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Thanks for the post Juxx989. Everyone who wants to know the truth can find it if they're willing to look for it. For the first time in history there is a chance to radically change the world, without violence. Learn the truth. Think of constructive ways to help. Be part of the solution.

There is a very deep power struggle going on right now. Let's be thankful so far. The other side wants WW3. The other side wants division. Let's unite for peace. Let's envision the world we want to create and make it reality.

Perhaps their combined egos of wanting to be liked will guide them into doing things that will be good for us all. We fix the world be first being kind to each other, even when we disagree. There are forces in this world trying to divide us. Do you see them?

How do we heal ourselves and the world?

The Universe is a kind of reactive computer. What you think it will create, you being part of it.

Minimizing risk makes total sense. In terms of performance, I was able to edit 4K C300 II files (around 410Mbps) on a 7200 RPM HD over 1Gbps network smoothly. In Windows PP CC 2017 seems a little faster with 4K (GTX 980ti, 12 Core 2.93).

How about a Samsung 960 Pro?

Normally I'd agree regarding external USB drives, however USB 3 is really fast, and the WD Ultra 2TB drives are rated at 110MB/s read (and get about that for real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8p03IjCclA ). 4K C300 II files are around 440Mbps or ~55MB/s which gives us around 2x overhead which matches my experience as well. 1DX II 4K60p is ~800Mbps or 100MB/s and those work as well too. Transitions might cause a burst slowdown, however since reading is faster than the file bitrate the system can catch up in most cases (my real world experience). For something more complex, sure, an SSD or HD RAID 0 is needed. Our 4K complexity comes from green screen, compositing, visual effects, large images, etc. (large images can also choke/expose PP CC bugs). I would expect the 3.5GB/s (3.5 GIGABYTE per sec!) NVMe PCIe drive to blow away just about any multidrive solution except perhaps 2 NVMe drives in RAID 0 ;). There is no seek overhead, it's RAM and PCIe is faster than SATA (latency), and it's going to be faster than multiple spinning disks with seek latency (when total bandwidth is the same or more). Loading apps in a blink is pretty cool (and does save time- it adds up), and with 2T there's enough room for editing a full project 100% on the drive (our episodes are less than 30 minutes finished). Once released the project can be moved to a 3.5 HD archive (4 drive dockers are handy- can fill drives and put in a case then take offline and store). 4 Samsung 850 Pro would be ~2.2GB/s RAID 0, still getting smoked by the single 960 Pro at 3.5GB/s (except in total storage). It depends on the 4K material: GH4 tends to be easier, A7S2 harder, and C300 II and 1DX II 60p the hardest. Perhaps also consider trying more RAM (e.g. 64GB) before getting a new machine. WD Black is plenty fast unless you're compositing a bunch of 4K videos in the same frame (transitions will be fine).

The NVMe PCIe drive is 3.5GB/s read- mostly for app loading speed. I tend to edit off of 2TB WD USB3 external drives and rotate them out when full- they are plenty fast for compressed 4K files (FCPX has not problem, PP CC is slow/choppy unless using proxies and/or 1/2 or 1/4 playback res). I also have a 4 drive 3.5 HD cartridge system for backups (eSATA and USB3). You're right, a 12-Core 2.93GHz and GTX 980ti should be more than fast enough, and it is with FCPX (easily). Watching RAM usage on the new machine playing 4K material I noticed that PP CC used up 20GB of RAM. The 12-Core has only 24GB of RAM. Might try upping the RAM to 64GB ($319 from macsales.com). Would be useful to have 2 machines 4K capable (back up in case of hardware issue with one machine etc.). Also, sometimes there are bugs in PP CC in Windows and not OSX and vice versa, useful to be able to run either OS. That's a cool build using parts known to work with Uni/Multibeast/Clover etc. Super easy install for that hardware. X99 is newer and takes a lot more work to find all the right pieces and edit all the right files. Probably not that hard once all the pieces/configs found though For real-time editing the dual AMD 280X's and GTX 1080 might be pretty close, for rendering the 10 core will be a bit faster ECC is only supported on Xeon processors and it's also a bit slower. Unless one is in space (cosmic rays), non-ECC is pretty reliable (PP CC bugs far outweigh possible memory issues ;)). Each processor in a dual CPU system can access all the memory using e.g. QPI with little overhead: https://www.quora.com/On-a-dual-CPU-system-Xeon-can-a-single-processor-access-all-the-memory . Would be interesting to see how a modern dual 6 core Xeon (using 10 cores) at the same clock speed as I7 10 core compares (perhaps down clocked). Yeah we ran into that and installed the prior version to work around the issue (happened in both Windows and OSX). Using 2017 on new machine, so far so good (tests only, will start editing real projects tomorrow). Haha pretty cool! Doesn't really run faster; too bad fish can't live in mineral oil Liquid nitrogen or helium is pretty neat (5.7 (6950x) to 8+GHz (5 years ago) overclocking). Thanks! I read the D15 wouldn't fit in the 330R case:http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2966620/noctua-d15s-fit-corsair-330r-case.html . It looks like the eVGA SuperNOVA P2 uses the Super Flower Leadex Platinum platform http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2523573/super-flower-psu.html?

