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Kaila May
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November 17, 2019
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New PC | Best Setup | High performance | MultiBoot Linux Mint & Windows 10 | Premiere & DaVinci

  • November 17, 2019
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Hi,

it's been a long time since I was in charge of a PC and so I seek for the community wisdom to help me find a right setting.

For a video editing project I will be provided with a new PC, and I want to make sure to get the best out of the specs.

Does somebody have experience with Multiboot Linux/Windows and using Premiere/DaVinci here?

The inital idea was to partitionate the hard drive so in case I would habe to install Windows and set up a Multi Boot. So I basically I wanted to start with Linux Mint and in any case Mint + DaVinci could not fulfill all the needs have a Windows 10 Premiere option.

Then I got following hints:
1) Not to start with Linux, because Windows will mess up the boot-table etc.
2) Not to formate the SSD (only the SATA) because it might effect the rfficiency and speed of the editing work

So now I am very uncertain what would be the best way to set up the PC. Would it be really bad to partionate the SDD? If Partioning is okay: Where to put Linux, Davinci, windows and the data then?
Not to partione, starting with linux and if needed partition later the SSD/ or the HDD?

Does somebody have experience with Multiboot Linux/Windows and using DaVinci here?
What would be the best set up for high quality and to get the most out of the PC and Video Editing Software like Premiere/DaVinci?


Here are few of the specs of the PC:

  •  Western Digital WD Blue 4 TB, 3,5 ", SATA
  • Samsung SSM 970 PRO 512 GB / M.2 / NVMe 1.3 / SSD
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 8x 3,60 GHz, [
  • Kingston HyperX Predator 32 GB / DDR4-2666 / Kit
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 1785 MHz, 6 GB GDDR6, 192 Bit, 12000 MHz, PCI
    Express x16 3.0, 1 x HDMI (2.0b), 3 x DP (1.4), CUDA, DirectX 12.0, OpenGL 4.5

 

I am not quite sure what information you may need to get a good picture of the situation, so please let me know if you need something else. Also I would be curious what you think of the set up for working with DaVinci, since I did not order it and I am really not up to date, anything newer compared to my old equiptment is a massive upgrade for me.

Thank you for taking time to read my post and I am looking forward to your opinions, feedbacks, tricks & tips.

Cheers!

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Kevin-Monahan
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Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
Community Manager
November 17, 2019

This is the kind of build I would avoid. Why bother with adding Linux to your editing rig when your NLE software runs perfectly fine on Windows? Not seeing the advantage here, nor did you mention why you need to do such a thing, other than have Linux on board for some mission critical need that I am not seeing. What do you really need to do with this box other than NLE? Curious.

 

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
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Kaila MayAuthor
Participant
November 18, 2019

Hi Kevin,

 

thank you for your reply.

Well I did wanted to avoid installing Widnows 10 because I am not a fan of it especially when it comes to all the "spy software", computer monitoring and gaining access to the file storage seeams very inappropiate to me. And at first I thought it might be quite easy for me to start with Linux and DaVinci, but since I do not have any experience if it will serve the needs I wanted to have the option to add Windows 10 and Premiere.

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