Video Hardware

Hello everyone!I would like to thank anyone in advance for their help. I am the sole video producer for a hospitality company and have a very large creative leash in what I can create but am often bottle-necked by frequent crashes, painful loading times, complete computer lock-ups, and various other issues. I have to believe that professionals who work with this software don't encounter these issues as frequently as I am and I need to pinpoint what might be bottle-necking my rig. I work most commonly with 4K 10-bit footage and use various 2D and 3D effects through after effects and even some other applications such as Maya. My systems specs are listed below, this is the rig our IT department provided for meSystem Manufacturer: Dell Inc.System Model: Precision Tower 5810System Type: x64-based PCProcessor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz 3.5 GHzGraphics Card: (2) Nvidia Quadro M4000Hard Drive: ATA ST2000DM001-1ER1 SCSI Disk DeviceRam: 16gbThe first thing that I can see might be

Just curious how many people jump at these new super components.  They are high on my wish list but I have to justify every dollar these days.

My previous Mac online workstation had an AJA KONA 3 card for playing out HD material to the client monitor.I am now building a PC/Win10 Premiere workstation and thinking do I really need a specialised I/O card just for realtime playback? Is playing out through the NVidia GTX HDMI outputs not enough if all I need is 1080p for the moment?If not then which card plays better in a PC/Windows 10 environment - AJA Kona 4 or Blackmagic Decklink 4K Pro?

Hello,  I am Willing to Purchase a System that Could run all the products of Adobe Creative Clouds That includes Designing, Animation, Motion Graphics , Video Editing and All.. I usually Use Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, After Effect, Premier , But in the Current Spec of my Notebook i am unable to Enjoy the Fully Funtionality of these Softwares because my Notebook hangs and does allow me to use them in their full Limits .. Therefore i Decided to purchase a System .. I Choosed the Specifications Intel Core I5 (3rd Generation ) 8 or 16gb Ram 1TB HD GPU?Wanted to know what is open GL support?Gl4?Graphic Card?? I wanted to know which Graphic card is best that supports all these Softwares , i seriously dont know anything about Graphic Cards about Their bits and their performance,.. The Local Computer Hardware Shop Told me For Nvidia FX3800 256 bit Could be Best for me .. Please Help me out in Choosing The Right Graphic CardFurther with this PC i need to increase my Skills for 3D Des

Trying to export a large video file via H.265 in Premiere Pro CC 2017 (up to date). Render is estimating a whopping 864 hours, would adding an additional 32GB RAM make a significant difference in expediting render/export time?Current specs: Late 2013 MacPro, 32GB 1866 MHz DDR3 Ram, 3.5 GHz 6-core E5 Thanks for your help!

Hi,My new 2017 5K iMac is arriving in a few days and I need help figuring out what external hard drive setup I am going to use. Being fairly new to video, I need help.I will keep my current projects footage on an external drive that connects through iMac's T3 port. I would need something that can handle 4K.Things I am considering but don't know if they're fast enough to handle most 4K projects:OWC Dual RAID enclosure (T2 / 474MB/s)G-Tech RAID (T3 / 500MB/s)G-Tech single drive (T3 226MB/s / single 7200 hard drive)LaCie d2 (T3 240MB/s / single 7200 hard drive)The price is important, so if I can get away without a RAID system, I'd like to do that. If not, then I'd like to know if G-tech RAID is sufficiently fast.Thanks you!

Hi everybody ! Do you know "Laptops" models (PC or Macbook) for video montage compatible with Adobe première CC (Graphic card 100% supported (Cuda compatible) ?Thank for your answer

Where is the best location for the Media cache files, In order to enjoy optimal software performance?I have 3 drives on my system. drive C for windows and software (SSD) ,  Drive D for Data (SATA) And another SSD Drive for the projects files and the footage.Thanks for your help!

What would be best: i7-6700hq vs i5-7300hq for premiere pro? How much does the i7-6700hq hyper threating do for the editing?

Hallo, my pc using i3 4170, ram ddr3 8gb. Ssd samsung 850evo 250gbI will by vga card gtx 750ti 2gb..Can i runing smoth adobe premiere cc 2017?Or what vga can i use for smothly runing?Thanx

Originally was going to go with a x99 mobo platform but learned that they are on their way out. With that I was going to go for the i-7 6900k off of people's recommendations (puget), but now I'm thinking to switch to the x299 platform despite the bad press. I would probably go with the i-9 7900k since it's the proper entry cpu to the system. Are the heating issues as bad as people say?Here's my intended setup - please help me in deciding components. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ Like I stated in the title I'm switching from the OSX because I need a proper editing station for the right cost.

What kind of laptops with active stylus are people using?  I went to Best Buy to look at a few 2 into 1 laptops and the sales person said that not all touch screen laptops can use an active stylus.  I didn't believe them and went to home to Google my question and apparently there aren't a lot of active stylus answers.  I figured that there was a knock off pen that could support drawing for Illustrator, Animate, and Photoshop, but I can't find anything for it.

