[Matthew Jeschke]

I have everything setup and am playing with an old project I put together. The timeline has 1080p H.264 clips in it. These clips are on SSD Hard Drive. I have a track which has the following Sony effects applied:

– Color Corrector
– Color Curves
– Soft Contrast

When I do a render to Sony .MP4 file it renders faster than I could actually play the clip! Super awesome.

However, when I do timeline playback at Preview Best Full… This timeline skips.

I am concerned as the biggest reason for me to do the build was for timeline performance. I want to be able to playback the project and preview it without having to do tons of renders (even RAM previews) to see the result.

I’m looking at your spreadsheet… thanks a million for sharing it ☺ Curious would the Fury X be a much better card. In most of the columns it looks better… If so what about the Fury 2X?

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

Hey Aaron,

Thanks again ☺And shucks shucks shucks ☹ I finalized my build. I was EXTREMELY confused on the graphics chip-set / GPU from Radeon. I knew I wanted a Radeon but NONE of their model numbers make any since. I bought the newest setup and assumed it would be the best… I bought a RX 480 8GB.

I opened vegas on the new machine. I added a few effects to a on 4K h.264 video from my S6 phone. Specifically I stabilized using ProDad. It did analysis somewhat quickly… Then playedback without a hitch at full quality. I then tacked a HitFilm noise reduction effect and tried to playback at full quality. I could see the timeline preview stressing. It was dropping frames at that point. The setup has a feeling that it’s not silky smooth and super muscular so to speak. I had thought was because of processor only having 6 cores (i7-5930k). It must be due to GPU?

I was extremely confused as to why the older architectures cost a tad more like the 290x. I looked at a lot of OpenGL bench tests… Then chose the tried to pick out the unit with most # of compute units, stream processors, and graphics card memory on a single GPU (36 / 2304 / 8gb respectively).

Here’s my final spec list:
– Radeon RX480 8GB by MSI (this should have been a 290x, 389x, or Furry-x?)
-Intel I7-5930k 6 core 3.5Ghrz (would have liked a few more cores but compromised for price).
– X99 MB – ASRock X99M Killer 3.1 (fyi- don’t buy ASRock memory is limited & hard to setup).
– 64GB DDR4 – 4x 16GB DDR42133 / PC4-17000 CL 15-15-15-36 G.Skill Memory
– 512GB – Samsung 950 VNAND PCIE M.2 SSD
– Windows 10 Pro
– Liquid CPU cooler – Deep Cool Captain 240 EX
– Case – Corsair Carbide Air Series 240 Case
– 1TB SSD capture scratch – Samsung 850

If I had it to do over again I would have bought a MB with integrated graphics for displays. Then installed the GPU for editing system (computation / rendering / timeline playback / etc)

FYI ~ If you have further critique… I may sell off or return some of the components and buy others ☺

I had a VERY hard time specing this system out. The important features are not very well marketed. They sell on gymics lol Thanks a MILLION for your help you were a lifesaver.

Link to video breakdown of my build 🙂

PS. A few people wanted to see how and why I built the system the way I did. I tried my best to explain, probably I have mis-represented some Items in the video. If so please do not be shy let me know my blunder. I will redo the video. It was INSANELY hard to spec out the system and TONS of misinformation on the internet.

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

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[Matthew Jeschke]

I am quite confused on the model numbers for Radeon. A while back you mentioned the R9 290 was a good card for vegas. Is it still king of the hill?

I do not use adobe for video… and rising SVP 14, some burris plug-ins, and just purchased Hit Film a few days ago. I dabble in DaVinci resolve as well.

Want something that can handle me throwing 4k raw at it… or at least a 1080p raw workflow without proxies.

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

My head is spinning with all this graphics card talk… i understand NVIDA maybe as good as Radeon now for OpenCL which is the platform SVP uses. I too am shopping for a graphics card… still leaves me confused as to the plarithra of Radeon cards available for purchase. How does one determine which card is the best (or right) card to play with Vegas?

I am looking at number of simultaneous streams

Onboand memory.

Clock speed.

What else should one consider? Fyi I am not even able to tell which is the latest generation GPU. seems they have 200’s 400’s… then the 7000’s 8000’s firepro etc… what ishould best for video editing lol

Any pointers are appreciated. Thx 🙂

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

Nevermind, I anwered my own question. I’m having computer problems will not let me view your old posts. You put the full model number in there, i7-5830K

Thanks!

PS. I cannot figure out how to edit or take down an old reply. Did they remove that feature form the form?

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

All their model numbers, and suffixes, prefixes, and worthless spec sheets get confusing lol

Would this be the processor? I’m going to try and exchange mine.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117403

They put a K at the end of the model number ?

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

I have thought of using the standalone version then editing those on the timeline. Maybe by the time my new editing machine is built they will have the issues fixed ☺

Glad it’s not me though as Mercalli said, “Read the manual” when I contacted tech support. Made me think I didn’t know what I was doing ☺

Thanks!

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

Uh oh… Never mind, I just realized the processor you mentioned is $1000? ☹ If that’s really the case, I may have to wait 6 months until they are obsolete and then buy one ☺

My first editing machine was an old number crunching box from work. They were throwing it away. I was amazed at how well it worked for what it was. The processors were antiquated when I got it. I believe they were older AMD operteron processors. I had two processors with dual cores each. It worked extremely well for what it was. Unfortunately, it got taken out in a lightening storm ☹ When I built a newer system based on AMD FX processor setup it wasn’t much if any faster than the old antiquated setup I had.

Thanks again for your awesome help!

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

#3… I have not opened the CPU yet. Am considering exchanging it for the one you mentioned. I’m curious will this cause issue with the PCIe NVMe drive I got? From what I hear you saying it sounds like the processor may divide up bandwidth between the graphics card and any other PCIe devices including the NVMe drive.

… I’m thinking this old Radeon 5450 I have laying in my scrap pile would run a 4k monitor but not confident.

FYI ~ You’re awesome, and yes marketing SUCKS. They only tell you the wiz bang stuff that makes no difference, not what you really need to know. Years ago I designed processors in Graduate School. There’s so much information that never makes it to the marketing materials.

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Matthew Jeschke]

This is great information. Thanks for sharing.

1. Can you elaborate on “compute units”.

2. Also how does Radeon cross-fire work… I always thought it ended up functioning as if there was one graphics card in the system.

3. I actually have several older GPU units laying around I could easily use one of them for the display. How do I optimize PCIe bandwidth? Such that the rendering card get’s the better slot?

Thanks!

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