[Joshua Klinkenberger]

Excellent! Thanks so much Dave.

I’ll see if I can get a small dedicated server with some fast drives. I know HD footage requires lots of space, but most things I work on are 30-60 seconds long. What kind of RAID would I want it configured in? As for the footage; I mainly use (in Premiere) exports from 3D programs and Dynamic links from After Effects. I don’t often use video footage in After Effects, but when I do, what would you say is a good codec to work/edit with? (1080p)

Speaking of what codec to work with, I’m actually having trouble with finding a good 1080p codec to use with Premiere. I’ve tried NUMOUROS combinations of codec with different sequence settings and I’ve found that only the H.264, H.265, and MPEG 2 compressions seem to work well in Premier under most sequence setting modes. I would have thought uncompressed AVI’s would be best.

Here’s the results from a test I did, the circles mean the footage imported and had no yellow or red lines and played back smoothly. The test was with 720p footage and settings.
https://www.appearim.com/Downloads/Chart.JPG

Ok So Don’t use Open GL. Got it!

Do you know much about the video-card thing? I’m under the impression that the Quadro cards are for effects rendering, 3D work, and that sort of thing; computing power. The Matrox card I would assume is made more for high transfer of video data to allow HD footage to be worked with easily and quickly. Does this sound right? Do most computers have one or the other? Since most computers are more specific to their tasks (ie. AE graphics machine, Editing Workstions (premiere/Avid/FCP), Render Farms, etc.)

Also – I just got Elemental Accelerator to play around with. Are there lots of plug-ins like this build for rendering?

Thanks again Dave. Good Information, I appreciate the help a lot!

Joshua