Hello,I'm trying different export scenarios for an HD XDCAM EX 1080i (HQ) 25fps sequence.If I use the default PAL DV AVI or OP1a XDCAM EX 35mbps preset with CUDA accelerated MPE(Mercury playback engine) the CPU usage on export is 80%+ and the export is very fast.If I use the default OP1a SD presets with CUDA accelerated MPE the export speed is very slow and CPU usage is below 10%.If I use any other "custom" SD or HD AVI codec setting CPU usage on exports falls below 10% with CUDA accelerated MPE.CPU usage stays at below 75% with software only rendering. Export with software only MPE is a bit slower than with hardware accelerated MPE with default presets.Is there a particular reason for CPU usage to fall with custom settings?Premiere is 2017.1.2Media Encoder is 2017.1.2The system is Lenovo Thinkpad W520CPU: Intel Core i7 2760QMGPU: Quadro 2000MRAM: 8GB[Moderator note: moved to appropriate forum]

Anyone is waiting to read something about the performance in the real video editing world of the new AMD Threadrippers?

I'm planning on buying a laptop to work with Premiere Pro & After Effects.  I'd like to keep the budget around $1800.FYI I am from Belgium.Thanks a lot for your help

So, this popped up on Newegg ...ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 DirectX 12 ZT-P10700G-10M 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card-New… At $479USD ... and given I need a card fairly soon ... decent deal?Neil

I have been provided a free copy of Premiere Pro CC and been able to help people with for years now but I have just been auto notified that my subscription is expiring in a few days.  So long everyone

Helloi have premiere 2017 pro , and i try to render movie and i get BSOD screen, i managed to understnad that only when my CPU works on turbo mode i get these screen and only in render in 720P and up, so i disable these turbo mode and everything is works correct (except two times i got the BSOD)my hardware is :i7-4790K8GB ram (checked and found ok in memtest 86+)geforce 970GTX (also tried to work without him)asus maximus vii rangerssdin other laptop the render was okso what is the problem?thank you

I found my gpu performance monitoring software was showing a very little usage (or none) when using Premiere Pro 2017 in tasks where supposedly are accelerated by the graphics card such as warp stabilizer, exporting, etc. I only was able to see certain peaks of activity but inmediatelly go down to 0% and searching the web and this forum I found other people are worried about this.Is the GPU helping?So I made some test.Here is my build:i7 3820 oc at 4,6ghz 4 cores 8 threads (this old boy keeps giving nice performance)32gb ramgtx 1050 tios and apps in SSDproject files, cache, renders and exports in a Samsung 960 evo m.2 disk via pcie adapterI did some test with and without gpu acceleration in project settings with two 17 sec clips 1080 50p and 4k 25p(gigabyte gpu monitoring software and GPU-z is what I use to see activity)*minutes                          &nbs

I only find comparisons for gaming but what would you recommend for serious video and photo work?

Hello everybody.Does anybody work with Premiere 2017 on system with 2 CPUs? I've got one CPU and want to boost it a bit and I wonder if the second CPU worth it or it would be better to buy a new CPU to solve the issue. (My system is 1x Xeon 2620v4 + 1x nvidia quadro M4000).

Hi there,I have to switch from Final Cut to Premiere Pro so I can collaborate better with my co-worker.Since I'm not really experienced with PP I need some advice regarding the ideal setup of the drives and so on.This is what I'm working with:i7-6700K @4.0 GHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GBSamsung 950 Pro 512GB (M.2 NVME)SanDisk Ultra II 480GB SSDCrucial 64GB Kit (16GBx4) DDR4 2133 MT/sI installed Windows 10 and all the apps on the slower SanDisk SSD (C:). In the Premiere Preferences under Media Cache I selected the faster NVME drive (D:) for the Media Cache Files and the Media Cache Database. I also selected the "Automatically delete cache files older than:" and set it to 30 days.When I start a project, I put all the raw footage and project files to the faster 😧 drive.The available RAM for Premiere Pro was set to 40GB with about 22GB reserved for other applications. Does that look ok to you and are there settings I forgot to tweak?The footage consists of 4k material shot with the S

What's the difference between the cards?

Hi guys,I'm looking for some expert recommendation for a new computer I'm aiming to build. Of course, budget is an issue but I've narrowed down few options and I'll really like to hear your thoughts. I'm working mainly on Premiere and After Effects. So here are my options:1. CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K / 1151 Tray 3.6 GHzGPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 GV-N1070D5-8GD-BMotherboard: ASUS PRIME – Z270-AMemory: 2X16 DDR42. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X AM4 BoxGPU: ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL-GTX1060-O6GMotherboard: Asus PRIME X370-PROMemory: 2X16 DDR43. CPU: Intel Core i7 6800K 2011-V3 BoxGPU: ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX-GTX1060-O6G-GAMINGMotherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AMemory: 2X16 DDR44. CPU: INTEL i7 5820K 6 cores 3.3GHZGPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AMemory: 2X16 DDR45. CPU: Intel Core i7 7700 / 1151 TrayGPU: Palit GeForce GTX 1080 SUPER JETSTREAM 8GB  Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AMemory: 2X16 DDR46. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X AM4 BoxGPU: ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL-GTX1060-6GMotherboard: A

When I start a new project, I cant seem to pick the options under Generel then Renderer. It has Mercury Playback Engine Software Only written in it. Any reason why?