Alex Gerulaitis
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[Patryk Rebisz] ” Thus my question is why would she need a $3k machine?”
She doesn’t. You can get a computer for under $2K and even under $1K that will work fine. The configurations I mentioned are for “pro” editors that also:
– are configured for balanced performance vs value in terms of Premiere Pro system recommendations and requirements
– optimized for GPU acceleration in Pr
– have room to add storage, I/O cards, memory, etc.
– are RAID-readyAlex Gerulaitis
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See this round up in another thread.
It seriously depends on the budget and what type of editing your girlfriend does.
My favorite (on paper, I haven’t actually tested it) is Dell T7600: starts at about $4-5K for a decent configuration that’s suitable for Premiere Pro. An HP Z820 costs about the same. For $8K-12K, a well configured T7600 or HP Z820 may get into the top 50 PPBM5 results.
If you need someone to customize and configure it for you, yours truly will be happy to.
That said, you can get a very decent non-major-brand system for under $3K – as long as it’s properly configured for Premiere Pro purposes. ADK and Puget Systems are two known integrators specializing in just such systems.
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Hi Cara,
[Cara Myers] “The ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB graphics card was doing great (absolutely no complaints) until I added a 55″ Panasonic TC-P50GT50 55″ Plasma television and a Black Magic Intensity Card to run HDMI out to it. Now, I’m getting quite of bit of lag/delayed lip sync out of the Plasma and have narrowed it down to the Graphics Card as being the issue, which was quite a disappointment because I bought it specifically to run 3 monitors out of!”
Is your plasma connected to the ATI card, or to Intensity?
How did you determine that the graphics card was the culprit? (From what I hear, an add-on video I/O card like Intensity is the one usually lagging behind preview on your main displays, and the issue is not graphics card related.)
[Cara Myers] “Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the Quadro4000 or the GeForce GTX 285 would be the best solution or if there’s another card I’m not seeing? “
Quadro 4000 is the best of them although it may not solve the lag problem, and will not drive three monitors.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Here are a few facts:
– Can’t get CUDA performance on ATI cards.
– CUDA is an exclusive nVidia technology.From what I understand, CUDA is much faster than OpenCL for Adobe Premiere Pro GPU acceleration purposes.
On PPBM5 site, you won’t see a single ATI card in top 200 results.
See also:
– OpenCL and Premiere Pro CS6 (Adobe blog by Todd Kopriva)
– “OpenCL acceleration on Macbook Pro with Certified card is BAD”
– “Re: ATI 5770 and Premiere Pro CS6”Hope this helps.
Alex Gerulaitis
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CUDAs are on nVidias only. Need an nVidia card to get max performance in Premiere Pro.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Not sure why this happening.
Just for reference:
My h458 tests at 230MB/s writes and 200MB/s reads over eSATA, with four Hitachi 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 drives in RAID5 mode.
Last time I benched it over USB3.0, the rates were around 140-170MB/s.
Have you tested the drives individually in the h458 box before you RAIDed them?
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Jon Barrie] “whats the K in the K2000m?”
A refresh of the mobile Quadro chips.
Twice the Cuda cores vs. prev gen non-“k” versions, more features.
That means they are not officially supported by Adobe, and you have to add your Quadro K to the Adobe configuration file. Instructions in the bottom here (Studio 1 Productions FAQ):
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5-2.htm
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[Shawn Larkin] “Since we don’t really need the speed bump on our network, I thought replacing drives made the most sense.”
Totally.
[Shawn Larkin] “What do big companies do: recycle and swap drives or just add new stuff?”
AFAIK both depending on circumstances; your existing tech is still quite fast, viable and compatible with current and future tech releases (SAS 6G, 12G), so there very little point in retiring it.
Further, don’t have to swap the whole drive set just because one drive is close to, or past SMART thresholds: swap just that drive. Drives can work 10+ years without showing much wear.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Daniel,
Where are you located and could you give me a few more details on the demo? (I.e. anything specific you want to demonstrate, how large is the group, is it a specific event / venue, or something yet to be arranged, etc.)
I will be happy to get you in touch with an Adobe rep.
(Feel free to contact me, ag at dv411 dot com.)
Thanks!
Alex Gerulaitis
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Enclosures with MiniSAS connectivity and without a SAS expander built in, require a standard 4-lane MiniSAS connector for each 4 drives. So two cables are required for your Enhance 8-bay E800MS box as long as you have more than 4 drives in it.
Enclosures with a SAS expander built-in (most of the boxes with more than 8 bays; some 8-bay boxes) require only one cable.
(On a side note: some advanced expanders can still use two cables to create a so called “wide” port for increased throughput.)
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA