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Post by ForRealTho on Feb 26, 2023 11:49:19 GMT -5
Also I think its time to retire VideoPad and upgrade to a legit video editing program that the pros use. I thought the culprit was I was running the 32-bit version of VideoPad. Upgrading to 64-bit helped but still it keeps chugging and taking forever to make previews. My PC isn't god tier but its a 2020 CPU with 8 core and 16 threads, 32 gigs of RAM, and an NVME SSD. Its not like I'm trying to edit video on a Core2Duo with a spinning disk and 4 gigs of RAM. It should run as bad as it is.
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 6, 2023 0:28:01 GMT -5
I've been filming a ton with my GoPro and its got me considering getting a 4 tb SSD. I thought I would never do that, but I have like 150 gigs of video to sort through taking up space. Having a 4 tb SSD would really help. How do you film with a GoPro? I got into using ND filters to capture natural motion blur and filming in the flat profile to capture more dynamic range and doing the color grading in post (I mainly just use pre-made LUTs). This gives a much better end result than just selecting your resolution and pressing record (make sure to use the high bitrate setting too). But 4TB is total n00b, I had to get a 12TB just for my drone footage.  |
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 6, 2023 8:46:59 GMT -5
How do you film with a GoPro? I got into using ND filters to capture natural motion blur and filming in the flat profile to capture more dynamic range and doing the color grading in post (I mainly just use pre-made LUTs). This gives a much better end result than just selecting your resolution and pressing record (make sure to use the high bitrate setting too). But 4TB is total n00b, I had to get a 12TB just for my drone footage. I just use the official GoPro chest mount and I have settled on 4k30fps, 60fps is excessive in file size and nobody is going to bother to hit the little gear and set it to 60. I have it set to the highest quality settings I can in various guides on GoPros. I've been using the flat color profile as it doesn't pop as much but it gets more details. I haven't got into color grading yet. I'm fully converted to using DaVinci Resolve, VideoPad is neigh unusable with multiple large 4k video files. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 8, 2023 11:18:19 GMT -5
But 4TB is total n00b, I had to get a 12TB just for my drone footage. I haven't gone that crazy yet. My editing machine Macbook Air M1 only has a 256 SSD, you cannot change the SSD on the new Macs. Instead I got an external NVME SSD caddy: www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Type-C-Tool-Free-Enclosure-EC-SNVE/dp/B08RVC6F9Y/I also got 1tb Samsung 980 SSD, those have a bug going around but I got one with a brand new firmware that fixes that. From now on I am going to do all of my DaVinci Resolve projects on the external drive. Maybe 1tb was too low but we shall see. I went through and deleted all of the footage from old rides I don't care about anymore. |
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 8, 2023 13:07:00 GMT -5
If you start diving into color grading/using LUTs you'll definitely want to use ND filters with locked shutter and exposure. Nothing ruins color grading than automatic exposure that keeps changing. A good all around LUT that I use on the GoPro is from Dronesupremacy but I couldn't just find their GoPro LUT anymore. It was only like $8 and is only like 100kb in size. I've bought more expensive LUTs from the likes of Johnny FPV but didn't like them at all - price doesn't seem to have much of any correlation with quality when it comes to paid for LUTs. But you definitely want a consistent and manually set exposure and that will require a ND filter - sometimes I do let it adjust between 100 and 400 ISO max but the less exposure changing the better for color grading.
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 14, 2023 13:28:12 GMT -5
I've been thinking of getting one of the 4090 laptops that just dropped. The one I am looking at is 2560x1600, that is 16:10. I haven't used 16:10 since I was using a 1440x900 LCD waaay back in 2007. I guess it would take a while to get used to the black bars
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 22, 2023 8:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 23, 2023 20:57:02 GMT -5
The price of large SSDs still sucks ass.... Wake me up when you can get 20TB SSDs for under $500... |
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Post by Babel-17 on Mar 24, 2023 2:25:25 GMT -5
The price of large SSDs still sucks ass.... Wake me up when you can get 20TB SSDs for under $500...
