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Hello all,My business is starting to take off and I will be doing a lot of editing professionally.  Its been driving me nuts trying to pick between PC or iMac, every few hours for the last week or so I have changed my mind.  I use Premiere Pro and After Effects mainly, my budget is $4000 which is between either a custom PC or a 27" maxed out iMac.  Im planning on going into film production/post production down the road but not a huge consideration, by then I will most likely have a different computer.Considerations:I would prefer PC but as im going professional if an iMac would be better im willing to go that route.  Whatever will move my job forward.The iMac would be the build in 5K display with a 1080P monitor.  (Specs maxed)The PC would be connected to a 4K monitor with two 1080P monitors.  (Specs=Beast)I have heard there will most likely be a new iMac next month but its all roomer. I an experienced with both a PC and a Mac.Basically I want to get my jo

Hi everybody,After reading around the forums and the web in regard of 4K resolution Windows machines, I am still struggling to decide if I should get a 4K screen or stick to the FHD version. I am planning on getting a new laptop (15 inch) and there is an option to get a 4K screen with it. I've read all the discussions about scaling issues and so on, but still. Some people think it's workable, while others think it's not.However, most of those discussions where about 4K monitors, while this laptop has merely a 15 inch screen. I haven't found a 4K screen in a shop nearby in order to see it for myself and that's why I would like some opinion on this issue. My gut says that I should just stick to a FHD screen, while my mind says, get the 4K screen because that's where everything will be going and I don't want to be buying another laptop in a year or so ...Any opinions on what the best way to go is are most welcome...Thanks,Lex

Hi I have a ASUS Republic of Gamers G74 with Adobe CS 5.5.  I'm looking to upgrade to CC 2017.  My laptop is 5 years old and I know very little about hardware.  I have an i7-2670QM 2.2 GHz processor with 12GB RAM.  My question is that for Premiere Pro CC 2017, what will I need to upgrade hardware-wise, or should I just scrap my ASUS and get a whole new computer?  Also my graphics card is NVidia GTX 560M.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Hi guys,Over the next 3 days, I hope to have a solid build spec'd out to recommend to my boss. I've done some research, and came up with this current build.CPU: $1050 Intel Core i7-6900KGPU: $610 EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTWRAM: $1060 Corsair Vengeance LED 64GB x2 (128GB)Motherboard: $244 ASUS X99-A IIOS: $140 Windows 10 ProSSD: Operating System/Programs: $250 Samsung 960 Evo 500GB M.2-2280SSD: Cache: $150 Crucial MX300 525GBSSD: Media: $550 Crucial MX300 2TBHDD: Archive: $280 WD Black 6TBCase: $130 Corsair Carbide Series 600CPSU: $110  CORSAIR RMx 850WHeatsink: $60 CORSAIR Hydro Series H50Thermal Paste: Arctic Silver 5 $6TOTAL: (With Taxes, & Shipping to Wi, USA) - $4,647.46I currently have 3 monitors, KB/Mouse. We do not have extra internal system cables, so all contents will need to be retail instead of OEM.The programs I currently use: Adobe CC17: After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop.My job intends to have me get into Cinema 4D in the near future, and may invest in Octa

Buying a custom built Clevo Barebone - P750DM2 laptop with i7 7700. Just a beginner in AE, Premiere and C4D. .. no idea on the projects that will come to me. Buying for learning these softwares. On which projects exactly the difference between GTX 1060m and gtx 1070m comes into play? Want to take a decision based on current necessity and future necessity... If gtx 1070m is required only for some red 4k footage like that?

I use a Roland V-40HD video production switcher fed by two Canon XHA1 cameras with analog component cabling, and want to simultaneously record the video from each using a good 4:4:4 codec for editing. I currently have one of the switcher's outputs connected to a DVD recorder, but need to have high-definition archival copies. I think I will need a 4x4 router to connect the cabling to, to distribute it to the switcher and also to PC-based video capture cards. I often use supplemental video from one other camera, and am planning to add a CG input to the switcher from the PC I will use, thus the 4x4 requirement. I want to preserve the analog component quality from the cameras for post-production use, and be able to use that PC to also live stream the event without choking or dropping frames. The PC I am considering for this task is the MSI X99A Workstation with an i7 6800K CPU, several terabytes of fast internal RAID storage, and a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti [4 GB] graphics card to use with Dell

Hey Guys, im searching for a new editing machine. I was looking around for while and found laptop like the Asus ZenBook or the Dell XPS 15.But i dont really now if this fits my suits. Right now I'm a Editor, VFX Artist in a Studio and meanwhile im studying.Cuz im traveling a lot, I need my Workstation with me all the time. So i can editing in the studio, in the train or @9795144. I already got a Desktop for my home so i dont really need a new one. I´m working very often with the Adobe Products, Cinema4D, 3DS Max. Most of the footage will be edit in 4K so i need a laptop that can handle this. An 4K Display will be also great!Do u have any suggestions what laptop i should buy?Sry for my bad english hope u can understand it Thanks!!!

