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Is the HP Z820 Workstation Class Machine…
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Hi Duke –
Give yourself 12 minutes with this Adobe video on setting up your HP Z800 for Premiere; it will give you the hows and whys of what to expect. As far as your questions go, it’s going to depend hugely on what codecs you’re feeding to Premiere Pro, as well as what version of PPro you’re working with. I’m still on CS6, so if you’re on a later version (somewhere in the CC versions), I think you should see a greater difference in speed. I don’t know whether Neat Video is programmed for hyper-threading, so that’s a question to check out on their website. Also bear in mind that this video is talking about CS5.5, but all of the general information will apply:
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Thanks, precisely what I was looking for!
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Oh no! Does this thing not have an SD Card slot? If not how can I get my footage into it? Don’t say buy an SD card adapter, I’ve already spent way more money than I should have on this, and this is precisely what I was afraid of, having to run out and buy extra stuff just to get up and running.
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Nope…it does not. That said, you can pick one up on *Bay for under 10 bucks for an external which plugs into a USB slot, of which there are many.
I just picked one out of thin air, there are dozens. HP also made a dedicated card reader (an internal one) which goes in one of the 5.25 slots on the upper front of the Z800, but there’s no reason to spend thirty or forty bucks on something where you can do the same job for under ten. Just make sure your card model is compatible with the reader.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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In the meantime I can just plug my camera into a USB port, right? On the off chance I send this back I don’t need an extra card reader. Once I know I’m keeping it, then I’ll get an external card reader. Can’t beat free shipping!
Oh, I was just wondering about something. I was watching a youtube video where this guy was demonstrating 4K video in Premiere Pro on a Z800 and it scrubbed and played smoothly, but when he so much as added a “Day4Night” lumetri preset it bogged down. How can that be? My current computer doesn’t even bog down on 1080p with a lumetri look added to it.
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I think it would depend on what version of PPro he was using as well as what codec the 4K video was. There are 12 USB 2.0 ports on the Z800 – 3 on the front, plus a FireWire port on the front should you need it. If you reach the point where you need USB 3.0, you can buy a card for about 10 dollars.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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It was old. CS5 I think. It still had the gnurled scrubbing knobs 😉
I went back and looked at it again and noticed he was using a laptop when that happened. He was going to transfer the file to the Z800 afterward.Another question. The one I’m getting has Windows 7 installed. Should I let it update to Windows 10 or keep Windows 7?
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I’m still on Win 7 and very happy with it, running the CS6 complete suite. It’s stable as can be – I never trusted 8, and once you accept the “free” 10 upgrade, it appears you’ll be locked in to a rental type agreement forever, although I don’t know if that’s really true. But I do know you can’t go wrong with 7.
No wonder he was having problems – a laptop! I have the CS5.5 suite on my Lenovo W510 workatation (core i7, 16GB of RAM, fastest Nvidia laptop card), and it’s poky compared to my workstation. Laptops just do not measure up to desktops – it’s a size for power tradeoff.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
7 it is!
3 more days until my new toy comes!
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If I sync up the Z800 with a lesser computer does that drag down the performance or will it benefit from the 12 extra gigs of RAM? Obviously the RAM will help but will the extra hard drive help, if it’s a consumer PC quality HD? I have an HP “Envy”, not sure why it’s called that. Should I cannibalize it and add the beneficial components to the Z800?
The RAM is DDR-3, hard drive is SATA type, solid state.
If this is the wrong forum for such questions, I apologize.
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