The regular SATA SSDs have had their prices cave a decent amount recently. 4TB Crucial MX500 for around 220 bucks came close to breaking my resolve to not buy more drives until I buy a new build.
tinyurl.com/44uyue8w
The board hated my link to Tom's so I tinyurled it.
A five year old design, but SATA remained stagnant, and the price is now just half of what Tom's was hailing as being a good reduction from initial pricing.
If they manage to halve the price again per TB, and introduce 8TB versions of this SATA drive, my resolve could go out the window. Though I'm guessing that level of price per TB is more something to hope for coming about down the road, than a dependable expectation.
Edit: I've had the 2TB one for a long time now, though mostly for cold storage and video games, no hard thrashing of it. It's TLC, so it has good endurance, at least when compared to QLC ones, or those lacking in a proper ram cache. Though I have three old SSDs that use MLC, and their endurance has been amazing. Granted though they don't get thrashed either.
But since even my TLC based Crucial is still at 97% life, I can't justify making an issue over it, especially since the only drive I heard of that still uses MLC is considered to be a Pro version, and the price is a lot more than double the regular ones, IIRC. Plus I've read that the new expectation is that the life expectancy of SSDs is in practice a lot longer than what ones drive software indicates.
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 25, 2023 21:51:19 GMT -5
Yea I'll keep waiting. When I got my first 40GB drive it was $250...the last drive that I bought was 12TB and cost $167 as an external in which I shucked into an internal drive. I'm not going to pay a billion dollars for a tiny ass useless SSD anymore until they get large and in charge for a 1/10th the price. What good is a puny 2TB drive when I could fill that in a few weeks of 4k filming and editing...useless waste of space.
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 28, 2023 13:19:39 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Apr 15, 2023 15:13:35 GMT -5
Just got a new battery backup unit and installed it, was using an APC 1080va 600w one before but it was just barely sufficient for my PC and 2 monitors. The new one is a Cyberpower 1500va 900w, should be much better. Only thing is I had to uninstall the APC software to make way for the Cyberpower software, just hope this Cyberpower one is as reliable and trustworthy as the APC it replaced.
*edit* Kinda liked the APC software better. Was older looking and less user-friendly than Cyberpower's software, but one thing I noticed is the former sets the battery replacement date, so it knows when to notify to replace it (UPS batteries are supposed to be replaced every 3 years). Maybe it does keep track of it but I'm gonna write it down just in case.
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Post by Emig5m on Apr 15, 2023 19:41:03 GMT -5
Why not just build a proper tower man? Towers are so much easier and cheaper to do incremental upgrades on after the initial investment and of course easier to repair when/if a part fails and fuck those tiny ass displays. When you have a 42" Oled on your desktop there's no going back. Towers run quieter and pack more torque and won't overheat and stress out as easy. The only way that I would get a high end lappy is if I was on the road a lot and traveling... |
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 16, 2023 14:39:29 GMT -5
I like laptops.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 16, 2023 14:41:17 GMT -5
Why not just build a proper tower man? Towers are so much easier and cheaper to do incremental upgrades on after the initial investment and of course easier to repair when/if a part fails and fuck those tiny ass displays. When you have a 42" Oled on your desktop there's no going back. Towers run quieter and pack more torque and won't overheat and stress out as easy. The only way that I would get a high end lappy is if I was on the road a lot and traveling... One big thing is I like playing games laying in bed. Its an awesome experience. Playing a horror game with your laptop in your lap screen in your face. In addition to the fact that I like laptops. |
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Post by Babel-17 on Apr 16, 2023 22:02:06 GMT -5
Obligatory reply of "I like lap dances". lol |
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Post by Babel-17 on Apr 16, 2023 22:13:17 GMT -5
Just got a new battery backup unit and installed it, was using an APC 1080va 600w one before but it was just barely sufficient for my PC and 2 monitors. The new one is a Cyberpower 1500va 900w, should be much better. Only thing is I had to uninstall the APC software to make way for the Cyberpower software, just hope this Cyberpower one is as reliable and trustworthy as the APC it replaced. *edit* Kinda liked the APC software better. Was older looking and less user-friendly than Cyberpower's software, but one thing I noticed is the former sets the battery replacement date, so it knows when to notify to replace it (UPS batteries are supposed to be replaced every 3 years). Maybe it does keep track of it but I'm gonna write it down just in case. I have the Cyberpower 600 watt one. Btw, HWiNFO64 has the module to monitor your UPS alongside the Cyberpower PowerPanel software. You can use both, even at the same time. What's good about HWiNFO64 is that it can record the average of power use, and show you your high and low marks. Kind of neat to see what a game sucked down (I reset the recorder just before starting a game, or benchmarking), though Afterburner can tell you what your CPU and GPU used, and with a graph. HWiNFO64 can also give you more info on your GPU, like what total board power, and your GPU and memory hotspot temps.
