Olly Lawer
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Thank you Walter – very helpful as always!
Can you advise on the spec we had listed. Happy to pay the price for a fast machine. We had budgeted up to £7k as we were thinking Mac Pro top end, but custom built PC seems a cheaper option at £4k.
Apparently the graphics card doesn’t matter so much as it’s more about cores and RAM?
Olly Lawer
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Thank you. What do you think of the PC spec in the post?
Olly Lawer
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Interesting.
We’re having issues as even when we are archiving the projects, the actual project file remains the same size…no way of deleting transcoded media or render files anymore. Unless you know something we don’t.
Also, with multi-cam. If we delete the transcoded media, won’t that affect the multi-cam when we reload the project?
Olly Lawer
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Thanks for the info.
I know it’s hard as it depends on the workflow, but I’d love to see your tests.
If 12 cores was twice as fast rendering as 6 cores, I’d invest, but our tests showed only nominal increments in performance. Maybe 20-25% quicker with 12 as opposed to 6 cores.
Olly Lawer
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Totally with you on the RAM. Way expensive from Apple, but I haven’t seen it available anywhere yet.
Unfortunately £10k for a new machine is really pushing it.
We have two top iMacs and two MacBook Pros. Really need another machine. iMac even with 32GB RAM just don’t cut it. Hence Mac Pro consideration.
Thing is, we could buy two decent 6 core Mac Pros for the price of one 12 core and that’s more valuable to us as a company than one beast.
Of course, there is always PC…a serious consideration!
Olly Lawer
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Oh I agree. More cores = more computing power. But that’s not the evaluation. At the moment, a 6 core machine is much better value for money. By the time AE takes full advantage of multiple cores, there’ll be a new Mac Pro! 🙂
Olly Lawer
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Thanks for your advice. So taking on my last post, which processor to I get? The i7 or the Xeon?
Olly Lawer
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Hmm. Contacted some companies. Got this response from one so maybe I misunderstood your reply James.
“We can build whatever you need however you can not have a i7 4630k and a zeon in the same machine as they are 2 different process altogether please call me on 01914978341 option 1 to discuss options thanks”
Olly Lawer
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Cool. Thank you. What about the issue or large file transfers between mac and PC?
Olly Lawer
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Thanks. I’ll try and be a bit more specific.
Compressor settings running through FCPX:
1080p
Various frame rates, same result – 25, 29.97, 30. 60
Just under ‘high’ quality
Key Frames: Automatic
Encoding: Best Quality
Fast Start
Not touched frame controls or Resizing Controls from compressor default
Video Encoder
Width and Height: Up to 1920 x 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: Default
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 70
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25
Fast Start: onI guess it’s just that YouTube is dropping the playback quality down to probably 240 and not playing at full 1080. However, other footage which is streaming at 240 on YouTube looks a hell of a lot better than with the Go Pro.
Basically you get blocks of pixels (if that makes sense), so you can hardly make out what is going on.
Olly Lawer