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Agreed, Thanks for the input. Is there anyone from the LMG editing or production team I could @ mention to get some input on how they manage digital asset management?

Short: Hoping to learn from how LTT organizes its video footage and apply some best practices to our new film server environment. We just finished building a 160TB server and need a process for our 5 editors to organize the footage. Goals are: 1. Reduce/eliminate file duplication. 2. Structure the resource so any given film product is in one place. 3. Structured so that any departures or new hires can hand off projects, or find old projects with relative simplicity. 4. Allow IT to audit the usage of the space for cleanup and capacity expansion planning. 5. Some kind of "enforcement" policy of the above organizational design because we're all human and want to do easy instead of healthy if there is no enforcement. Questions: What system does LTT use to organize their footage with so many editors? What are the industry "best practices:" What tools might be useful for implementation and enforcement? Long: I work in IT for a medium-sized non-profit. We just finished building out a 160TB film server running windows server 2022. We have 5 film editors (2 part-time) and a few contractors we use on occasion. I proposed a date-based system and a structure for the internal files but it was too inflexible for some of the project types. Problem is, right now we have a "this is my folder of stuff" system. And while that mostly works, if 2 people are working on projects that use the same footage, they duplicate to have a "my folder of stuff" copy of it. And if a project gets abandoned or has multiple test renders etc those are all just siting in the folders taking up space (and eventually expediting the cost of having to add extra storage.) Additionally, if someone were to leave the company, cleaning up and handing over the "this is my stuff" folder in a useful way is unlikely. As a "not best practice" example, we have an online file hosting platform that is a no-mans-land of old and current projects. The head filmmaker probably knows enough clean out what doesn't need to be on the cloud, costing a monthly storage fee, but as the head filmmaker, he is busy. So getting him to set aside time for storage usage audits is difficult. So with all that said, we're trying to find a functional solution and would love some community and LTT input! Thanks!

Maybe this is a good excuse to get that floatplane.com sub. Was this close to not having anything to watch during lunch. Thankfully LMG chips is still up. (hoping the best for you guys)

Anyone feel like weighting up a change list if I were looking to use the new AMD LGA grid CPUs? I assume mostly the same just with a CPU and motherboard swap?

I don't think it is the exact same as the one on the site, but this goes over the final version.

Ah, good point. I was wondering why the first batch was smaller.

Could have been someone at LTT

@Spotty Any chance you could help or guy above work with the Merch people to fix the shipping on his order?

Do I spy unreleased Merch in the photos of the Backorders?

Only know as much as I've seen on LTT never had hands on with it. Thanks for the advice, I was originally thinking one 20+ RAID5 but I could see the idea of splitting it up. I'd just wish we could keep it all looking like one bulk storage array to the editors rather than having them have to access each RAID 5 individually. he knows windows server best, but I'd also be the one probably running maintenance on the server more often so I was concerned with windows server being more complicated than other alternatives I'll look into used server, Just don't want to cripple Film with some partial solution. Not being an expert, I figured if it was built from the ground up, the server be a more controlled and understood spec for deployment. Kind of swimming in options honestly. If anyone has a good resource for server build and deployment 101 I'd appreciate it. (and anything related to film work specifically would be grand) The nic ports are all just ported over from Linuses build If I recall, we would really only have around 4 direct connections. But I agree I think we will just as well put them on a switch for the office network rather than do direct connect. Thanks to everyone for the initial set of feedback! I really appreciate the input

TLDR: Our film team needs a file server, I pulled a parts list basically point for point from one of Linus' old builds. My IT Director is a windows server guy and wants to build out a windows file server for the film team. I'm concerned a windows server is not the best options and need some good counterpoints/alternative solution. Point/counterpoint - looking for 100tb or more - We are a non-profit so budgets are whack - Everything else is a windows comp or windows server. - I end up being the de facto IT tech on anything non-windows (like the 12 or so mac computers we also have.) - I'm no server admin and probably don't have the time to become one by june (Though that would be amazing) Budget (including currency): $12,000 us dollars (but could probably be more if it's not good enough at 12k) Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Live editing Film file storage and asset management Other details : Parts list - "based on a true Server" - from LTT Case - iStarUSA E4M24HD CPU - EPIC 7302p CPU cooler - Noctua NH-U9 TR4-SP3 Motherboard - EPYCD8-2T PSU - FSP twins Pro 700w Gold RAM - Crucial 32gb 3200 ecc *8 NIC - Intel x710 T4 *2 HBA - LSI 9305-16i x8 16 port Cable - SFF-8643 miniSAS HD *4 Boot SSD - 256gb ASATA ssd * 2 - Raid 1 cash SSD - Sabrent 2tb NVMe * 2 - RAID 1 HDD - 12tb segate EXOS drive * 20 - RAID 5 HDD cold spares- 12tb segate EXOS drive * 2 cables HDD power - Quad Molex splitter * 3 Current setup: I had Puget build out a computer with a massive 50tb array and it's been a boss but just a year later and it's almost out of space. And with our 3 editors on the 2nd floor, 5th floor, & guatemala (fun times) The lack of a true server means way more Sneakernet than I would like. Most final projects are on the computer of the person who was in charge of editing it, With a backup of the raw files on the 50tb array. Our senior editor film hates proxies (and I doubt we are about to win that argument) Our files are some ProRes, some R3D and some MXF (from an ARRI) - so lots of big ones. The last 2 day shoot was 12tb - not exaggerating - (but that was specifically larger project set for IMAX style final quality. normal projects are around 2-6tb for large projects (3 times a year) and 200gb or less for smaller ones) Final questions: - Is the budget reasonable, if not how do I sell the up-spend to the CFO - Is the current build still good? - thoughts on the 100tb sizing? - Would windows server work or do we need to go another route. (Remembering I'm still not a server admin) - If not windows server, Recommendations on selling the alternative to the IT director?

