Video Hardware

I bought a G-RAID WITH THUNDERBOLT 2 AND USB 3.0 8TB (2-removable 7200RPM, USB 3.0, data transferUp to 480MB/s) I have a laptop and this thing is HUGE.  Would installing another SSD card (or 2) be a better option.  Would the editing speed be the same.  I'm could still return this thing.  I edit mainly 4K mov's and mp4 files on Premiere Pro.

In NLE, if you store original source footage on one HDD and import the footage into Premiere's media cache folder located on another HDD, can you then remove the HDD that holds the source footage and complete the project? Or will Premiere continue to rely on source files at some stage in the process?Also, if substantially all of the raw footage is to be included in the completed project, (i.e. you are not editing out much data), will the size of the media cache files for that project approximate the size of the original sources files?

Hi,I am looking for a suitable pc case for good cooling performance. I planed to got for the Fractal Design R5 but reviews say that appart form good hardware management and silence the cooling performance is pretty bad.There are various other options such as the Corsair Obsidian450D, Silverstone Fortress FT05 high, BeQuiet...  and other brands that might perform better. I don't need a silent case primarely. Cooling performance is more important.What do you guys recommand for 4K video editing and after effect projects? Help is much appreciated.Best,Alex

Hey everyone,If anyone could help me with this issue would be great!Here are my SPECS:- i7 3770k- 256gb SSDs in raid 0- 16gb ram- GTX 1060 6gb (upgraded from a GTX 660Ti recently)Here's the PROBLEM:- Playback 4k sequence- Starts off smooth- While monitoring CPU/GPU load i get between 50-85% CPU & 20-30% GPU- All of a sudden GPU drops to 0-1% and CPU usage is more or less the same but sometimes climbs to 95%I have the latest Nvidia drivers...I've tried creating a new project and just importing 2-3 4k video files and trying to play it back still get similar results...I cant seem to playback 4k video without the gpu dropping suddenly at random point and starts lagging up a storm!Any help is appreciated because I'm really going to give up on my rig.I never had any issued like this before.really considering switching to mac because i ran the same video files on Final Cut Pro... works flawlessly on a weaker i5 Macbook with an intel HD 5000.I dont understand why.

I'm planning to buy a new GPU for After Effect and Photoshop. I'm on a budget and I find rx 480 to be good price to performance card but when I looked at recent update of AE and PS, their system requirements, it confuses me.

Hi ,Starting fresh on after effects and premiere pro. Want to know if it is a decent machine to start off. especially want to know if the cooler is sufficient? any extra cooling needed for GPU? CPU Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core ProcessorCPU Cooler cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU CoolerMotherboard EVGA Z170 FTW ATX LGA1151 MotherboardMemory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 MemoryStorage OS Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State DriveScratch disk Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard DriveVideo Card EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING Video CardCase Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower CasePower Supply EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power SupplyMonitor Dell ST2421L 24.0" 1920x1080 Monitor

We are looking to replace our aging MacPros with iMacs. We edit in Premiere/After Effects, Photoshop, Audition and Illustrator.I see there are some optional configurations from Apple such as i7 processors, 7200 rpm hard drive and Fusion drive combos.We are tied to a Small Tree Titanium Z server and work exclusively 1920x1080p 29.97 projects.  We use Media Encoder to transcode our ProRes 422 masters to H.264 .mp4 web files at 10Gbps.We presently use NVDIA GTX680 cards to take advantage of the CUDA technology and speed up renders and performance.Does anyone have some practical experience and recommendation on how to configure a 27" or 21.5" iMac to get the best performance from Adobe Software?Thanks.

current systemi7-2600kASUS p8p67progtx560ti16g ramSamsung 850 EVO 500g os/programs2x1tb in raid0 for media&projects2x1tb in raid0 for exportsI just recently had my os/program c: disk take a dirt nap.  Got it successfully replaced with a Samsung 850 EVO 500g and loaded Win7x64 and CS6Master Collection.  After running the CD Mark program on my 2 raid0 volumes Bill here recommended some more improvements.This is what I now have on order:Samsung 960 EVO Series - 500GB PCIeAsus PCI3.0 4 M2 4 1 3PIN 32GBIT SUP PCIE SSD Only HYPERM.2X4MINICARDWD Blue 4TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD40EZRZI'm looking for info from those that have gone this route before or have the knowledge of the order of operations I need to follow.  I have around 2TB between the media & projects raid and exports raid i would like to move to the 4TB WDBlue drive.  At this time there are no extra SATA ports on the MB.  However, I do have a HDD dock on

