Merlin Vandenbossche
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Happy to be of help! ☺ Enjoy the new gear!
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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: 10th gen intel, wifi-6, a thunderbolt 3 connection. All good news.
Found a couple of video reviews online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9htOmm8bh6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkvzHjuZAb8Saw no real catches in those except for fan noise when under load and the screen flex. At this price it is no surprise you trade in some design for performance. The flex can be anoying, but its up to you to decide its importance. It has very reasonable thermals and heat generation. It seems to have decent cooling built in with fairly heavy fans, hence the noise. Battery life comes in at about 5 hours, but better to think of only half of that when editing though. That’s not great, but a typical byproduct of using mobile devices.
Concerning battery BTW: it is very often the case on windows laptops that performance decreases when uncoupled from the plug. If you need your device to perform at maximum (when exporting/rendering for example), always plug in the wall socket if possible.
To cut my story short: this is a good deal and I hope you can still order one. Supplies will not last on this one.
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That surface laptop seems terrible value for that kind of money, at least performance wise. My suggestions:
– Get at least 16 GB of RAM, you will need it.
– Any type of dedicated GPU will boost you well, always prefer NVIDIA GPUs for work in Premiere Pro, they are much faster than AMDs. Just make sure to use the latest “studio” drivers and youll be fine.
– Ryzen CPUs work, but I recommend Intel since it gives you a tech called quicksync, which will allow you to boost playback performance of H264 or HEVC. Thats all footage coming from DSLR, GOPRO, Drones, your phone… so you will likely encounter this type of media. Under the preferences menus in Premiere Pro you can switch on hardware accelerated decoding, which will turn on this feature.Some devices on best buy that tick all of the above boxes:
The RTX 2060 here is something youll love, 6 core i7 is a good deal at this price too.
A little older and therefore less good (9th gen cpu, no rtx card), but very usable still.
A little fancier and less “gamer” like.
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There are tons of options available I saw, even under 1000$ (tho often available as pickup-only from stores), just use the filter for 16 gb ram, core i7, nvidia gpu. Any gpu like rtx 2060, mx250, gtx 1660 will be nice. Dont be afraid of “gamer” labels, they often represent much better values than their “business” counterparts. Check for reviews online though for any hidden catches like battery life, screen resolution, clunky keyboards of trackpads. Only reviews will give u some insight in those.
Happy hunting!
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I understand when people “advice” others to disable the Mercury GPU acceleration as it sometimes helps alleviate problems that start at the GPU level, but it is generally bad practice to do so. In the majority of scenarios your GPU wont cause issues. I only do so when something weird pops up: when the program monitor shows weird green flashing, when I get errors trying to export or render a weird combination of effects. This will not happen often, especially on MacOS, where you do not control GPU drivers yourself. For people on windows workstations correctly updating GPU drivers usually makes those problems disappear as well.
So always keep the GPU acceleration going as a standard operation. I see no reasons not to. It will help a lot with playback, especially once you start adding any type of gpu acclerated effects. And it will boost export speeds. If issues with exports or playback occur, think of disabling it as a possible workaround. But it will not cause more crashes as someone wanted you to believe.
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Maybe “track height” ?
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An update of your gpu will help with better real time playback of clips carrying lumetri effects, it will help with playback of R3D (hopefully much more soon if adobe also integrates the new SDK for Red as Resolve already has) and it can accelerate the neatvideo render a little. In general your export speeds will increase a little as well.
It will not help with decode of the xavc or other gop based codecs (h264) nor with the speed of analyzing footage for stabilization. Those are cpu bound tasks.
You can check the gpu section of pugets premiere pro site here: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-143/Hardware-Recommendations
While the 1060 is no longer on there, it likely compares to a little under the 1660ti. While upgrading to a 2080ti is better, even a 2070 super will make for a solid increase already. Biggest differences will be export speed (and render speeds of newtvideo) and real time playback of the red files (u can do higher resolutions with the 2080ti). My guess is the effect on the responsiveness of the lumetri panel is likely very comparable.
2080 ti is the card I would buy if I were building a system today and if budget allows it. I think it is the best “value for money” card since it easily competes with cards of 3000$ or more (like titan rtx or quadro).
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Blackmagic just dropped an update that seems to include a fix for this. I no longer have a testlab with CC 2020. So can anyone confirm the new desktop video app makes any changes?
https://www.cinema5d.com/blackmagic-design-updates-its-desktop-video-software-to-version-11-5/
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We are using a mixture of ProRes 422 from an Arri Amira and lots of H.264 from GoPro or DJI. I did not narrow it down to when or on which footage the glitches occurred. But your thesis is definitely possible since we are both using stuff from an Arri ProRes recorder.
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Have you also tried resetting preferences and plugins? Even after a reinstall those might persist, so I would add that to your list of standard troubleshooting. Just hold Alt + Shift while starting the app.
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I had the exact same issue on a test lab machine about two months ago. Running PPRO 2020 14.0 on MacOS, with a standard mini monitor device (so HD output). Tried both the latest as well as a previous driver for the Desktop Video install from BMD, both gave the same results. Also no troubles using Resolve.
It was the main reason for me to not upgrade to CC 2020 for the coming half year or so. Glad I did not update the rest of our facility. We really can not do without proper output monitoring.
I’m sorry to say this, but I think it is a bug or mismatch between the BMD drivers and the 2020 version of Premiere.