Supermicro workstation experience

[Davd Keator]

Way over priced…Build your own system, from my testing and experience, Sony vegas likes 4 cores the most. I get a whopping 3% performance boost on my six core 980x. I found that hyper threading reduced performance by 2.5% as well.

Find some one with an AMD 16 true core system. See if it helps, I doubt it.

A home built system for $1700 AMD’s fastest quad core, GTX 460 & GTS 250, 3 monitors, 3 HD’s is all you need for quick easy editing of R3D files.

Edit raw: render to Neo4k by Cineform, then when completed render to final delivery format.

Nothing at the moment does RealTime 4k with out RED’s Rocket…You can’t see it anyhow, unless you have a special $50K monitor…

[David Timar]

Thanks for the reply. I’ve tested some heavy duty computers, and unfortunately, it is Sony Vegas that is the bottleneck in playing back 4K files. It just cannot decode them on a low resolution, like Scratch for example.

Should should change Vegas to:
1. better access to the RED SDK, so you can adjust the decoding process, and not just the image attributes
2. support RED Rocket, and start really using GPU for playbacks

As it is now, Adobe Premiere CS5 wins this round, because it can easily play back multiple 4K R3D files natively, by utilizing GPU and Red Rocket support.