Chris Brearley
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I’m in the same boat. My monitor doesn’t support 1080 25fps so I get nothing. Strangely, if I work at 2k 16:9 25fps then I get a signal although the resizing quality of it is absolutely shocking. Seems like a bit of an oversight not to give us a 25pfs option like it had before mercury transmit.
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I would phone Mesh to complete my order rather than do it online and specify that you wanted the SSD as the boot drive. They would probably do this anyway but it’s best to make sure.
By the time Windows is installed as well as your other software you’re only going to have 70Gb or so left on that drive and you DO NOT want to fill up your boot drive. I find ideally you want 100Gb+ plus for disk caching as well but you can specify any amount in the preferences. See how you get on using 40-50Gb using your boot drive. It would be faster than the 1TB sata but I myself do not like to use the boot drive for such things. Instead I prefer to have one drive for one job – Boot, disk cache, footage, backup. If you find that you need more than 400-50gb then use the 1TB sata or get a second SSD later on – the price of them is dropping all the time.
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The 660 should come with enough clout, but you can obviously get more performance by spending more but you are better spending money elsewhere to be honest. There is a TI version which is overclocked and comes with more cuda cores – incidentally this is the one that is in the Scan system – it’s an option…
If you select an SSD as the boot drive then yes windows will come installed on that as well as all your other software which is definitely what you want. Your programmes will launch in an instant and everything will be a lot snappier.
If you get a second SSD you can tell AE to use that for disk caching in it’s preferences. This will help to speed up the performance of AE. It’s not vital and you could use your 1TB Sata drive instead but every bit helps. Disk caching does help slightly but not as much as Adobe would have you believe, processing power is still what it’s all about.
If you wanted to go crazy you could get a 3rd SSD for your footage which is what I have. If you have really big uncompressed image sequences than you will see the benefit of this but for most footage a Sata drive is fine. A third drive is a good option as ideally you want your AE disk cache on a separate drive to your footage. Just to confuse you further, you could get 2 sata drives and RAID 0 them together instead of an SSD.
Chris
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Yes the i7-3770 is the faster of the two processors and the reason why the second computer is cheaper is because Mesh are cheaper than Scan it seems… If only I’d have known before dropping 3 grand on my new machine! Oh well… The motherboard and power supply unit in the scan machine are of slightly better quality but there’s nothing wrong with the ones in the Mesh – they will do the job.
Looks like you’ve specced yourself a pretty good machine. The only thing I would suggest if you are doing a serious amount of After Effects work is to get 32gb of ram as I find an HD timeline will soon gobble 16gb and a second SSD drive for disk caching if you can stretch to it. If not these are both things you can get at a later date if you wish anyway. If you do get 16gb ram, get the 16GB DDR3 1866MHz Memory (2x8GB) Kit [£ 54.00] as opposed to the 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Memory (4x4GB) Kit [£ 36.00] so you still have two slots left open for upgrades later.
Chris
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Tek Syndicate have some great advice, have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYR3Q17_8g&list=PL441D9BF9F40D0E5E&index=6
You use pounds so I’m assuming you are based here in the UK. Have a look at the 3XS systems by scan. They are amazing value and will build and configure (including overclocking) it for you to get the most bang for your buck. This system would be a good place to start https://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=1206
Hope this helps.
Chris
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I have to say Dave that I find most of your posts to be condescending, rude and to be honest most of the time, full of poor advice. I’m amazed at the respect that you get given around here.
Balazs makes a perfectly good point and this should be a feature of Media Encoder (Adobe, why is it not?). Why would he want to take the extra step of having to take it into an editing application to add audio to his sequence only to have re-render it again so it can be imported into Media Encoder?
As you clearly state in this post https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/979100 you should only ever do your compressed encodes out of encoding package – not an editor. This I agree with completely, but how much time would it add to your workflow to have to import 50+ sequences to Premiere to stick the audio on?
Adding audio to sequences in an encoder might not be part of your workflow, but to others it might be a very useful and time saving feature. So in the future, please try not be so rude and to force others into doing as you do so, but instead to help them to achieve what they want to achieve.
Balazs, when you import your sequence, make sure the ‘Import as Sequence’ tickbox is checked at the bottom. Unfortunately though there is still no option to merge sequences and audio together (that I can find anyway). This is a bit daft as about 99% of videos in the world usually have audio to accompany them so why even bother to have an import sequence option if you can’t add audio? Anyway, hopefully Adobe will implement this very simple feature in a future version. Quicktime has been able to do this for years.
Regards