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Yuannan
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Jul 26, 2016
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JfnovaeDepends on what program you are using, if you are loaded with money and really need video editing power then get a quadro or a firepro. It all really depends on what you are editing and what interface it uses. If it uses CUDA then this would be a great card, but if uses opencl then you might as well get a used 290, or maybe even 4 with the cost of how much this card costs.
gouthamravee
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Jul 26, 2016
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JfnovaeYou'll notice an improvement by converting all your gopro mp4s to either cineform or any other uncompressed format. This card can decode h.264 but nvidia cards usually fall short of amd cards when it comes to openCL performance. It also depends on what NLE you're using, premiere pro supports both openCL and CUDA but only certain plugins can use them and even then the performance increase isn't anything spectacular over pure CPU.
Finally the biggest change I've witnessed with editing speed is adding an SSD as a cache drive, depending on your NLE you should be able to assign a drive or location for cache. Put that on its own SSD and you'll notice a huge improvement.
Finally the biggest change I've witnessed with editing speed is adding an SSD as a cache drive, depending on your NLE you should be able to assign a drive or location for cache. Put that on its own SSD and you'll notice a huge improvement.
Jfnovae
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Jul 28, 2016
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gouthamraveeThis helps. I'm trying to build my first PC. Pcpartspicker is a great site. I'm withthe plan on ssd.
Undecided on nle. I've only used gopros editing software. I have no experience w others.. I YouTube all my Photoshop challenges and learn as I go.
I'm aware cuda is important. But not sure how to capitalize on it.
What card would you recommended? Thank you
What card would you recommended? Thank you
gouthamravee
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Jul 28, 2016
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JfnovaeI'm running a 290 right now, I edit a lot of 1080p 60 fps footage from my sony dslr and gopros when I rent them. while editing I barely see my gpu getting used more than 10 - 20%, my friend has a nvidia 980 and he sees a similar amount of use even though he's using CUDA.
Rendering is a similar story, but I pull all my footage from a networked storage server so the ~1Gb/s connection is more of a bottle neck than anything else. I barely ever see more than 20% gpu use and since the plugins I use (all the red giant plugins) aren't gpu optimized the only thing I assume the GPU is doing is helping decode the compressed footage.
For a couple of shoots I was given the chance to work with prores footage which is barely compressed and noticed a huge difference in speed there since the system doesn't have to decompress as much. I also converted my own footage to avid's uncompressed format, dnx or something since I had the codec for that and again noticed a difference.
For an editing system spend more in ram, storage, and cpu . The gpu is important but you don't need a huge gaming level gpu for that. Though VRAM is important to make sure there's a fast place nearby to store all the pixels.
I highly suggest going with an x99 system since that'll give you tons of room to upgrade. I'm currently saving up to switch from my z77 i5-3570k rig to an x99 i7-5820k rig.
I think someone suggested a quadro card, you're not going to see any benefit from that unless you're using a real workstation system with ECC ram.
Rendering is a similar story, but I pull all my footage from a networked storage server so the ~1Gb/s connection is more of a bottle neck than anything else. I barely ever see more than 20% gpu use and since the plugins I use (all the red giant plugins) aren't gpu optimized the only thing I assume the GPU is doing is helping decode the compressed footage.
For a couple of shoots I was given the chance to work with prores footage which is barely compressed and noticed a huge difference in speed there since the system doesn't have to decompress as much. I also converted my own footage to avid's uncompressed format, dnx or something since I had the codec for that and again noticed a difference.
For an editing system spend more in ram, storage, and cpu . The gpu is important but you don't need a huge gaming level gpu for that. Though VRAM is important to make sure there's a fast place nearby to store all the pixels.
I highly suggest going with an x99 system since that'll give you tons of room to upgrade. I'm currently saving up to switch from my z77 i5-3570k rig to an x99 i7-5820k rig.
I think someone suggested a quadro card, you're not going to see any benefit from that unless you're using a real workstation system with ECC ram.
gouthamravee
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Jul 28, 2016
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Jfnovaealso for the NLE I highly suggest Premiere Pro, its only $10/m from adobe and is quickly becoming an industry standard. Final Cut and avid are also great choices but neither integrates with other adobe software as well as PP. I have the full create cloud suite and pay about $30/m for it. When I edit I clean up and arrange all clips in PP, put together a sequence then I use Photoshop to pull in graphics, for simple animations I use PP but if I need more complex stuff i transfer the clip or sequence into after effects without having to render anything out and then one I finish in AE clicking save pulls the footage into PP, again no need to render anything out. Then once I finish the video I send the whole sequence to Audition to do the audio, here I can bounce the multitrack mix directly back into PP which is a huge time saver.
PP can also read photoshop PSDs so if I have a layered graphic I can pull each layer as clips and animate them individually.
PP can also read photoshop PSDs so if I have a layered graphic I can pull each layer as clips and animate them individually.
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