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Gotta sort my rig out…Any help?
Hello all,
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I myself seperate OS, progs & data files to physical drives, but I run prem pro2 and ae7 on the OS drives with windows, I just find it runs better, also make sure you have OS on the fastest drive.
You have a nice rig, I use 800 ram only beacuse I found no noticable performance between them and 1066 for price it made no sense to go there. but if you can afford it get the fastest as you mobo does support it.
Austen Mathieson
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Also, I’ve been told ae doesn’t like xp64, haven’t really had time to try it myself as swamped but might be worth looking into that
Austen Mathieson
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What kind of video editing software are you going to use?
If your intent is to use AE as an editing software… well, that is definately the least efficient way to go about editing.
A lot of your system demands will be dependent upon your NLE of choice. Most editing software has a list of audio and video cards (specially video cards) that are tested to be stable with that particular software. You need to review recommended audio and video cards for the particular NLE you use (or will use).
What you seem to have posted is a very powerful machine… but, whether or not it is a stable machine depends heavily upon the software compatibility with your hardware. And… in many cases the newest hardware can turn out to be the most problematic since many editing software can not keep up with faster developing hardware and their drivers (…which seems to be the case with some software and 8800 video card combintions).
As for your choices… it is difficult to say whether or not it is a stable platform and you will not pull your hair out when a crash occurs that results in lost work. However, when it comes to HD’s, you can never have to few. In fact, my editing software uses a complete seperate (physical) hard drive for rendering… this dedicated Rending HD makes the rendering much faster.
Also, you might spend a lot of time on developing a multple backup system for your work. In terms of backing up projects, the best editing software I know is Avid/Pinnacle Liquid… this software backs up every 1/30ths of a second without any loss of computing power. Bascially, you can not loose any work as a result of crash.
As for Mocha… I’ve not found (nor read or heard) it to be hardward picky. However, it does have some bugs with regard it saving the work properly… especially true with complex and long roto-projects.
My best suggestion I have is this…I would be more concerned about stability than just power. And this depends very heavily on EVERY piece of hardware that is choosen relative to the OS AND software you use for editing.
FWIW Joe Moya
BTW, … make sure you use that OS for editing ONLY (…which happes to also make DUAL BOOT systems a very viable option)… adding stuff on an editing machine will at some point cause you grief. And… you might make sure you buy a battery back up… I didn’t see any mention of this on your list.
Joe
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Right now I’m using a Quad6600 on a Gigabyte P35 DS4 with 8GB Ram at 800Mhz on XP64.
and … it runs great !!– Overclocking the Q6600 to 3GHz won’t give you any problems, It can handle the extra GHz, just look at a good cooler (not stock!)
– 800 to 1066 GHz for Ram only gives you a minor increase
– The Asus strike is a good bord and asus regulary releases a new bios
– Make the 80GB drive your system drive and put the 2 500GB disks in Raid0 for better performance.(Backup program files to the 80 GB drive)
– AE doens’t really use the graphic card, buy a 8800GT instead of the 8800GTS, it’s an affordable card and the performance is as good as the 8800GTS (Google!)
– Nucleo gives extra functionality over the built in Multiprocessor render in AE. Search the forum on nucleo, definitely worth to look at !AE works very good on XP64 but Quicktime doesn’t really like it, the problems I’ve had were minor and could always be solved with Image-Sequences.
Multiprocessor rendering or Nucleo can really benefit from the Raid setup, an extra 500GB drive for the Raid could help!
just my opinion
cya,
Jan
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Mocha should be fine with that card. My old GeForce 5200 runs it no probs. A better card would probably help interactivity in the canvas a bit though.
I use a HDD for OS/apps, one for project files and stills/audio, etc and then a 2 x 400GB RAID 0 for footage and renders. Tends to work pretty well. One thing I am guilty of is having a few non-pro apps installed aswell. I don’t edit that much so not too important, but its been pretty stable nevertheless.
*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3 / Mocha v1
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5 monitors / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0 -
Thanks for the input guys
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Looks like a nice setup !
A 440W power supply would be “on the edge” in case of the 6disks raid, get a 500W or even better 600W power supply. Take a look at OCZ or Coolermaster they are very stable!!,silent and have a high energy efficiency wich will earn their cost back in the long run (energy bills!)
Make sure you keep the raid on the Intel Raid controller for best performance.
As you said; 6xRaid0+1(750GB) is faster than 4xRaid0+1(1000GB), not only in throughput but also in disk access. Let’s say you have 5 Picture-in-pictures in your comp and render to the same Raid, here you’ll see a major speedincrease using more disk in your Raid0 setup.
Overclocking the Q6600 would need a decent Coller too.
cya,
Jan
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Thanks Jan,
Nice tips…I’ll let you know how she runs, once I have it built. Again thanks for the advice.
Bang,bang
TOM
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Man, I’m so glad this was posted. This will really help me in building my own system.
Are you building this yourself? If not, may I ask from whom you are ordering?
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I’m having someone put it together…Hoping to watch so I know how to do it next time.
I live in Melbourne, Australia. So if your in the area I can help you out on what I know so far.
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