Our 2010 2.93GHz 12-core MacPro with GTX 980ti couldn't edit complex 4K footage smoothly in Premiere Pro CC (in OSX El Capitan or Win10x64Pro). FCP X for the most part can handle medium complexity 4K (chroma key, multiple 4K streams at once, very high resolution stills (Ken Burns etc.). However, I'm quite a bit faster in PP CC, and I need to research plugins to replicate what I can do with Lumetri (if such a plugin exists). It was time to upgrade the video editing machine, and it seemed like building a Hackintosh would create a far faster machine than anything Apple currently has to offer. The goal was to balance high performance with low noise on air cooling only (tricky!). Here's the machine: Corsair Carbide Series 330R Blackout Edition Ultra-Silent Mid-Tower Case ASUS X99-DELUXE II LGA 2011-v3 ATX Motherboard (ASUS has fancier boards however this appears to be just as fast) Intel Core i7-6950X 3.0 GHz Ten-Core LGA 2011-v3 Extreme Edition Processor (have been buying or building dual CPU Xeons for over 10 years. The single chip high clock 10 core looked to be the best fit for video editing vs. lower clock more core Xeons) Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 3466 (PC4-27700) C16 with Airflow, Black CMK64GX4M4B3466C16 Noctua Dual Tower CPU Cooler for Intel LGA 2011-0/LGA 2011-3 Square ILM/1156/1155/1150 and AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/3+,FM1/2 NH-D9L Noctua AAO Frame Design, SSO2 Bearing Premium Quality Quite Fan NF-A9 PWM (Extra fan for CPU cooler) ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX Graphics Card (STRIX-GTX1080-A8G-GAMING) (purchased over eVGA (normally favorite) due to heat issues with ACX 3 and the VRM chip) Corsair ML120 Pro, 120mm Premium Magnetic Levitation Cooling Fan CO-9050040-WW (to replace rear case fan) Corsair ML140, 140mm Premium Magnetic Levitation Fan (2-Pack) (to replace front fan and add additional fan to cool hard drives) Samsung 2TB 960 PRO M.2 Internal SSD (fastest drive available (~3.5GB/s), for OS, Apps, temp projects) WD 4TB Black 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD (long term storage for video projects) EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000W Power Supply (higher quality PSU's increase component life and reliability) Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit, OEM DVD) (lower cost than download!) SanDisk 16GB Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive (downloaded Win10 from Microsoft and used key from DVD to create USB installer) I was able to get it stable at 3.96GHz (in turbo/boost) with core temps max around 65-69C (all fans running 100%, fan speed temp ramping tuned in bios). Memory was only stable at 2666 (so much for 3466 rating). It will run at 4-4.1GHz, however some cores temp spike to 80C, so is probably too much for this air cooling set up. The latest NVidia drivers are still buggy with Premiere- the "black screen bug with Ultra key" is still present. I installed the latest CUDA development video driver figuring it might be more stable than the game-oriented drivers (black screen bug hasn't appeared in latest green screen project yet). 4K editing in software mode is pretty smooth (full res preview)! So if the GPU driver has severe bugs during a project I can switch to software mode and still work reasonably fast. Windows 10's font rendering looks much crisper than El Capitan. Window rendering and overall GUI speed is also much faster- feels like you are working faster. Once Windows 10 checked out with Premiere Pro I dug a bit deeper into what it would take to install OSX (would test on a hard drive then replace with SSD). Here's the closest I found for this motherboard (uses apparently the same bios). Doable however a lot of time hunting down kext (kernel extensions) and trial and error. So for the time being the new machine is Windows only- I can access both machines through a USB switch for keyboard/mouse (monitors have dual inputs). At idle this machine is nearly silent, much quieter than the 2010 MacPro. It's good to see that after 6 years there's been some progress in CPUs and memory (GPUs have had much more performance growth). The new NVMe PCI SSD drives are insanely fast, however 4K editing straight from a USB3 port and CFast 2.0 works fine (as does editing from a hard drive over SATA- not the bottleneck). Hopefully this info will be helpful for anyone looking to build a fast and quiet 4K editing box.

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For a variety of reasons, mathematical and physical, most 4K cameras don't really produce actual, clean, alias-free 4K of resolution. The C300 Mark I and C100 Mark I/II produce true 2K using 4K sensors. The C300 II does not produce true 4K (measured at 3300x1750) nor does the 1DX II (looks similar to C300 II 4K). To produce real, alias-free 4K we need to sample at 2x the resolution (per Nyquist) or 8K. Thus 8K cameras can finally give us full 4K resolution for playback. This looks amazing on a 4K monitor (skintones are nice too!):

Pretty cool if true: http://rumors.camera/2016/08/16/canon-cn-e-18-80-will-work-1d-x-mark-ii/ 1DX II with the 18-80 servo zoom could be a great stealth/doc camera package.