I recently learned that because HWiNFO64 keeps polling your drives, you should either get into it's settings to reduce the polling frequency, not use it all the time, or accept it's aging your system a tad faster than it would otherwise.
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Post by Coolverine on Apr 17, 2023 1:27:52 GMT -5
Just got a new battery backup unit and installed it, was using an APC 1080va 600w one before but it was just barely sufficient for my PC and 2 monitors. The new one is a Cyberpower 1500va 900w, should be much better. Only thing is I had to uninstall the APC software to make way for the Cyberpower software, just hope this Cyberpower one is as reliable and trustworthy as the APC it replaced. *edit* Kinda liked the APC software better. Was older looking and less user-friendly than Cyberpower's software, but one thing I noticed is the former sets the battery replacement date, so it knows when to notify to replace it (UPS batteries are supposed to be replaced every 3 years). Maybe it does keep track of it but I'm gonna write it down just in case. I have the Cyberpower 600 watt one. Btw, HWiNFO64 has the module to monitor your UPS alongside the Cyberpower PowerPanel software. You can use both, even at the same time. What's good about HWiNFO64 is that it can record the average of power use, and show you your high and low marks. Kind of neat to see what a game sucked down (I reset the recorder just before starting a game, or benchmarking), though Afterburner can tell you what your CPU and GPU used, and with a graph. HWiNFO64 can also give you more info on your GPU, like what total board power, and your GPU and memory hotspot temps.
I recently learned that because HWiNFO64 keeps polling your drives, you should either get into it's settings to reduce the polling frequency, not use it all the time, or accept it's aging your system a tad faster than it would otherwise.
Good to know, maybe I'll check it out. I know when I fire up very demanding games I've seen this PC + both monitors on use up 580+ watts, it was constantly warning me about getting near maxing out should it kick over to battery power. Was time to replace it anyway, heard you're supposed to replace the whole unit every 5 years but that one was going on 7 years, replaced the batteries in it at least twice. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 17, 2023 8:47:12 GMT -5
I never got an APC but when I was finishing college power conditioners were all the rage in audiophile circles, these days people don't talk about them much. I spent $150 on a nice power conditioner at a local store. Still going strong like 17 years later. Its basically a power strip with ridiculous amounts of filtering for dirty power.
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Post by Babel-17 on Apr 17, 2023 11:40:00 GMT -5
Batteries are easy to replace, I found out when Cyberpower was very cool about free shipping me a RMA replacement (I didn't have to ship back the defective unit) of one that went bad early on in the warranty period. Amazon has decent prices.
The main drag on batteries is when they have to kick in due to power outages/crappy voltages (dirty power). Without outages the battery is always bypassed. I guess if I ever spring for a yooge UPS I might try to score one of those sine wave versions on sale. When not on sale they come at a fairly steep premium. My power supplies have never complained, but still, nice to have I guess.
