4k editing GPU, whats peoples choice?

[orph]

not hard to check do an export and find out. (good habit to watch activity monitor as you work)

@marcjwebb if you are new to video editing it's worth doing some reading up on different topics starting with the help file in PP and on adobes site, also adobe has some good forums for in depth help.

there's speed gains from setting PP prefs correct depending on your workflow

disc speed/cpu tend to be the biggest problem (or to little ram) GPU tends to be more dependent on workflow/codec/tasks

different codecs even can utilize more or less cpu cores as well as more or less the GPU.

so simpley with difrent taks and workflows with different codecs different things become bottle necks at different times and with little info it's hard for me to gess

also your files are not big powermike's raw files now thats big

if you can give info or details ill do a last post trying to help, there's options if not id recommend going to adobes official PP forums give them details and maybe they can help.

@PowerMike G5 nice

 

[pierrox]

Yes. I'm getting around 850MBs read/writes using 4 x 6TB WD Blacks. It's a good internal way to bypass the 550MBs limit of the internal SATA ports in RAID since the PCIE card itself still has external USB3/ESATA as well, so I can keep it all on one card.

It's a great card, have the same. But didn't think about cross Raiding with it. Thanks!

 

[PowerMike G5]

not hard to check do an export and find out. (good habit to watch activity monitor as you work)

@marcjwebb if you are new to video editing it's worth doing some reading up on different topics starting with the help file in PP and on adobes site, also adobe has some good forums for in depth help.

there's speed gains from setting PP prefs correct depending on your workflow

disc speed/cpu tend to be the biggest problem (or to little ram) GPU tends to be more dependent on workflow/codec/tasks

different codecs even can utilize more or less cpu cores as well as more or less the GPU.

so simpley with difrent taks and workflows with different codecs different things become bottle necks at different times and with little info it's hard for me to gess

also your files are not big powermike's raw files now thats big

if you can give info or details ill do a last post trying to help, there's options if not id recommend going to adobes official PP forums give them details and maybe they can help.

@PowerMike G5 nice

Yup, storage is forever a pain in the butt for me. I feel like I'm buying hard drives every week lol.

But its the nature of the work I suppose.

Orph is right... a lot of people tend to focus on one aspect of a machine for video editing, when in fact, a well-balanced system will serve you a lot faster than having one component high-end. Setting up PP preferences go a long wayI i.e. media cache on a separate drive, renders on another, etc.
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It's a great card, have the same. But didn't think about cross Raiding with it. Thanks!

Yeah, I didn't think about it for a while too. But I kept hitting the 550MB limit internally with the drives and wanted to find a way to increase the speed while keeping it internal. Spreading the bandwidth this way was a perfect solution!

One note is I use SoftRAID for this too, which has worked very well.

 

[orph]

yep something like
os drive
catch drive
media drive
and if your fancy export drive

OS well most ppl like SSD dose not have to be big tho
catch depends but speed is nice
media speed is good depends on projects for not high end stuff like raw a WD black is nice

iv not used cc but cs6 has a few options you can set to change the speed

the codec that your project is will change things a lot for time line work etc
some need faster drives some need faster CPU etc

proxy's are always good or even trans coding (always like pro rez light for simple things)
you can always swap out to originals once the project is done

work flow matters a lot, grading first will slow things down a lot, depends on project and you can always disable the grading.

export speed depends on codec

watch activity monitor

try both cuda and openCL see whats best

have realistic expectations tooo

@PowerMike G5 hay how do you deal with backups? iv just been using external USB3 drives mostly pain as they pile up

 

[PowerMike G5]

@PowerMike G5 hay how do you deal with backups? iv just been using external USB3 drives mostly pain as they pile up

Yeah I feel your pain. I've been buying large capacity hard drives and backing up master dirty, clean, etc. versions of each project, as well as to a RAID1 NAS.

For projects that require the backup of the entire edit folder (like this current film edit), I will just buy high capacity drives and run the minimum needed in Span mode. Then the master deliverables only are backed up as mentioned above.

But yes, a total pain over time. Eventually, I will just get a massive backup system, when it is budgeted into our net project.

 

[wonderspark]

Now that I've been doing some 4K projects, I use ProRes proxies and then replace footage back to original for export. I have a pile of 8TB drives for backups, and just keep active work on a 8-disk RAID 6. I'm thinking of reconfiguring as 8-disk RAID 0, but I've actually been saved by the RAID 6 on one occasion, so it's a tough call.

I'm using a 980 Ti from MVC with CS6 on Yosemite, 48GB RAM on 6-core 3.33GHz 4,1 cMP, Areca 1880ix-16 with 2GB.

 

[h9826790]

Now that I've been doing some 4K projects, I use ProRes proxies and then replace footage back to original for export. I have a pile of 8TB drives for backups, and just keep active work on a 8-disk RAID 6. I'm thinking of reconfiguring as 8-disk RAID 0, but I've actually been saved by the RAID 6 on one occasion, so it's a tough call.

I'm using a 980 Ti from MVC with CS6 on Yosemite, 48GB RAM on 6-core 3.33GHz 4,1 cMP, Areca 1880ix-16 with 2GB.

For crucial job, I think RAID 6 (at least RAID 5) make more sense sense than RAID 0. As you said, you actually safed by the redundancy once already.

 

[devon807]

yeah on premiere pro CC was on 2018 but found that there are a number of issues around the export and rendering so rolled it back to 2017
[doublepost=1511007887][/doublepost]random question, but does anyone know if premier pro is more CPU or GPU on exporting footage?

It uses a bit of both, but depending on what GPU/API you use (OpenCL, CUDA, Metal) it can use more or less GPU, but mostly uses CPU. In my case, I have a 8-Core Hackintosh using a RX 580/OpenCL and iStat menus reports little to no GPU usage. This is the same for AME and Premiere Pro's built-in renderer (the same) I don't usually use Premiere Pro, as most of projects are in FCPX, but I used a ProRes clip and converted it to H.264 and found that Premiere used mostly the CPU in this case.
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[CapnDavey]

Final cut pro X Mac Pro 4,1 GTX680 2 gig flashed to mac edition and it works well for me most video I work with gets converted to 1080p for Blu Ray disc