Hey Dan the dark edges on the hair are probably from the green screen keyer (Ultra in PP CC). Will look into that issue for future shoots. Thanks for pointing it out. Thanks FilmMan. C300 II is set up with 'Alexa' settings, using an Alexa LUT in Lumetri, and various quick tweaks with shadows, highlights, and saturation. Sound- one channel is the Schoeps CMC6 MK41 and the other is the Audix SCX-1 HC, both straight into the camera (with limiter enabled). These mics sound very similar despite the difference in cost. While the limiters and AD converters in Sound Devices recorders are better, the C300 II does a pretty good job.

@tomekk asked for a 1DX II test to see if it suffers from a problem reported for the 1DC. 1DX II 4K24p recorded for 20 minutes in a 75F office with lens cap on- didn't get very hot. Ramped from ISO 200 to 12800, Lumetri exposure set to 2.5 stops to show noise pattern:

Here's an oldie bigfoot- we made it private as it no longer meets our quality standards :P. Taken out of retirement temporarily for your viewing pleasure: Haha mercer wouldn't that be home schooling lol... Keep watching and listening... :D

Thanks for noticing the background/foreground blur. We have limited time to produce these and figure most viewers will be on mobile devices. In any case, I'll be sure to add Gaussian blur on backgrounds sharper than the foreground (have been doing this sometimes but not always). This was shot on the C300 II at 1080p 50Mbps IPB (holds up really well for most things, however for moderate to extreme grades, I might start using 12-bit 444 1080p). If I have time tomorrow I'll do the test with the 1DX II.

In case you were wondering...

La La Land- the 60's Technicolor look is back. The cycle repeats Film or digital- great color capture can be pushed to massive saturation and still look good.

We are in the dawning age of Aquarius: while the world seems very dark right now, we are waking up to a new bright age of a radical shift in consciousness and awareness of the true nature of reality. A lot like what happened in the 60's and 70's though very different because of the connectedness of the internet. The ego-driven dominator culture is being transformed into a similar-but-new form that existed before the dominator culture took over (driven by the harmful drugs alcohol, caffeine, and sugar), to a plant-based feminine partnership culture (driven by healing plants and fungi). Plants and fungi are key in this transformation, as they were thousands of years ago when hominids evolved into homo sapiens and consciousness and awareness were massively expanded. We'll discuss organic nutrition and healing plants and fungi in future videos- we heal the world by first healing ourselves.

Shot on C300 II (4K), cover photo and beach scene 1DX II (4K 60p).

The 1DX II is indeed a great camera for stills and video- the best hybrid right now. The C300 II is a superior video camera with almost no RS and the 12-bit 444 along with ARRI color settings is like using a super-light Alexa with amazing AF. The 4K is excellent too and the lack of 4K 60 really hasn't been a big deal. We're currently shooting a ton of footage so the much smaller 1080p files from the C300 II are very helpful. In order to get decent 1080p from the 1DX II we must shoot 4K and downscale/transcode (not a huge deal but still extra work in post). For low light and longer events, the A7S II is still currently unmatched. If using a Canon camera to capture reference color, the A7S II when using Slog2 and SGamut3.cine color, exposing +2 over, careful manual WB, nice skin tones are possible: Now that I've used these cameras for a while, even better color is possible with a little post. Straight out of camera Canon still leads with color. Sony has been catching up- the A7S II is pretty good with a little post work, and even the GH4 is still a useful tool. The A7S III and GH5 will likely have better color- AF still has a way to go though Sony could surprise us with something very good (based on the A7R II AF). Indeed the 1DX II is a superior 5D3 replacement vs. the 5D4 if one also shoots video.

@fuzzynormal that's about right lol. Examining their source code when writing plugins it's clear they need a complete from-scratch rewrite, ideally combining After Effects and PP into one program (HitFilm gives an idea what this can look like). Latest FCPX looks really nice and is much more stable and far faster with 4K than PP CC. Resolve is also coming along nicely (still a ways off from being a full blown NLE to compete with FCPX and PP CC). @Parker 2015.3 10.4.0 has a huge memory leak (also happens on Windows, so it's core code, not OS specific). 10.3.0 leaks less often. Another issue has been NVidia drivers- it should not be possible to bring the OS down on a crash (this can happen when using OpenCL. CUDA never crashes the OS but exhibits the 'black screen' bug where after a while the view goes and stays black until PP is restarted). Everything we do currently uses green screen and compositing (Ultra for keying)- appears to cause more problems for PP CC than simple edits. @raf702 thanks for the report. Let us know if you find any issues.

https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/features.html 2015.3 (10.4.0) was very buggy, reverted to 10.3.0- has been much more stable. With latest Creative Cloud don't see 10.3.0 as an option to revert back to. Hopefully 2017 fixes cumulative bugs without adding new ones (waiting to update after hearing there are less bugs).