[Melvin Chong]

Audio Technica ATH M50. Cheap and good.

https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-Professional-Headphones-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B016YJDV74/ref=pd_sbs_267_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B016YJDV74&pd_rd_r=6265eded-8d99-11e8-bb99-0baf3359ef3b&pd_rd_w=kp8Lg&pd_rd_wg=HwUAv&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=8702255303818932494&pf_rd_r=32HNAHXHSB5TSC75Q22E&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=32HNAHXHSB5TSC75Q22E

[Melvin Chong]

No, I don’t have lots of money to spend but I know enough where to put my priorities on my hardware purchase. I buy my hardware mostly secondhand and I DIY my own workstations, even my 64Gb ram is 2nd-hand.

You chose to take a chance with a new, untested CPU and that is why you are upset with speed issues. Apps will likely to be updated to take advantage of Ryzen with its new architecture. Meanwhile you will just have to deal with teething problems of your AMD CPU.

Every system has its bottlenecks somewhere and it is just a matter of minimizing them by over-spec’ing your machine wherever possible. Fixing one bottle will eventually create another one elsewhere. System-optimization is a tedious balancing-act. The time you spent on trouble-shooting the bottlenecks could be better spent on honing your craft instead.

I configure, commission, train and support high-performance systems for broadcast for a living and my speciality is in network-rendering for 2D and 3D applications, so I know what I’m talking about.

My advice to you again is not to skim on ram if you intend to work professionally 2D/3D professionally. 16Gb is the barest minimum for a modern hungry OS like Windows. The more memory headroom you have, the less problems you’ll face down the road.

[Melvin Chong]

Your ram usage is almost reaching its limit and you are probably experiencing disk-paging, hence the slowdown.

Adobe apps are generally hungry ram-eaters, especially After Effects. Even 64Gb will be eaten up in no time with layers, heavy effects, precomps and what not. I have two SSDs in Raid-0 as AE cache in case my 64gb ram threshold is reached.

Seeing that you are also doing 3D with GPU rendering, you should know that you cannot skim on ram. If you cannot justify spending money on more ram, you should seriously rethink your career. Sounds harsh but then you don’t seem convinced from the advice given by everyone here.

[Melvin Chong]

I prefer editing with Cineform. M-Jpeg is too archaic, quality cannot be adjusted and no alpha-channel support.

[Melvin Chong]

Hi Ole,

I downloaded the Neo trial and it sees my BMD Intensity Pro card but there is no video preview. If I remembered correctly, previous versions of Premiere allowed the user to chose whatever capture codec but now it seems impossible.

What’s the point of bragging about having native Cineform support if it can’t even capture with it ?

[Melvin Chong]

Before GoPro acquire it, there were various flavors of cineform capture software that you can record to directly. You can find them below :

https://cineform.com/legacy-downloads

Sony Vegas allowed capture to cineform directly before Magix acquire it.

[Melvin Chong]

Thanks for replying. Sorry a big typo there on the title. I meant how to capture in Premiere Pro using Cineform codec.

I had installed Quik that comes with GoPro Studio and copied the necessary Cineform plugins to PPro plugins directory but it still doesn’t show up in the capture settings.

My intention is to capture directly from camera to PPro, bypassing the camera’s 4:2:0 awful codec.

[Melvin Chong]

Thanks for the reply Kelly.

Which decklink card are you using btw ?

[Melvin Chong]

Thanks Rafael.

MPEG Streamclip saves the day. 🙂

[Melvin Chong]

I am using Compressor droplet with ProRes 422 codec selected .

Few hundred clips went thru with no problems except for a few.

Confirmed nothing wrong with these few as they played fine on FCP XDcam HD timeline.