Duke Sweden
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There were times when I would just explode if the Yanks lost to the Red Sox. It’s only been the last 2 years that I finally let it go. If my kid didn’t love the Yankees so much I probably wouldn’t even watch baseball anymore. Nah, I probably still would.
Yeah, husbands are SUPPOSED to go first. All I’ve got left is my twin brother and my son, who’s mentally handicapped. We’ll leave it at that.
Man I can’t wait to rip through some renders! Do you consider h.264 a “delivery codec”? That’s what I usually use but my videos end up on youtube. If I want to watch them on my main tv I can put them on a flash drive and plug it into my blu ray player. Which reminds me. For doing that, what would be the best codec to render to? Now that I’ve got the power there’s no sense in using the most efficient when I can go with best quality.
Oh yeah, thanks for the bear stories. Nightmares here I come 😉
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Boston!!?!?! Didn’t I just tell you I’m from the Bronx!!! 😉
Man, that’s a sweet setup, (except for the bears. I have a phobia about bears). I moved here to get away from the overbuilding of S. Florida, but now it’s getting worse here. No open acre is safe. I hate it. My wife and I moved here with our son 10 years ago. She passed away a year and a half ago and I’d love to leave the bad memories behind but I’m stuck. This hobby takes my mind off of it. Now back to the Z800…
Well, I still have my copies of CC 2014. So until they update the software, CC2014 is faster than ’15? How about After Effects, do you work with After Effects? Is it as brisk as PPro on the Z800?
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btw, Chris Wright says CC 2015 doesn’t do multicore processing. Should I go back to CC2014? If Adobe works with HP and NVidia why would they take their software a step back?
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Oh man, you live in NH? I wanna come live with you!!! 😉 I’m from the Bronx originally but the best years of my life were spent in Upstate NY (notice how I respectfully capitalize the “U”). I love the north east. I’m in N.C. now. It’s ok, but it’s still N.C., you know?
Anyway, I have plenty of open space around my desk, I always give my electronics room to breathe and keep them dusted. My son’s XBox and PS4 look like they just came out of the box and they’re 2 years old. So no worries about overheating or dust. I keep my gear in top shape. It will be a month or so before I decide if I should add stuff, I’ve got a Seagate SATA 2TB HDD in my ebay shopping cart just waiting for me to pull the trigger.
I was going to move the baby PC downstairs but I realize now that I need it here, next to a phone line. I run an app that blocks unwanted calls, and I get a LOT of them, so I need that to be running. So I will keep that to the left of my monitors and speakers, and place the Z800 to the right. All very symmetrical and proper 😉
Needless to say I will keep this thread bookmarked. Lots of great links. Maybe they should make this a sticky 😉
I’m going to watch that video again on how to set up the Adobe software on the Z800. I believe that was the first link you gave me. Oh, btw, a local video edit house has an opening for a part time video editor so I applied. It’s more of a field trip to see if I can learn stuff, I doubt I’ll get the job, but if I do kudos to me!
Thanks again, Joe. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from me again before it comes. Cheers!
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Thanks, Joe. I do in fact have a DVI to HDMI adapter already, so I’m good to go. I’m moving my baby PC off the desk later and getting set up so that I only have to plug the Z800 in and attach the monitor, speakers and keyboard/mouse.
The more I read about this monster the more excited I get. I have one project that I already completed, it took 9 hours to render for 4 minutes of video, and the effects and such are sloppy because I can’t see what they look like until after I render. I’m going to open that on the z800 and see what it can do. Then I’m gonna go out and shoot some video!
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Hey Joe. Yeah, I don’t ask questions and just sit back waiting for answers so I did some research while waiting and did find basically the information you gave me about ECC and unbuffered RAM and all that, so I’m good there. I’ve also been looking up Z800 demo’s and youtube videos and it appears this thing out of the box will be far more powerful than my needs so I don’t think I’ll be adding anything for a few months.
I do have one last “important” question which popped into my head when I woke up this morning. Currently my baby PC is hooked up to a 720p HDTV. I know that it’s maximum resolution of 1360 x 768 is not compatible with Adobe’s apps. I can get away with it on Premiere Pro, but on Speedgrade, the source window is so small it’s useless and it won’t let me enlarge that portion of the interface. When I had a problem with Premiere Pro and thought the only way to fix it was to re-install, I saw a small error message also stating the PPro needed a certain resolution to work properly. Will the far more powerful graphics card of the Z800 give me problems? Worst case scenario, I have a 1080p HDTV in my bedroom that I can swap out with the 720p. Do you think that will be necessary?
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btw, your link came up “File Not Found”.
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Thanks, Joe! That was my original question but it was never addressed, about networking the two computers. Now I’m not going to question your advice on the RAM, but the specs on the Z800 say DDR-3 and the RAM in my baby PC is also DDR-3. Are you saying there are two types of DDR-3 RAM?
As for the other stuff I’m kind of confused. Are you saying to run the OS on one drive, the Adobe apps on another? Plus render my work onto a third drive?
Finally, I appreciate the encouragement, but at 62 I probably am a doofus. 😉
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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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7 it is!
3 more days until my new toy comes!
I must sound like a real doofus to you pros.