I just installed 8 more gigs of RAM. Did it myself and it posted! Yippie! I now have 12 gigs and let me tell you it's like a vitamin B12 shoot to it. The difference is like night and day. Windows boots quicker, programs launch faster and even my monitor looks better. Tomorrow, another 8 gigs to max it out at 16 gigs. I shouldn't need anymore than that as I'm not running anything that memory intensive I think. After this, gonna get a better video card and then who knows maybe a newer CPU.How about you folks anyone updating their hardware? If so, with what?

Hey everyone!I am running a 2013 Mac Pro (12 core, 1TB, D700, 64GB) for video editing.My current drive setup is as follows:4x 512GB Samsung Pro SSDs in an OWC ThunderBay Mini (Raid 0 — 1200MB Write, 1320MB Read)1 TB Mac Pro SSD (980MB Write, 1110MB Read)8x 8TB IronWolf HDDs in an Areca 8050 (Raid 1+0 — 850MB Write, 1050MB Read)How would you suggest I set up my AE/PP drives? How should the "workflow" of my setup be in terms of file movement?I am very new to this all, but I was thinking:1) Move files from camera to the SSD Raid 0.2) Edit files.3) Render to Desktop4) Transfer all files to HDD Raid 1+0 for storage.Does this seem like it would give me the best rendering speeds or whatnot? Is there a better way to set this up?Like I said, I have no real idea how to go about this all.THANK YOU!

Hello,I've bought a Dell 5567 Laptop with I7 7500u CPU, 8 GB DDR4 2133 RAM, AMD Radeon R7 M445 4GB, 256 GB SSD and Windows 10. I shot some footage with GOPRO Hero 5 in 4k, added it to a sequence in Premiere and tried to export as MP4 H264, 1080p, Render at maximum quality, VBR 2 pass. It took 13 hours to encode a 7 minute 4 GB movie.The memory was 1 DIMM so it as running single channel. I bought another 8 GB DIMM and added it so it's dual channel now, 16 GB RAM in total.I did the exact same thing and the encoding took 1h 30 minutes.I wanted to know why is this staggering performance increase (10x) from RAM in dual channel, during the encoding it was not using almost no RAM so i don;t think was the size of the RAM.

I'm interested in hearing thoughts on a good 15" travel laptop for Premiere Pro editing and reasonable encoding of small/moderate projects to H.264 (i.e., projects with several 1 to 3 hours of footage, approx 50GB to 250GB in raw footage per project, cut into a 5 to 20 minute final... small stuff. Footage is all from Canon DSLR ALL-I footage or Point-n-shoot/smartphone mp4 files.Projects typically use basic transitions and Lumetri... not much VFX... some AE now and then perhaps. More specifically, I'm curious about thoughts on 15" laptop for Premiere editing... how bad is it? ... and...Are there any recommended power or fav 15" laptops? (PC/Windows world.) So far I've been looking at the Dell XPS 15 9560 (specs below) because someone mentioned it in a post somewhere on this forum.I'm considering getting a second 15" laptop with the following goals in mind...Primary reason: Something lighter weight and smaller for travel, but with enough perf to reasonably edit/encode. As a backup lapt

Having dell xps 8300 How good is the performance of i7 2600 in after effects and premiere pro?  I am going to use it as a starter. Will upgrade within a year or 6 months... Just wanted to know will it fair for a beginner? Motherboard supports 16 gb Max. Will upgrade the graphics cards to GTX 1070 /1060.

If this is in the wrong forum then I apologise.Having an issue with CUDA on Premiere Pro CC 2015 and my GTX 760 4GB. I was editing on Premiere yesterday and had no problems and I have been using this card and Premiere Pro CC (2014 & 2015) for over a year now with no issues. However, today I opened up the project I was working on yesterday and got the message telling me that CUDA GPU acceleration is no longer available. When I create a new project I only get the option to use software CUDA. Went into the NVIDIA Control Panel and selected 'use all GPUs' for CUDA with Premiere Pro - still not working.I did update my graphics card drivers a few days ago but it seems odd that CUDA would be disabled now and not straight after I updated.Graphics drivers: 355.60 (latest at time of posting - 16/08/2015)Operating system: Windows 10 Pro x64 (I installed Windows 10 two weeks ago and have had no issues with CUDA until this morning).Thanks.

Dear Team,I am bit confuse to propose best specific laptop model for development of high quality E-Content which consist of embedded audio & Videos, for my internal development team.So far below laptop I found good, would like to know more before I propose to my company for E-Content development,Best Laptop 2016 - ENVY Laptop - HP Studios - YouTubeI have to make sure whichever laptop will i order it will be best for developers to to develop, render audio-video, test end output multiple times & perform all E-learning product development process without slow down issues.Looking for help...Thanks & Regards,Ganesh R Kandalkar[moderated personal info]

