[Gerry Cast]

Thanks Bob. You comment does help. Always good to hear what others are experiencing. I think I may bite the bullet and upgrade, especially with support for Windows 10 ending soon and having to go to Win 11.

[Gerry Cast]

Hi. Thank you so much. I appreciate your help.

What you suggested sounds like it “probably” would have done the trick. I’m on the road for a while, and before I left, I decided to just upgrade and future proof things, so I’ll be ok.
When I do get home, would be interesting to experiment. If I can find the time to do that, I will certainly let you know, although life has me running on a fast treadmill lately, ha, ha.

Wishing you a great 2025! Thanks again.

[Gerry Cast]

Hi Eric,
Thanks. I appreciate the info. Sounds like I’m a bit future proofed!

[Gerry Cast]

Tom, again, thank you. I think you’re right about using the an m.2 drive for the cache instead of that ssd. That’s helpful! Have a good week.

[Gerry Cast]

Thank you, will check it out now.

[Gerry Cast]

Thanks so much Tom. Very useful info. I wanted to make the final decision on how many, and what types of drives to use in this new build.
I like to keep all my archived stuff available and “in the box,” so that I can access it right away without digging through external drives.
Of course I always have backups on external drives in two other separate locations. And I do edit a lot of audio too.

My idea for all the internal hard drives are below. My system will support 5 m.2’s and 6 SSD’s.

1 Terabyte m.2 Boot Drive

4 Terabyte m.2 Video Editing Drive

4 Terabyte m.2 Video Editing Drive Backup 1
4 Terabyte m.2 Video Editing Drive Backup 2

2 Terabyte m.2 Audio Editing Drive
2 Terabyte SSD Audio Editing Drive BU

4 Terabyte SSD Frequently Used Resources Drive (*can double as a Cache Drive?)

4 Terabyte SSD Archive 1 Drive
4 Terabyte SSD Archive 2 Drive
4 Terabyte SSD Archive 3 Drive (my current system’s Archive 3 is only 10% full now)
4 Terabyte SSD Archive 4 Drive (will be empty, so will store incremental system Images here)

*Wondering if the Cache directory should be on an m.2 drive instead of a SSD drive so there’s no slowdown. I could probably if it on one of the other m.2 drives if I’m advised to.

Also, on this new system, M.2_1 shares bandwidth with PCIEX16(G5)_2. When M.2_1 is enabled, PCIEX16(G5)_2 will be disabled and PCIEX16(G5)_1 will run x8 only. So I’m wondering if and why I should be concerned about this for best performance of everything involved.

I’m hoping for any feedback as I’m curious to know if this sounds like the super system that I hope it will be.

[Gerry Cast]

Thank you Tero!

Thanks about the Spyder, yes, I’ve heard the Xrite is better too. Looks like it $125.00 more than the Spyder I purchased already, but I’ll consider it anyway.

OK, got it, so the Instensity Pro is bypassing whatever the GPU and OS is trying to do to the colors. Don’t know, as you said, if PPro has ICC support, but will try to find out.

Regardless of the above questions and answers, the one weird thing in PPro 2019 ver 13.0 is that I’m using Blending Modes on a projects to darken areas of a theater that has a small audience in it, but that has empty seats. I’ve successfully darkened those empty areas. I export to H.264 High Quality 2 Pass and the resulting video looks fine. But, when I export of of Encore to make a Blu Ray or a DVD, the Blending Mode darkened areas play back brighter, as if there are no Blending Modes any more. I’ve tried different burning software, different hardware burners, different DVD/Blu Ray playback devices and different TV’s, all with the same result. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Gerry Cast]

Thanks. I bought a good Sony Reference monitor (not a TV), to use with my Intensity Pro (external) for playback of my Adobe Premier Pro video editing sessions.

My Spyder 5 will only calibrate monitors hooked directly to the computers video card, so how do I calibrate with my Sony hooked to the Intensity Pro? People are telling me it can’t be done (unless maybe it I get a LUT device from Aja).

Any help would be appreciated because I feel the expensive reference monitor is going to waste using it like this. My color calibrated Ben Q computer monitors are showing my deep rich colors, and the Sony Reference monitor looks a lot less saturated.

I used to use a plain old flat screen HDMI input TV as that would reflect what most people would use when playing my Blu Ray or DVD discs, so that seems to make more sense now that using this monitor (which I can return for the next 6 days).

Or, can I just get rid of the Intensity Pro external unit, plug the Sony monitor into my computer’s 980Ti card, calibrate using the Spyder 5 and then move my Premier Pro Program monitor to the Sony Reference monitor, and like you said, do the best I can grading on that?

Everything looks good on my computer monitors, but Blu Ray and DVD disks all are “lighter” looking and the Overly Blending Mode I used to “darken” a bright audience in a theater don’t seem to be translating to discs, but again, all look good on a computer, so the outputted H.264 file is ok, I guess. Frustrating.

I’m starting to suspect Adobe Encore is doing some Gamma (is that brightness and darkness?) shifting when outputting to disk.

Thanks.

[Gerry Cast]

Hi Jake,
Did you ever find out how to fix this? Here it is 2019 and my PPro exported H.264 files look fine with my Blending Mode and color correction, but after I burn a Blu Ray or a DVD in Encore, all color and Blend Modes (which helped darken a theater that was too bright on the audience), were gone. Please let me know. Thanks.

[Gerry Cast]

Thanks so much Paul and Greg. I’m going to try that!