I have been shooting and editing with Scarlet for a year now. I had used Red1 in a couple of projects prior to that. I don't own one, but a rental company is available when needed... I am hopping to buy my own next year this time around. If things progress as I hope, finger crossed! I have access to couple of
Toshiba Regza monitors. But essentially I am not doing any mastering anyways... When I have the rough edit done I'll take it to the studio. Although If I will indulge myself with anything it will be a new LG 4K 84 inch TV! I want one of those in my house..
For music I have been working with couple of setups (that neither belonged to me) with very flexible workflow utilizing, Cubase under Win 7, along with Logic under OSX and Avid/Pro Tools, in the same machine. And on the side an XP 32 bit, when needed...
This is exactly what I want this Rig to be capable of doing...
I have never heard of using VM with After Effects but I have worked on machines that uses Ram Disk. I mean forget about SSD, not even 2 SSDs in Raid 1! And I really do have to buy two more SSDs for Raid 10...
I am very curious about "beyond four cores' problem in After Effects" topic you mentioned.. I'd love to hear about that.. It suggests almost like mimicking 2xCPU in action...
Perhaps wishful thinking... That has to be the next build... Double E5-2687W with Quadro 6000/Tesla Maximus configuration...
Then I can start third world war!
Take the Maximus out, keep the xeons , you got my original plan. I was to get the xeons... But everything had to come from overseas and that didn't fit in this project at all...
OC is something that hovers a foot above my head at the moment. Obviously with rendering and almost every aspect of After Effects OC is essential... One of the connoisseurs in Adobe forum, he is also the editor I think, loves OC too for a reason. If you checked his link on my previous post, you know, he has a web site that is very vital for the Adobe community... Which is essentially a benchmark site for PP since CS4 I believe... His knowledge and experience with Adobe CS PP & AE workflow has been critically useful to me and to others. Well at least over a year... And the funny thing is I also mentioned his PPBM6 site at the first page of this thread to Proximon, but I didn't realize until like a week ago that the same person from Adobe Forum, I depend on many levels, happens to run the show at PPBM6 which end up being an anchor for my rig...
I should really mention Proximon here... If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have found PPBM6 in first place... He stirred me with good questions and high nutrient information and that made me dig dipper towards the right direction so made my process evolve faster...
Anyways Harm Millaard (that's his name) also has a side attraction called
"Planning and Building a NLE system" He uses 64GB 2133MHz sticks...
Which he built a beast there.. His, 'Planning The System' pages accelerated my decisions making process really fast.. I needed that..
He already has begun the test drive. I'm still shy of RAM, GPU, Cooling Plan and what not...
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By the way I want to thank you for trying to educate me hopping that I'd avoid doing wrong investments, I appreciate it... I feel like I am obligated now to draw a better portrait of my self.
I work actively as a writer/director producer for over four years now. I've been involved with writing and many different aspects of producing and directing for very long time both here and in US. I had few breaks in between but of course without ever stop writing...
Actually I am hopping to get out Channel dependent projects and (pre ordered or "over powered" our own projects) become full time independent film maker/producer. I want to write/produce decent work, I mean for TV. Making a Film you don't have to deal with BS like ratings and what not! You have to be independent if you wanna produce quality substance especially for TV. So that's what I am pursuing right now.
For this project, I need to be able to work with, both 3840x2160 and 1920x1080 (all in 24p) I will also work with timelaps like slow down the footage and stuff... (very large frames) But first I must deliver this rig already... Otherwise I will have to work somewhere else and I truly don't need that in my work environment. That's the hole idea of rushing to build this rig...
So that's where I am right now... A bit panicking!
BTW The coast difference between ZOTAC's GTX 680 4GB and 2GB versions is about 90 dollars!.. Also bare in mind that there are no GTX 680 substitutions around here! Not even 2GB options from neither EVGA nor Gainward, even not Asus... So I'm stuck with
ZOTAC's GTX 680... If I had chance I would have loved to get a
Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom 2, 4GB... But tell you the truth I should be very grateful to have this card in here with warranty really...
I am saying that but if I'd have any problems with the card I don't believe even if they have a second unit that they can provide...
So I need to make 2 decisions (and they all have to be bought from overseas...)
1) CORSAIR Vengeance 1600 64GB (8 x 8GB) OR G.SKILL Ripjaws Z 1600 64GB ?
2)Which CPU Block?
Thank you for all the help and sorry for this long and suffocating post...
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QUICK UPDATE
I said to my self; "What are you waiting for? What happens if someone decides to buy most likely the last GPU Card? What then?"
As I was placing the order with paranoia, phone rang... It's the store, and they're telling me that they decided to drop the tax off of the Card!!! That's like $220.00! Because this unit has been sitting there, it's 2GB counterpart selling like pancakes, and because I seemed reluctant to buy since two weeks past and no purchase! So they thought better to convince me.. Hey I am sold..
