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    Adobe Premiere + HP Z8

    Posted by Jacek Golosz on December 19, 2019 at 10:47 am

    Hi,

    Does anyone have any experience editing in Premiere on HP Z8 G4 (Z3Z16AV) workstation?

    Despite the top of the shelf spec:
    CPU: 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6136 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 2993 Mhz, 12 Cores
    Memory: 96GB DDR4 2666 DIMM ECC
    GPU: NVIDIA Quadro P6000 24GB
    Disks: 2x 1TB SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HALR-000H2

    The editing experience is awfull. The scrubbing is laggy, the playhead reacts with almost second delay.
    Rendering the sequence doesn’t help. The only thing that’s fast is export.
    What’s more, while playing the footage or scrubbing in Premiere or AE, I’ve got this horizontal lines on the timeline:
    https://i.imgur.com/P1GbDF2.jpg

    I’m editing 1080p ProRes 422 HQ footage so it’s not very demanding, no colour correction, no luts, or effects.
    The system, apps and cache/scratch is located on one disk, and the material.

    Frankly speaking, Premiere is faster on my 7 years old MBP with 1/16 of power of this machine.
    I’d be grateful for any ideas that might help.

    Cheers,
    Jack

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    Oliver Peters replied 6 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Herb Sevush

    December 20, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    [Jacek Golosz] “The system, apps and cache/scratch is located on one disk, and the material.”

    This might be one source for your problems. Ideally the OS, The Cache, and the media should each be on their own drives. Especially the OS and the Media; Adobe strongly suggests they not be on the same drive.

    Herb Sevush
    Zebra Productions
    —————————
    nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
    \”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

  • Jacek Golosz

    December 23, 2019 at 10:31 am

    I know it’s not ideal solution, however these M.2 SSDs have read/write speeds around 2000MB/s and I’d better editing experience working on a single SSD with 500MB/s speeds or even HDD.

    Still, thanks for the reply Herb

  • Oliver Peters

    December 23, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    It’s not speed. 7200RPM spinning disks are fine for 1080 media. I agree with Herb. See if you can add an internal drive for media. Test that and if it performs better, then consider adding 2 to 4 internal drives, RAID 0 (2 drives) or RAID 5 (4 drives). Just for media. 7200 RPM “pro” drives 4TB each or larger.

    Oliver

    Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

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