Hey,

If you are looking to upgrade your current laptop, I honestly would only recommend that 2019 macbook pro you mentioned. It’s the only machine in this list which will sufficiently up your CPU, RAM and GPU compared to what you have right now. You get better CPU, twice the memory and a better GPU. So it has the best chances at improving your e…

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Transcoding will likely be your best option. And do so in an I-Frame only codec (ProRes, DNxHD, Cineform). Only that way you will have frame accurate scrubbing. H.265/HEVC is a tough and heavily compressed format which will pose plenty of challenge for most systems. It is GOP-based, meaning it doesn’t store all frames at full size and constantly…

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I have found Resolve to be fairly hardware intensive. Once you reach a certain threshold it’s often faster than competitors like Adobe’s software. But below it, it is struggling harder than what the competitors do. I remember a review/benchmark by Max Yuryev of the (old) low-end macbook pro’s for example and it would surprisingly hold up well for…

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There is no general setup of RAW settings anywhere in Premiere Pro. The only route you can take is to change the Red Source Settings for one clip and save that setting as a preset (R-Click on ‘Red Source Settings’ – Save Preset). Then apply that preset from the presets menu in the Effects tab to the other RED clips (drag and drop the preset on the…

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Your options are by and large still the same: add a Lumetri Color on top using an adjustment layer or on a clip to clip basis. This gives you the most flexibility.

You could alternatively also create the look you want on an example clip in the timeline using Lumetri, save that as preset (R-Click on the Lumetri effect in Effect Controls), then apply…

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Premiere Pro generally uses GPU’s for a (limited) number of things:

– Real-time playback of GPU accelerated effects (all effects with the play arrow symbol)

– Acceleration of Lumetri Color adjustments (which is a GPU accelerated effect)

– Acceleration of resizes (motion tab)

– Debayering R3D source footage / better playback for RAW video formats

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Choosing/building a new system can be a pretty daunting task. So much depends on your needs and even more on your budget. In the best case scenario you future proof yourself as best you can. So that means you might wish to buy into new tech as much as you can. That could mean a number of things today:

– You might want the latest gen of CPU chips…

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You have probably already done this, but a good place to start is to dump the cache files manually (delete the cache folders from the user/library/application support/adobe/common) and reset preferences (hold alt + shift when starting the app) to get a “clean start”. Are you having issues after directly linking/importing the proxies instead of lin…

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I was immediately thinking of cinedeck (https://cinedeck.com/cinedeck-ingest/), which can insert edit into files based exports without re-exporting. Maybe it can also add metadata? I am also thinking of kyno right now, which can also add metadata to files. Not sure though if it can only do that in its own library or as a sidecar.

But tbh, maybe… Read more

Happy to be of help! ☺ Enjoy the new gear!

As far as I’m concerned this machine looks like great value at that price. It will work well as a mid tier laptop for video editing. Did a quick search about the model: it is apparently fairly new, HP refreshed the line up this year, redesigned the looks (so it looks less gamer-y now) and updated the specs, so that’s good. It has the latest tech:… Read more