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Building a new rig, questions
Hello all,
I’m currently in the planning stages of upgrading my equipment, targeting getting a RED Scarlet after it’s released and needing something capable of working with footage from the camera without jumpiness. As far as I know the Scarlet (3K and possibly some different format than .R3D) may not be supported at the moment by Vegas, so let’s just say theoretically I want to be capable of working with 4K .R3D footage.
My question is, would it be worthwhile/necessary to build a Dual-Processor system based on a server motherboard using dual i7-920s? Or would a single-processor system potentially be capable? Does anyone have any experience with this?
Next question is regarding HDD issues– I am not sure what I need to be using for beefier footage I will be working with in the future; as of yet I haven’t had any need to do anything special working with almost entirely SD footage (not even a RAID setup) so I’m not sure where to start.. does anyone have any recommendations as far as RAID setups/Velociraptors/SSDs and the like that might be necessary for 4K footage?
Third Q is as far as memory goes, what’s a reasonable number to target? I’m thinking in the 12GB range running Windows 7 (x64).
And finally (and I think I can probably guess the answer to this one, but..) what are the odds that Sony will change their minds about GPU acceleration?
Mostly I’m just concerned because I feel like as much of a stutter as I’ve gotten trying to preview .r3d files I’ve gotten from redrelay, (on single proc Q6600) I worry a single i7-920 won’t be enough.
Thoughts?
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Here is what I based my build off of and am using today as my main editor. It works very well with Vegas but I could stand to add some more ram (I am currently using 8 gigs of ram when I should have around 16 gigs).
The system can handle previews fine but like with any other system running Vegas them more fx you add, the more your preview suffers. Also be aware that some codecs cannot make use of more than one thread so if you are running 8 cores, you may still only see one core getting used for rendering.
My advice would be wait until the scarlet is released and see if Vegas supports it at some point and then build a system that you can afford that will do what you need. Don’t build in advance as you will get a better system for the money later that will be built on what you know, not what you assume.
j razz
https://www.jrazzcreations.com
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