Ottetal

Dear Linus TechTips I find myself in a bit of a struggle between After Effects powerful Keylight, and Premie Pros lesser Ultra Key. I have three ways of working right now. For all three I use my greenscreen studio with 5 lamps – two front, two for the greenscreen itself, and the last for back lighting of the subject. Computer specs: 7700k @ 4.9Ghz, no AVX offset. 64Gb RAM, GTX 1070. All material is shot in dnx hr hqx 4k on a Ninja Inferno Premiere Pro only: I apply keylighting in Premiere Pro via Ultrakey, and get a mediocre result. Rendertimes are great! 100% GPU usage, and around 15 min rendertime for a 20min clip, and an incredibly workable timeline. AE Render in Premiere Pro. Apply the Keylight effect in aftereffects, render to 10Bit Cineform, which take around 3 hours to render. Put the rendered view in Premiere Pro, and work as normal. This nets me no GPU acceleration at render, but timeline performance is great. Additional rendertime is two hours, bringing the total to five hours. Result is much prettier than UltraKey AE Project in Premiere Pro. Same workflow as above, but I just embed the AE project in Premiere instead of rendering from AE. This makes timeline performance horrendous, but the total rendertime is “only” around 2 hours and 30 minutes. Result is much prettier than UltraKey This is all fine and dandy, but I really miss working solely from Premiere, and the vastly increased performance that it brings. What can I do to enhance my experience with keying from within Premiere? Kind regards!

Hi @jj9987. I did expect that to be the culprit. I cannot find a way within Synology to measure IOPS - do you know where I can? Will it make any difference if I store the Project file locally? (Or on a small SSD powered NAS) @NelizMastr, thanks! getting a SAN is out of the question right now, and we kind if rely on some of the Synologys features. Not perfect to have a single point of failure, but such is the life of a growing business. I found a rs3617xs locally for bonkers cheap, which would give me capacity to add NVMe Caching, and a real SSD array.

Hello! I have a weird issue. I currently have four editors editing 4k dnxhr hqx material of a Synology 1817+ NAS with four 4TB wd Reds and four 8TB ironwolfes all in a single volume with SHR2 (Same as RAID6) parity. The NAS has 8GB of RAM. I get 800MBps reads and 300MBps reads on the array from a editingcomputer, and all computers are on a 10Gb network. I have constant instability. Adobe programs crashing left and right, work is lost and people are mad. In the beginning, I thought speeds on the array was the culprit, but the thing is - its not doing very much 10Mbps reads/writes per user. I cannot wrap my head around what is going on! Adobe Project files are on the NAS, if that makes a difference I hope you can give me a point in the right direction

Final build pictures are in! Not a ton have changed from last night. I changed around the routing and mounting of the two rear f8s, made some minor cosmetic changes to the CPU cooler and rerouted the 24pin. I have also soldered on the start button, but its not really visible or of any interest to you In this lighting condition, the paint job really shows.. Lets get this case in a rack asap. I like how the front IO turned out Braces on - almost a shame Will update again when the rack cabinet is finished

Build is taking shape! Not quite satisfied with the cables - the sleeved ones take up a ton more space than the stock ones Only had time to fire up the rig once - pleasantly surprised at how much air the f12 and especially f8s push through. That does come with a cost: Noise. I will have to toy with fan control to get them where I want. I like how the 5.25" bays turned out. The bottom one is for excess cables. While I do use a modular PSU, we will all have excess cables. Middle is the Icy Dock, and top is going to be a drawer, lol. I am always loosing my thumb drives - they will go there. I need to wire the front switch up. There are some issues with it, its currently out. Debating on getting a vandal switch, but it will almost never be seen, and I will have to take the front out to do so. The case flexes more than what I would like, but its manageable with the crossbrase that is of course removed for this picture. More to come!

CPU cooler arrived. Buying Noctua is the greatest shame of my computer history, but damn, I understand why people adore them

no ugly lightning decals down the front. Since the old rig is going down in a week or so, I might as well share some pictures of how that looks currently; As you can see it will be mostly the same. I will have one more 5.25" bay at the cost of one front intake fan, which may or may not be a huge deal. If I were to design a 4u rack from the bottom, I would mimic the design I used in the case above. Two 5.25" bays next to the PSU, and space for a 120.2 CLC next to it. Would clear up space for incredibly long graphics cards, and with an internal bar or add-in frame It could house a ton of 3.5" drives

CPU cooler arriving early next week - that will be the last essential part before the swap Since I am changing PSUs, I could install that today, and begin on some of the cable management. I also installed the PCIe bracket covers (woah, such an update) - I love the way the two different models turned out to look. Colours are all over the place. Luckily my motherboard has blue acents as well. Shame its not the same blue as whats found on the HX750i I originally wanted the internal pieces to remain in their stock steel finish. I am having second thoughts now!