Could you please recommend the suitable computer specification for optimize use of Illustrator and Photoshop?We've used adobe design program  for working. When we design our work, program sut down sometimes.It seems like that our working data is too heavy to our computer.So design team decided to buy new one and need to Adobe's reference for persuading our boss.[Current status]Actually, I've already checked computer sp@ecification which is mensioned on the Adobe website.And all of our computers are enough to use according to your website.The problem is our design file is too big and heavy (ex. leaflet size = 528 mm X 440 mm)- Current computer status1. Laptop computer2. CPU: 2.60GHz3. RAM: 8G4. SSD: 256 GB SSD5. 1920 X 1080 (monitor)6. LED back light type (monitor)- Problems1. Sutting down2. Frequently warning message, not enough to memory (RAM)3. Cracked images4. Different color on one monitor (the colors between top of the monitor and bottom of the monitor look different, eventho

Hallo zusammen,ich arbeite derzeit an mehreren Motiven im 16 Bit Modus.Wenn die Datei recht aufgeblasen ist, bricht beim zoomen bzw. generell beim navigieren die Performance ein und es ruckelt oder hängt hin und wieder.Jetzt ist meine Frage, welche PC Komponenten für eine bessere Performance beim handling von 16bit (oder auch 32bit) Daten helfen können? Repsektive welche Komponenten hier überwiegend beansprucht werden?Mein Setup:I7 6700kGtx 1070 MSI32GB Ram 2133 MhzSSDIch würde gern mein System verbessern, weiß aber nicht wo da diesbezüglich anzusetzen ist.Schon mal vielen Dank und Grüße.

Has anyone used an intel Xeon Phi card to add cores to a windows system for use with Adobe software?I'm looking to use the additional cores to render comps out of After Effects. There's a simple script (BGrender) that allow you to launch a discrete version of After Effects in each seperate core so rendering is much quicker.We are already successfully doing this on our 28 core Windows machine. and have added the Xeon Phi to the machine but After Effects does not see the added cores.Any thinking would be welcome.Thanks,Mike

Hi,Samsung magician gave me a firmware update notification on my system today. It will be the latest one. Is it safe to install? Everything works fine now so don't want to mess things up. Any benefits to that update? Also I can't find any release notes.Thank you,Alex

Hey all!Quick question: I recently picked up an 8-bay Areca 8050T2. I also grabbed 8x 8TB Seagate IronWolf drives.I'm wondering what the best RAID setup for PP/AE? I'm using a Mac Pro with a 1TB drive as well.Should I do RAID 5? RAID 0 with constant backups? Something else? How should I set up PP/AE?Second question, if you don't mind: can I put my raw files on the RAID and ALSO render to the same RAID, or will that cause performance issues?Thank you all so much.

Hi,i want to handel Full HD Video. I will produce 14 Projects with 20min Video so i think i get 1000min Sourcefiles.Is this Setup ok?http://www.agando-shop.de/pdf/create/datenblatt.php?products_id=1920&config=1920{4}2053{9}1917{8}6482{10}6478{13}5722{1}… Best

Current systemWin7x64PROC: Samsung850EVO  OS & ProgramsE: Samsung960EVO  Assets and Exports currently being edited.L: WD4TB hard drive  for archiving all video&pictures after editing.I know that for top speed in crunching videos using PPro that it's recommended to turn Win7X64 indexing off.  After I recently replaced my 2 raid0 volumes and C:OS/Program Files, I can't find some of the files located on my new 4TB archive drive.  Using the search in Windows Explorer it can't even find the name "Steve" located in a window that's open with all the pics with the filename from the camera appended with Steve at the end of the name.  Is it ok to turn file indexing on for the drives that are not being used for reading video assets and writing exports to?  My 960EVO is only used for processing the videos and I assume indexing should be off for this drive.Can I turn on indexing for my C: & L:?Or, does the indexing use too much CPU when on in the backg

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I'm about to start working with a friend, editing video and photographs with Adobe Premiere Pro. I've never used this program before, and I need to purchase a laptop that is optimal for this program. I need expert advice on the best laptops for it. She has the 2017 version. Thank you for your time![Moderator note: moved to appropriate forum]

I recently replaced my 2 raid 0 volumes with a single Samsung 960 Evo.  it is 500G in size and fills up fast.  The OS and program files are on a separate 850 EVO.  I archive the assets, exports and project files on a 4TB hard drive when I've finished mixing them in PProCS6.  What is the best way to erase the files on the 960EVO?Delete?format?CCleaner drive wipe?Do any of these operations shorten the life of the SSD?Thanks

I use a PC I built a few years ago, with guidance from several of you here, and from one who has sadly passed away (I found out only yesterday about Harm's passing).The PC served my post production needs well in that time, but now requires some maintenance, plus an upgrade to the C: drive.Current specs at the bottom of this post.Now the time has come I must replace the C: drive. It isn't large enough for all the programs I want to install,including DaVinci Resole (which insists I keep current projects on that drive), the full Adobe CC Suite, and several others.My Questions are--1-- Would an SSD which plugs into a PCIe 3.0 slot work with my model of motherboard?2-- IF it does work, could it act as the C: drive and have my OS run on it?3-- If the above doesn't work, I'll just use an older style (but larger capacity) 2.5 inch SSD plugged into a SATA port.      any recommendations?4-- While I have the forum's attention. What kind of maintenance procedures should I