[Greg Janza]

You should go to the Adobe Hardware forum to get more feedback on best practices but it sure appears that you’ll be best served by using the 512GB NVME SSD as your OS drive, stripe your two 1TB NVME SSD together as Raid 0 and use them as your render/cache drive, stripe your two 2TB HDD as Raid 0 and use for general internal storage and then add a raid to the mix for your media and you’ll have a very efficient system.

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[Greg Janza]

“In what way?”

When you factor in that most raids now are large enough to handle multiple 4k projects, it’s much easier to copy the raw media to a raid and then start working instead of adding in the time consuming extra step of proxy creation. The one caveat being that your system needs to be fast enough to handle 4k full res playback.

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[Greg Janza]

“If EDITORIAL is a significant part of your work – you should add a Mac and FCP X to your toolkit. Because that’s the hardware and software combo that “edits” the fastest right now.“

If you’re a freelancer working with a variety of post production companies or in-house video departments it’s unlikely FCPX would be a viable option.

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[Greg Janza]

“Why not allow tens of thousands of the world’s editors to get to work efficiently on lower Rez proxies”

However, the proxy workflow overall is an inefficient use of an editor’s time.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

John, thanks for the clarification. I didn’t mean to question your professional chops. You obviously know the PC world inside and out and therefore I can’t argue with anything you’ve laid out. I knew going in that the Windows environment was not going to be as elegant as my Mac and that there was going to be a list of annoying aspects of PC existence that I would have to endure.

I think overall you and I are coming at our conclusions from opposite ends. Your many years of PC frustrations are not that dissimilar from my many years of Apple allegiance which became a long slow decline in allegiance due to their lack of component options lack of upgradeability and ever increasing product cost, which to me, can’t be justified.

I hope you continue to love your OSX environment. It certainly is easier to maneuver than Windows and it does work consistently. I also hope that some of what you’ve laid out with long term Windows use is no longer the norm with Windows boxes because so far, Windows has delivered an equally consistent environment in which to work.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

Tony, John’s PC experience is by no means the norm and so it would be foolish to extrapolate that to the overall PC experience. The advancement of cloud computer technology has transformed the industry and allowed people to completely rethink how they work and to me that’s a real positive.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
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[Greg Janza]

“I understand wanting some more performance boost, but that box he bought is butt-ugly and soul destroying. I know as a “professional” that stuff shouldn’t matter, but I’d much rather have my iMac Pro than a beast like that lurking around my desk.”

Does anyone still take the look of the box into account? I don’t care what the computer case looks like since I never look at it or even notice it.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Joe Marler] “What should scare Apple is how easy it is for people like Philip to move to Windows. He spends all his time in Premiere and that UI “surface” dominates the user experience. The underlying OS isn’t that visible to someone editing video 10 hrs a day. They’re smart enough to realize that PC hardware is cheaper, faster and upgradeable while maintaining largely the same experience at the application level.”

You’ve very eloquently stated what’s at the core of a lot of the posts here from folks like myself who have made the switch to a PC. 25 years of being a loyal Apple customer was completely erased the moment I made the decision to switch to a PC. And that decision was a direct result of Apple’s move to a limiting and non-upgradable product line.

And I agree that this fact should be concerning to Apple if in fact they actually want to retain the professional community. But whether Apple actually cares about the niche professional community is another debatable point.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[John Rofrano] “The first part of that video attempts to show that the MacBook Pro 2016 is inferior to the Dell XPS but all it really shows is that Premiere runs better on Windows than a Mac because when you use FCP X it blows Premiere Pro out of the water on the same hardware.”

That video is quite interesting and the results of Premiere between mac and a PC are what I’d expect. The speed difference with FCPX is also quite significant in that scenario. However, the decision on which edit system to use is not solely based on speed test results.

I’m often sent projects that have been initially organized by an assistant editor. I also receive projects that will be recuts of a previously finished video. In addition, I work on projects that will eventually get added to the projects folder at an in-house media department so that down the road they can make changes or do recuts.

Within my client base, the edit system used in these scenarios is always Adobe Premiere. If however, an editor has full autonomy with his or her projects then I would think FCPX would be a viable option.

[John Rofrano] “My experience is that Windows is hugely inferior to macOS in a lot of ways.”

Once you figure out which OS has the best workflow options for your own needs then the differences between the two become non-issues. I spent 25 years on Macs and now I’m on a PC and I miss nothing about OSX so it’s all relative.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

In this video they tested open CL vs CUDA and the results are interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cQK8jFPzo

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
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