobe CC apps:Mainboard: Asus P9X79 DeluxeCPU: i7 3820 3.6 GHzRAM: 32GB installed (4x8GB Corsair Vengeance DDRr3 1600mhz). (Latest BIOS update can expand to 128 GB (8x16GB)!Videocard: Nvidia Quadro K5000 (I have a second one K5000 but not installed yet)SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB  /System/SSD: Kingston HyperX 120GBHDD: 3x WesternDigital 1TB (RaidEdition2 SATA 3.0Gb 7200rpm) no RAID enabledHDD: 2x WesternDigital 2TB (CavairBlack 6.0 Gb 7200rpm) no RAID enabledMonitors: 2xAsus ProArt 27" 1980x1200Power: 800W Cooler Master GoldSo I have a lot of considerations, I still think I can use a lot of the available parts even if I change some of them or add some, PCIe RAID con

I"ve got a ton of rendering to do for an upcoming conference and I thought I'd double my rendering speed witching to the new graphics processor (using CUDA setting). The rendering is basically two 1080p video streams that get reduced top picture in picture with the output again being 1080p. I know different video processors make a difference because I've carried around a 10 minute benchmark I use over and over for testing between different devices (previous results pasted below).The 970GTX and 1080Ti are giving me almost identical rendering results.  Is that to be expected on what I'm doing? (my computer itself has 64Gig Ram, i7-5820K processor).[Moderator note: moved to best forum]

First, my system specsMSI B350M board + Ryzen 1600 + 16GB DDR4 + Radeon RX 560Installed PPro CC 2015 in Windows 10 Pro and when encoding to MPEG video, resource monitor shows the threads as hardly utilized. Reinstalled PPro in Windows 7 Home and with the same preset, am now encoding using anywhere from 70% to 100% on all cores.I have the high performance profile running in both O/S and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem?[Moderator note: moved to best forum]

Will Premiere and After Effects be able to make use of 18 cores (36 core multi-threaded) 64 bit processors?If not, then this should be a huge priority for the developers to tackle... Dropped frames and sluggish performance when working on multi layered projects seems to limit most projects I work on these days. The programs slow to a halt if you have more than one two layers playing at once (at least on my rig) even when the playback is set to 1/4 this does not help overcome this processor bottleneck.When I link an edited file from After Effects to Premiere it is even much worse...I use Prodad effects and those also are processor hungry.All of my projects are on hold because my processor is just too slow to work with several layers at once. We need multi-processor load balancing ASAP Adobe. It will be terrible if I purchase an Intel 18 core processor and Adobe has not caught up to utilize the new processor count. As it is my processor fan winds up at the slightest use of Premiere and t

Video editing hardware question: just upgrading laptop, which do I choose1) 16gb ram (upgradable to 32gb) & graphics card with 2GB DDR42). 8gb (upgradable to 16gb) & graphics card with 4GB DDR5?Both are 7th/ 8th gen i7

Ok, didn't end up getting my Son the new i7-7700k PC that we originally wanted to build, and after being told to look into the new AMD Ryzen chips, we have decided to build the following AMD Ryzen 1700X System instread, and i have already ordered the hardware ready to pick up next week.Case = Aerocool DS mATX Cube-Orange = $145PSU = FSP AS-650 FSP AURUM S 650W 80+ GOLD = $109Mobo = MSI B350M Mortar Arctic AM4 MATX = $135CPU = Ryzen 1700X = $515CPU Cooler = Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler = $99Cooler Bracket = Noctua NM-AM4 Mounting Kit = $9Ram = G.Skill F4-3200C14D-16GFX 16GB 8GB X 2 DDR4 3200 MHZ = $295Graphics = MSI GTX-1060 Aero 6gb = $449System/Apps Drive = 256gb Samsung 960 EVO NVMe = $179TOTAL= $1935 (this Australian $$$)Ok, i think i will need to get a GTX-1070 8gb GPU rather than the 1060 6gb GPU, according to the expert in the following link, seems like even a GTX-980Ti 6gb performs better than the 1060 card, which i think is a bit odd, but anyway, i need to ask if this will be a goo

Current notebook has access to 4 drives. The OS is on:Drive 1 C: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMeAlso has two Internal drives:Drive 2 😧 Samsung 960 EVO Series - 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD Drive 3 E: 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard DriveAnd one external:Drive 4 F: Samsung T5 Portable SSD - 500GB - USB 3.1 External SSDGoing by Harm M's. Guidelines, with 4 Disks it's suggested that beyond the OS drive, Premiere settings should be configured with Media/projects, Pagefile/Cache, and Previews/Exports on separate drives.Obviously the 1TB 7200 SATA is by far the slowest drive, so wondering which area of Premiere should I assign that drive to, and what's the best way to assign the remaining drives?😧 Media,Projects (which drive?)E: Pagefile, Media Cache (which drive?)F: Previews, Exports (which drive?)

I'm looking to have a custom laptop built for video editing. Is there anywhere, anybody that can review specs for a laptop that I'm looking at and verify it will work with adobe CC. I don't want to order and then find out that it's not completely compatible. Thanks

Hi Adobe family!I run a late 2014 5k iMac. Its 4.0 ghz, 32gb RAM, 1tb fusion(unfortunately, I know). I'm having a lot of trouble in lightroom. My sunset skies get stuck being pixelated sometimes for minutes. I don't remember this being a problem in the past. I also recently got a 42mp camera, and the files lag a bit. I was considering getting a new 2017 iMac, but Im not sure if its worth spending 3k to get up to a 4gb graphics card. I'm assuming thats the big issue, not the fusion drive. My photos are stored on a thunderbolt RAID drive with speeds of a little over 300mb/s each way. With high sierra coming out with support for egpu's, I'm wondering if thats a better answer. I do only have thunderbolt for connectivity though, not thunderbolt 3 that the egpu's that apple is selling require. I'd much rather spend $500 on an egpu, when everything else my computer does works fine. Can you guys tell me if A) It sounds like the graphics card is my issue?B) Have any recommendations of a graphic

All the discussions you see comparing cards are about things like rendering times and the like.I'm aware that there's not much in it between these 2 cards for that but I cant help wondering if the extra 4gb of memory helps with playing-back and rendering cuda effects in 4k?I've not been able to figure out whether my system issues (black screening, failed GPU renders, constantly having to clear the media cache etc) is down to my gtx970 and will be helped by a new GPU.  I'd love to get some input before dropping $1000!

I have installed several programs via the CC apps three of them will not launch.  Premiere Pro and the associated Media Encoder and After Effects.  When attempting to open/launch the programs I get an audible error tone, no on screen error.  I have:Installed and uninstalled from inside and outside of the firewallInstalled and uninstalled from the CC App and from the Adobe websiteReviewed the Install log and found no error on last install outside of the firewall.Tried running as AdminWhat else can I try?