Video - GTX 480 performance in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

[Joel Kaye]

with scarlet footage, which will be way over 30-42 mb/sec.

You'll still have the option to record at 28 or 36. My attitude was/is I'll start with a simple, inexpensive RAID and upgrade when it's clear I need to. I haven't needed to yet. We'll see what EPIC and 5K bring. I'll test the different data rates. I'm guessing it'll be 42.

Sure it's easy to advise buying all the most expensive stuff. A lot of people here like to do just that.

But I think a lot of people have to allocate their money very wisely and want to know where they can start. That's a much more challenging thing to answer. I'd tell 'em to throw down on a CPU and a good graphics card first. And probably better actors after that. :-)

[Jeremy_Sawatzky]

Ya I just bought the 480 and 6gb more ram. I don't think il be able to use it to its full potential unless I drop a grand on a solid raid setup. But I'm guna hold off on that until scarlet is released. Right now my system is used for editing accurately which it handles without issue. So I'm good to go.

[Tom.Wong]

you sound pretty good for now, and as storage gets cheaper, and in higher capacities, you'll be good to go for scarlet release. the advise was mainly for what you should get for massive r3d files, and wanting to be able to cut it like butter at higher playback settings. I personally can't afford all the biggest SAS raid setups and so on and so forth, wish I could have it all, but rent and food supersede all that :)

But your setup as is now is pretty rockin, and yeh, cheaper solutions are in order for your current workload. But like any workflow I like to have to best combination of performance, capacity, and safety. So a decent raid 5 is something to look at more than the heavy duty monsters until you feel like that current setup just isn't doing it for you anymore.

I don't disagree with you at all Joel, and fortunately there are tons of options for every workflow. And a bad actor can easily destroy any workflow...

[Mohammad]

I think your issue with Red playback is insufficient system RAM at 6GB. Plus, Adobe recommends a minimum RAID 0 of a pair of 7200 rpm drives for high data rate footage playback...

Adobe's own 64-bit document recommends 32GB of RAM for working with Red 4K footage, which requires a Server or Workstation motherboard...

Maybe somebody out there can confirm this?

I have system with this spec:
2x(Xeon x5550)
48GB Ram 1333 ECC Reg
Quadro FX 3800
MB supermicro X8da3
1X300GB SAS HDD for OS and Programs
3X1.5TB 7500 RPM RAID 0 for Projects

OS Windows 7 64bit
Adobe CS5 Master Collection

and it's trouble for 4K footage!!!!

[Nick D]

I have system with this spec:
2x(Xeon x5550)
48GB Ram 1333 ECC Reg
Quadro FX 3800
MB supermicro X8da3
1X300GB SAS HDD for OS and Programs
3X1.5TB 7500 RPM RAID 0 for Projects

OS Windows 7 64bit
Adobe CS5 Master Collection

and it's trouble for 4K footage!!!!

I've called Adobe tech support about the exact system configuration needed to run 3-4 streams of Red 4K footage with effects as in the demos, and I get nothing but a runaround with no specifics, quite disappointing for dropping thousands to get Master Collection...

Only two things that might seem might be at issue for you Mohammad are the speed of the RAID 0 you have, and the CPU speed- I keep hearing overclocked desktop CPU outperform the dual server CPU's, but that of course limits the RAM available for After effects to 24GB... That, plus not "everything" is accelerated, so YMMV depending on your expectations for Premiere Pro and After Effects...

So far, I'm not happy with Adobe's response...