Small update; I am no longer planning to use the x99 hardware. My x79 performs how I want it, and I don't have to buy another set of RAM, have them matched, sell an old cpu and buy a newer one to get it to work. I have updated the intro post to reflect this: Parts list are therefore as follows: i7 4820k Gigabyte x79s-up5-wifi Sapphire r9 290 Tri-X 16Gb Corsair XMS 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM 2x 120Gb Corsair force GS 2x 240Gb Sandisk SSD plus To-be-figured-out 3.5” HDD Noname 4u rackase (That looks an awefully lot like the Codegen 500mm 4u case) Going with x99 would have been nice, but I would rather go with what makes sense - to me

Hello all. First of all, I apoplogize for the long delay. It has been a mixed bag of feelings -mostly bad- for me in the mean time, but I do wish to tell the story that belongs to. If you don't feel like reading it, scroll down to the last paragraph before the pictures, as it will say what went down with the build. Anyways. I don't remember how much time it is, but over a month ago, I took the caseparts to an automotive paintshop to have them professionally repainted. I sat down with the owner, talked to him for a little over an hour, and while he had not worked on computer parts before, he had had plenty of experience with painting all sorts of weird gizmos, in his over 50 year long career. Surely a cople of panels from a computer would mean no issues. The price he quoted me in the beginning was supposed to contain a sandblasting of the parts to get rid of the old paint, preparation/base coats and of course a black automotive finish. He said he would call back “in one of the next following days”. Fast forward three weeks, I had not heard from him. I decided to go pay him a visit, and hear whats up. When I got there and asked about my parts, stating I would like them back, since it has been so long, and nothing had happened, he looked at me with a confused smile. “but we already did your parts, Ottetal”. That was NOT the deal. I asked him to show me the now finished parts, and for a price of the work. The actual price was three times more than the one he quoted due to “difficulties in painting” bullshit. The next big thing for me is that while I am in no way a good painter, of have the skills to indentify such, the parts were – while much better than when I delivered them – not anywhere near perfect condition. I expect to get parts in perfect condition, especially for what I was supposed to pay for them. The price he quoted for painting was so high that I would be able to buy TWO of the same cases from caseking.de, which are already painted on the outside, have them shipped and taxes done, with still some room to spare. When I turned the parts in, I forgot two rubber washers on them, which I thought had been removed. To my surprise, they were covered in paint. When I pointed the other mistakes out, he said something along the lines of “to be expected in a project this size”, “did not see” and “thats normal” . When I pointed out the fact that the two rubber washers were not gone – even though the supposed sandblasting treatment – his story started to fall apart. He offered to redo the case, properly, for the price he quoted. I told him that he had not only tried to deliver a faulty product, but also the fact that he broke several deals, like calling me back in “one of the next few days”, and not doing anything until I explicitly pulled the trigger. Of course, I refused his offer. He said “Hey I'm sorry – how about you get the parts as is, and only paint for the paint I used?” While enticing at first, I don't want to commit to anything when I don't have a clear mind. I swung by my parents house to talk to my father. He is always great with theese things. As he pointed out, I never made a deal on paper with anything, I was always alone when I discussed what I wanted to have done, and no matter what happened it would be his word against mine. I picked up my parts a few days later, for the price of the paint. He excused a couple more times, and said something about being better next time. I don't care, he lost a customer for life. Looking at the parts at home, it looks like he forgo the sandblasting, and did a light sanding instead. My guess would be that the case got a few layers of paint on top of that because the paint looks a bit like sand “on the inside”. Since its glossy black (specifically asked to not get this) its super hard to take pictures of, but I have tried as you can see below. On the plus side, I now have one of the few all black rackmounted cases. Wee. I am not a fan of Noctua and try to avoid them as much as I can, but I needed a good cooler that fits inside a 4u case, comes with good stock fans, and is not a CLC. There are tons of coolers that fit this purpose, but I want to keep a simple as possible airflow, so a tower cooler was a must. I therefore decided to pick up a nh-u9dx-i4, for my CPU. Depending on the results, I will run it without fans and rely on the two Arctic F8 fans that should be just behind it. I am still in the process of assembling the case – will do a build when the cooler arrives next week! In the meantime, I think I will fit the new PSU, train the cables and mount cable tiedowns. Here are the pictures; till later!

Main monitors is at a friends house - this is the meantime

Mange tak The keyboard I have used the most, is a 6gv2 from Steelseries with black switches. I have also spent a lot of time with my KBT Pure Pro, with mx blues, that you see in the picture with 5 monitors. The beige one is a Unicomb Model m Spacesaver with buckling springs, and not pictured is an apple chiclet board that I use a ton as well. Steelseries is from Elgiganten, KBT pure Pro is from a good friend in US Unicomb I got as a gift, but its ordered through their website and the Apple chiclet board is from my girlfriend.

Why stop? I don't game as much as I did when I made the eyefinity 5 setup - which was made entirely for gaming, of course, but I can point my fingers to many siturations where I daily could benefit from six monitors. I just don't know if its my thing. I think I am productive when I have physical borders in between my monitors, instead of software ones, if I used a 40" 4k TV as an example. Besides, old monitors are cheap, if I don't keep the setup, no biggie. I want it off the bucket list!

This buildlog is not just about the computer. Its about using my computer setup in a better way. Bt eliminating noise and making the rig rackmountable, I can have a much cleaner work environment. But I don't interact directly with the computer. I interact with my peripherals and monitors, Ill therefore talk a little about those. Here is what I recently setup, to test out staggered screens Since I have already tried eyefinty 5, as seen below, I am contemplating trying out eyefinity 6 I have a local connection, which might be able to hook me up with some old monitors; I have decided to try out 3x2 - Possibly with 4:3 or 5:4 monitors for fun

The new video that just launched on Vessel gives you a great insight in how this works Thank you, I enjoy reading the weather for Dutch people, just as much as everyone else does!