Hi... I've got a three year old PPro editing system (windows) that I'm thinking of upgrading.  Of course, using the latest versions of Adobe CC 2017Currently using a intel 3770K (4-core) with 32GB RAM and an NVidia GTX960 with 4GB RAM.I've been hired for more and more 4K stuff and now shoot everything in 4K with a Sony a7S-II at 100Mbps.   With all respect, I'm not looking for a discussion of buying an external recorder for Pro-Res or using Cineform or anything like that.  I need to take stuff directly out of the camera and edit it.  In addition, I've purchased a Phantom 4 Pro that is able to use h.265 at 100Mbps and I want to use that, in-transcoded.About 50% of the time, the 4K coming out of my a7S-II plays great, but I get a lot of stuttering, which is usually solved for a short amount of time by stopping playback, waiting for a few seconds and starting again.   But as we all know, that interrupts the creative flow and usually ticks off clients!I a

Hi... I've got a three year old PPro editing system (windows) that I'm thinking of upgrading.Currently using a intel 3770K (4-core) with 32GB RAM and an NVidia GTX960 with 4GB RAM.I've been hired for more and more 4K stuff and now shoot everything in 4K with a Sony a7S-II at 100Mbps.   With all respect, I'm not looking for a discussion of buying an external recorder for Pro-Res or using Cineform or anything like that.  I need to take stuff directly out of the camera and edit it. In addition, I've purchased a Phantom 4 Pro that is able to use h.265 at 100Mbps and I want to use that, in-transcoded.About 50% of the time, the 4K coming out of my a7S-II plays great, but I get a lot of stuttering, which is usually solved for a short amount of time by stopping playback, waiting for a few seconds and starting again.   But as we all know, that interrupts the creative flow and usually ticks off clients!I am considering the following:Intel i7-6950X (10 core) with either 3

The new incoming Kaby Lake processors have built-in hardware decoding for certain video formats. I cannot find any info whether premiere and or AE have software support for this. Some say that probably only basic applications take use of these features and they dont affect pro editing applications. But still that's just an assumption and not real info.Now I'm running an overclocked i5 2500K which is getting way too slow for editing 4K footage. I shoot mainly with GH4. My plan is to wait until January until the kaby lake i7 7700K comes to market to build a new PC.Has anyone found any hard data how much the new processors decoding capabilities affect real world basic video editing with 4K footage or none at all, and more importantly has Adobe programmed software support for these hardware features?[moved to hardware forum for specialized help]

Hello,First let me present the actual setup : At the moment, we have 3 different options for the gpu : 1x GTX 1080, 1x GTX 970 or 2x GTX 770 connected by SLI.The processor is an i7 6700k.The RAM is 32 go ddr4 2133 mhz.We are editing 4k videos which we are exporting into h.264. The bitrate is 2,7 mb/s.We are taking the videos from a NAS Synology DS416PLAY and we are exporting there.We have 4 HDD in this NAS, ref. --> WD40EFRX-68WT0N0The way we edit our videos is really simple : we insert an intro/outro on Premiere Pro CC 2017, we have to sync 2 different videos (a capture and a screencast), an overlay and we also have to apply an effect (which i don't remember the exact name) to remove the fish-eye effect (something like go pro lens correction). Also our videos are between 30 mins and 1h40.We have 3 good computers for editing which takes the medias from the NAS, edit it and then export to the NAS, then we upload the exported videos on internet. So the connected thing and the possibil

Building my first PC. Any suggestions on my part list? Will this run 4k and after effects pretty well without too much bottlenecks? Am I missing any components or do you see any compatible issues? Could I make this $400-600 and still stay close to similar power and have a balanced pc. Should I run my OS and programs (after effects, etc.) on the 950 pro, and run my project files, scratch disc, and media cache on the 850 evo, and my media files on the wd 1tb? I think for the cooler I might use a Noctuna d15 instead of dark rock pro. Ill take any tips and all tips. I guess aside from the partlist Im most concerned on actually putting it together. Thanks.PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y9dFm8Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y9dFm8/by_merchant/CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($379.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler ($80.88 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 AT

So these are my specs first off.Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64 bitCP: Intel Core i5 6400 @ 2.70GHzRam: 8GB Dual-Channel @ 1064MHzGraphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950I'm trying out the trial version and it opens up fine, but there is lag. Also when I try to add a transition to a video and then play it, it starts to stutter and drop frams like crazy. The only thing I can think of is that I need more RAM, but wanted to make sure first.Thank You.