I mean; is nice. but it's a 3060 (vs 3060 ti) At any rate sounds like I'll have to look around for a different solution. Edit: Sorry, just realized I read your original post incorrectly. @Mel0nMan

Lol. Id take a 3060 ti 12 GB if that existed.

Does anyone know if there is a laptop that runs the 3060 with 12gb of vram? All I can find in laptop form are the 6gb variants. All the 12gb ones are full desktop cards. I am looking for a laptop going to a new editor we will be hiring soon at our company. I know we need more than 8gb of vram for some of our larger projects because we currently have a portable alienware with a 3080 mobile chip and our editor repeatedly remarks that it has crash due to insufficient vram (davinci resolve 16 on windows 10 for anyone who is interested to know.) I'm less worried about the gpu ability to get the job done fast than having it get the job done at all hence my search for the 3060 12gb mobile. If anyone has fond a laptop that has that gpu I would greatly appreciate links!

Ah, I do remember them mentioning something like that. thanks! So there just using system audio and a window capture. well that's definitely a simple way to do it.

Now that WAN show is remote, I wanted to know if anyone had some guesses as to how they were getting Luke in as a guest? I've been building and re-building live stream systems from my company and we haven't found a good solution for stability getting multiple remote guests into the call. I've seen his initial setup per this video https://youtu.be/Wy0SrAp2vpo But he only covered some of the hardware he was using. (And they have since improved it now.) Right now we're running skype over NDI into OBS but it's giving us very poor performance after the third NDI stream and only one video source can be in sync with the audio at any given time. So there's room for improvement. Our next idea is to use Zoom's stream function to go to a place like Restream.io. There are a few downsides to this, but it might be the best way to keep the on-screen talent looking and sounding in sync from multiple remote locations. TLDR How is Luke's video feed being sent/received in the new WAN show setup Does anyone have advice or for "best practices" for building a live stream with multiple remote guests? Thanks!

My company is looking for an of sight place to store our video and editing data. in the last 2 years we've amassed around 25TBs of content but as we expand our workload I would expect this to grow faster. What would LTT or the Ltt community recommend for a terabyte scaled off-sight cloud backup? I know Amazon could be an option but there are so many offerings I wanted to do some research first. Chears, GK

I saw that Linus upgraded the editing workstations with "300%" more RGB", but I can't help but fell he should have gone the full 315% RGB with this little guy.

Update 2: Just did a disk test on my RMA instead of just looking a the files speeds and it's saying 8gb/s Update: After removing the gateway as per @flungo post and rebooting I'm getting 700mb/s across but that's still 10x less than what @jakkuh_t got in his original test. What's also Odd. I did a Ram to Ram test on the same system and got around 2gb/s which would translate into a theoretical 4gb/s as it's using the ram disk for both read and right. But if I'm pushing 4gb/s on the ram how could we ever get 7 down the pipe? So I've got everything set up but I'm only getting 224mb/s Ram Disk is 13.1gb Transfer 12.6gb video file from Comp1 to comp2 with all other networks disabled (for simplicity sake) Results in ~224 MB/s Any idea what the bottleneck would be? Comp 1 is running windows 7 Comp 2 is running windows 10 Both have i7s

For anyone looking for parts. @DaveBG These are the ones I found (I make no claim to the correctness or working order of these parts. Please do your own research to verify) Cable: http://ebay.to/2lfpzxl Network Cards: http://ebay.to/2lHoaBn Link to download the firmware for the card mentioned in the OP : http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_table_ConnectX2IB

I agree! I'm not trying to show these things to my grandmother or pre-teens. But because youtube is open, people will find my streams and I would feel a lot better if I wasn't uploading content that would be offensive to them. I know practically any content will be offensive to someone somewhere (youtube comments would attest to such a fact) but my goal is to provide a place where people would see the latest triple-A titles without concerns about language or content. (I have other ideas for how to censor the visual content.) Regardless of the reason or specifics on implementation and effectiveness, I'm looking for some way to bleep language before it hits the live stream.

I know that the voice recognition is very unlikely but you have to have an ideal to shoot for. I'm not so much worried about my own swearing but swearing in the game itself. Division and watchdogs 2 use what some would consider highly offensive language on a normal basis but there also probably worth playing so I want to find some sort of solution.

Hey LTT community, I'm looking at starting a live stream but I want to try and keep it friendly to younger audiences and my grandma; that kind of thing. To that end, I'm looking for some way to censor cursing and strong language from video games on the fly. Optimally An automatic word recognition solution would be epic. But more practically a macro I can tie to one of my mouse keys to bleep the audio in a buffered delay would also work. I know that standard news censor work by live editing the buffer between the recording and the broadcast using fancy external boxes and whatnot but I'm looking for a software solution that would work with Xplit or OBS or independently of them. Any ideas?

I think the one that finally worked was from Drivermax the will want to install the utility but I don't think it was necessary as the driver was available from their website. Good luck with this. I had to downgrade to windows 7 to get it going and even then transfer speeds were 400mbs one way and 700mbs the other. I think it had something to do with CPU packet prioritization but I'm not sure. I've put the project aside for now and we have since made other storage solutions that don't require 10gb a second. (basically, we just have external HDD docking bays and use those to transfer and mirror files between computers. It's not ideal but we only have two editors and it's working so far. #LikeTheOldLInusDays. at least I don't store my backups in the bathroom like Linus did. #OneStepUpRight? Hope you get yours up and running!

Update on potential problems with the current 1070 from EVGA catching fire... http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-1070-evga-cards-dying/ and http://hothardware.com/news/evga-nvidia-gtx-1080-1070-cards-allegedly-dying-in-blaze-of-glory