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Cheers!
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Here’s an update that should prove I wasn’t expecting more than a Z800 can do. I just heard back from the seller. He said his techs confirmed that when they started up the box I sent back to them, it was very slow. But after searching for and installing new updates it works fine now.
Now, he didn’t mention the graphics oddities I was getting from Premiere Pro and Photoshop, but he did admit it was slooooooow. But I had installed all of the updates myself, in fact, it took over 40 minutes and THREE reboots to download and install them all. There couldn’t be any more updates unless Microsoft released them between the time I shipped it back to them and they checked it.
Anyway, that’s the latest on the situation. I wanted to re-order but I don’t know if I should. No one else is offering what they are for the price they charged ($685.00) but at the same time I can’t trust them to send me back the same machine, 100% satisfaction rating or not.
Plus, for Joe and the rest of you who own Z800’s, did you need to install the updates before it ran faster than a Windows 95 based Compaq from the 90’s? I can understand the updates making it run even faster and all, but not so clunky that it absolutely needed the updates.
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Yes, you go to Edit>Preferences>General and under Timeline Playback Autoscrolling choose “Smooth Scrolling”.
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Here’s another trick I did myself once. Lay out the entire clip on one track. Razor cut it where the lighting shifts, put either the light or dark video up one track, put an adjustment layer above that to make your corrections to all of the clips at once, and correct it until it matches the clip below.
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Yeah, my experience was astonishing for the wrong reasons. Anyway, I think this, the 100th post in this thread, should be the last. Hopefully in the near future I’ll find a better deal on a better box.
Thanks for everything Joe. You guys too, Dave and Chris.
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Well, he also said that he had a lot of damage in his warehouse from a hail storm the other day so maybe he’s kind of lining up his excuses. I sense that he’s aware some of his merchandise, including mine, was damaged. But yeah, it is a pain. This thing is so heavy it was a major project just getting it in the packing and back in the box. I was like a one man “I Love Lucy” episode 😉
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Ironically, my consumer PC is behaving like a champ now, or seems to be. Perceptions, you know? That should give you an idea how poorly the Z800 was performing that it’s making this PC appear to be really fast.
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I don’t think I would have understood it anyway, but too late, I’ve already disassembled everything and packed it for shipping. At least I’m getting a full refund. Normally they require that buyer pays return shipping.
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thanks for sticking with me, Joe. Believe me, as much as I don’t want to send this back, I tried all of that already. Didn’t fix the problem and it wouldn’t be the cause of it taking 30 seconds or more to empty 400meg from the Recycle Bin. No, this thing is just slow and something is wrong with it. I can’t imagine you getting your Z800 and getting my performance and thinking “WOW, this is blazing fast!!!” so no way is my experience anything close to yours.
Just sending it back. It’ll be a while before I get excited about doing this again.
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Well, Joe, all I know is I didn’t have to do anything to my previous consumer level computers to get them not to act all wonky and weird. You saw the picture I attached, didn’t you? That’s just one thing. Why on earth should I have to tweak anything just to get that from not happening. And again, when I opened that screen capture in photoshop and clicked “Save For Web”, when that dialog box opened, I slid the slider from 50% to 100% and the dialog box disappeared, except for that slider. I mean, come on, do I really need to “install important updates ” for that to not happen (not yelling at you, btw. I know sometimes I sound that way).
And that’s aside from Premiere Pro taking a minute and 11 seconds to open and load a project this morning, compared to my baby PC taking 8 seconds. Oh yeah, also, every time I open AE or PPro it tells me my screen resolution is too low, even though it’s higher than the resolution it’s recommending! One time it told me my resolution should be like 2148×1440 or something ridiculous like that. Why?
Believe me, with my bursitis and all I’m not looking forward to lugging this thing to the local Fedex or UPS or wherever they tell me to bring it. I was so looking forward to working with this, as you of all people know, and right now I don’t even want to look at my camera, let alone shoot footage to work on.