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Making the mostof my Workstation.
Ok so I read through the FAQ section and I couldn’t really find anything specific to my questions. I just built a fairly fast PC for running the Adobe Production Suite. I heavily use the Dynamic Link and After Effects is the program I primarily work in. Here is what I’ve got inside the computer:
Dual Xeon E5530s – 8 total cores (16 Threads/Theoretical Cores)
24GB of DDR3 1333 Memory (PC3 10600)
nVidia Quadro CX (1.5GB/384bit)
OS Drive – 160GB 7,500RPM
Media Drives – 300GB 10,000RPM RAID
OS – Vista 64 Ult.I mainly use after effects but also do 1080p video editing in premiere.
So here are my questions:
What settings should I use for After Effects?
Should I use Multiprocessing or Open GL (It’s one or the other right?)
If Multiprocessing- What should I set my ‘Allocation per CPU’ to? (.5/1/2/2.8)
Should I get some 15,000K Drives?
Should I get another Quadro CX for SLI?
Should I get a different type of video card like the Matrox RT.X2 or something?
What’s the difference between the Matrox and the Quadro? One is more for AE and the other Premiere?
Should I get any specific Plug-Ins for any of the Adobe Programs? Background rendering isn’t a huge benefit to me, just faster rendering, exporting, and editing.Thanks!
Joshua
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Excellent! Thanks so much Dave.
I’ll see if I can get a small dedicated server with some fast drives. I know HD footage requires lots of space, but most things I work on are 30-60 seconds long. What kind of RAID would I want it configured in? As for the footage; I mainly use (in Premiere) exports from 3D programs and Dynamic links from After Effects. I don’t often use video footage in After Effects, but when I do, what would you say is a good codec to work/edit with? (1080p)
Speaking of what codec to work with, I’m actually having trouble with finding a good 1080p codec to use with Premiere. I’ve tried NUMOUROS combinations of codec with different sequence settings and I’ve found that only the H.264, H.265, and MPEG 2 compressions seem to work well in Premier under most sequence setting modes. I would have thought uncompressed AVI’s would be best.
Here’s the results from a test I did, the circles mean the footage imported and had no yellow or red lines and played back smoothly. The test was with 720p footage and settings.
https://www.appearim.com/Downloads/Chart.JPGOk So Don’t use Open GL. Got it!
Do you know much about the video-card thing? I’m under the impression that the Quadro cards are for effects rendering, 3D work, and that sort of thing; computing power. The Matrox card I would assume is made more for high transfer of video data to allow HD footage to be worked with easily and quickly. Does this sound right? Do most computers have one or the other? Since most computers are more specific to their tasks (ie. AE graphics machine, Editing Workstions (premiere/Avid/FCP), Render Farms, etc.)
Also – I just got Elemental Accelerator to play around with. Are there lots of plug-ins like this build for rendering?
Thanks again Dave. Good Information, I appreciate the help a lot!
Joshua
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Hi Dave,
You helped me out a while ago on a project that I was working on, and I remember this your stock answer regarding problem codecs and AE. Very helpful — thanks.
I am starting on another project and will be capturing my HDV footage with Cineform’s NeoScene. The original footage is M2T, but NeoScene will convert this to the Cineform codec with an AVI wrapper in real time during capture. I do plan on using AE CS3 for this project, so just wanted to make sure that this codec wouldn’t pose problems like the ones you mention in your stock answer.
Thanks,
Adam Shamoon
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