Will a Dell Precision T5500 Intel XEON Quad Core 2.28GHZ with Raid & 12GB Ram and Raid O handle 4K ?  H.264 movIncl  nVidia Quadro FX3800and a Dell Precision M6600 2.40 Ghz Quad Core, 16 GB Ram with Raid O and nVidia Quadro  2000M   2GB    GDDRS  ?   H.264 mov and AVCHD 4KBob Dix PhotographerFreelance Imaging & VideoAUSTRALIA[title edited by mod]

I am new to Editing & color grading,i am working for films,using Adobe CS6 & davinci resolve now i am looking for 2nd monitor(reference or preview purpose) which one is best to choose in budget.my monitor is dell 27 inch ips monitor,and what to choose second one ,is it a broadcast monitor or one more ips monitor is enough? broadcast monitor is expensive then which is best budget monitor to choose?plz help me

hi, everyone!i've been using adobe cc on a late 2008 macbook (it works sloooooowly) and i am planning on upgrading my mac. i just found a 2015 macbook with 40% off and i was wondering if i can use adobe cc 2017 on it. even with the m processor and its limits, it should work way better than with my 2008 antique, right?thanks!angel

My OS/Program hard drive died and I have to replace at least one hard drive.  After looking at the ssd vs raid thread, I'm thinking of replacing my 2 raid0 volumes with a single ssd. Then just adding a 4tb drive for backup. This is for running PProCS6.  I'd like to know how to deactivate my current CS6 (that was free upgraded from 5.5) and get it loaded back in the came computer with at least a new OS/Program SSD.  I've got the discs for CS5.5 Master Collection and the disc for Win7x64pro.  Win 10 was forced fed to my computer without my consent and I've been using it for a while.  I'm not really sure if I should stay with Win10, or Win7.  I'm not interested in buying any new Cloud version of this software in the near future.Any Ideas?Thanks

Am in the process of upgrading my PC and part of that was going to include moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10.  However I have just discovered that there are no Windows 10 drivers available for my Matrox O2 Mini which I use to output a HDMI signal from Premiere to a TV monitor.So what does everyone else do to monitor their timeline?Do you just use a computer monitor and set it to full screen?  I was never very happy with that solution.Has anyone tried the Matrox O2 Mini with the latest drivers with Windows 10 and Premiere CC2015?All advice welcome.

Hi, I just have more of a general question that I need a little help on.Unlike many here I still work on SD material like BetacamSP and other analog formats. I'm also dabbing into doing HD 1080p material (and will soon get a 1080p based pro video camera) and I don't have any equipment nor cameras for 4K stuff at this time.Question is, I plan to build a new workstation that will serve as both my DAW and Video editing system with PPro, PS and AE. I also plan to do alot of audio editing and music composition as well on the same machine, in which this will be in a 4U rackmount case.With that said, I have read that using the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD drive is the way to go mostly now for PPro project files and export. I've also read that the 960 Pro 1TB version of the M.2 drive is due out by the end of this month. As I still capture analog material with the AJA Kona LHi however, I was considering doing a RAID 0 with either two or four SSD's just for analog video capture, doing the projec

The list Adobe has on its site of recommended cards for GPU acceleration is quite out of date. If I want to look at a newer model card, are there specs that I can zone in on to ensure compatibility (e.g. # of CUDA cores/stream processors)?Thanks.

Hi, I'm looking into getting an iMac for video editing, as I've worked with them in the past with good results. I was wondering if the mercury playback engine (hardware acceleration) works on the 2016 iMac. I've heard you don't have to have an nVidia card for this to work, but then I also heard that you do. So I'm wondering which is correct.

Hi, I'm just started a company working with young people, and I need a laptop for editing some videos (short films/music videos).I was looking at a cheap laptop to be able to run Adobe Premiere and After Effects smoothly.I was told that this laptop would run smoothly:Lenovo Ideapad Y700 | 15 inch Gaming Laptop  | Lenovo India Can anyone confirm this? The graphics card is not listed on the Adobe's website but I was told it's compatible? Im new to this stuff so please help, thank you.

Hello,Currently, I have:CPU AMD FX 6100GPU NVIDIA GTX 650RAM 8 GBI am looking to buy new PC configuration which is suitable mainly for working with Adobe After Effect and Premiere Pro.I am on a tight budget - 1000$.So I have a few questions:What PC components will you recommend I should buy (CPU, GPU, and RAM)?Does After Effect use the stream processors of the AMD graphic cards?Which AMD processors do you recommend for After Effects and Premiere Pro?I am looking forward to your advice.

Hello Sir,Please recommend hardware configuration required for adobe premiere pro with regard to my usage-Length of video 20 minute ( 1080p at most)Thank you very much