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Post by sj on Apr 17, 2023 14:29:46 GMT -5
Batteries are easy to replace, I found out when Cyberpower was very cool about free shipping me a RMA replacement (I didn't have to ship back the defective unit) of one that went bad early on in the warranty period. Amazon has decent prices. The main drag on batteries is when they have to kick in due to power outages/crappy voltages (dirty power). Without outages the battery is always bypassed. I guess if I ever spring for a yooge UPS I might try to score one of those sine wave versions on sale. When not on sale they come at a fairly steep premium. My power supplies have never complained, but still, nice to have I guess. I did that years ago and they sent me a refurbished one that didn't last a month, if that. I kind of gave up on UPS's at that point and made the switch to laptops. |
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Post by Coolverine on Apr 17, 2023 14:39:40 GMT -5
From the sounds of it, maybe APC is better than Cyberpower. Guess I'll find out in the future.
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Post by Emig5m on Apr 18, 2023 19:06:32 GMT -5
Why not just build a proper tower man? Towers are so much easier and cheaper to do incremental upgrades on after the initial investment and of course easier to repair when/if a part fails and fuck those tiny ass displays. When you have a 42" Oled on your desktop there's no going back. Towers run quieter and pack more torque and won't overheat and stress out as easy. The only way that I would get a high end lappy is if I was on the road a lot and traveling... One big thing is I like playing games laying in bed. Its an awesome experience. Playing a horror game with your laptop in your lap screen in your face. In addition to the fact that I like laptops. Just FAP on a Tablet....  |
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 20, 2023 10:06:34 GMT -5
So I have repasted my laptop twice but still getting some temperature issues. My laptop is 3 years old at this point. One thing I forgot is I haven't replaced the thermal pads. The ones from the factory are old and cracked now. Ordered some new thermal pads, and I ordered more liquid metal thermal compound. When it comes in I am going to repast everything for a 3rd time. Considering getting this stuff. Linus Tech Tips did a video on it. If it really is one application and you forget it I don't mind it smearing goop all over my laptop. If it keeps temps down who gives a fuck? Not like I have a window to my laptops motherboard: www.amazon.com/viscous-thermal-replacement-60g-Aspire/dp/B00K04D3UK |
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 20, 2023 10:12:39 GMT -5
Fuck it. I ordered the K5 stuff. I figured might as well do it right the first time. So when the liquid metal and K5 gets here gonna tear everything apart and clean it very well with rubbing alcohol, then put regular thermal compound on the GPU, liquid metal on the CPU, and everywhere the thermal pads were going to put the K5.
Hopefully that will solve any temp issues I have till I upgrade. I don't like thermal pads at all, they just seem really ghetto too me then every thermal pad has a different thickness.
Someone in the Amazon reviews said they put the k5 on their router because their router was getting up to 100c+ because of shitty thermal pads and their internet speed went up.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 28, 2023 22:34:45 GMT -5
So for the final time ever (I hope), I repasted my laptop. The liquid metal looks fine so rather then wipe it off I just added a tiny bit more too it. Never redid the thermal pads so I bought that K5 stuff and some pricey thermal pads. Completely wiped down the GPU and surrounding area, cleaned it off with sandpaper, then for the CPU side I cleaned off all the thermal pads. I put thermal pads on the CPU side and the K5 on the GPU side, then put Pk-3 on the GPU itself. Only got one picture:  So far it appears to be running cooler but not a massive difference. Needs a few days to "cure" |
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Post by Cop on May 25, 2023 12:49:18 GMT -5
Y HELO THAR! Guess what I'm posting from? Did you guess a new PC because then you were right. I finally did it, at least 5 years overdue, but I did it and I stuck to what I kinda wanted to do because I couldn't be bothered anymore actually going to a store and pick out components, so I opted for a brand PC (from Amazon.de) It is a Lenovo Legion Tower 7i, with an Intel i7 and an nVidia Geforce RTX 3080 and all the LED-lights in existence... Didn't spend too long picking it out, came across it, liked it, bought it. Next up, mouse and keyboard because I'm not retiring the old workhorse just yet and that mouse is also already over 10 years old and the stuff they shipped with it is just too basic (and also a german qwertz layout, but I knew that)  |
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Post by sj on May 25, 2023 13:41:29 GMT -5
Congrats!
Prebuilt seems to be the way to go these days. I looked into a couple of parts builds late last year and it's pretty much that the gpu prices bring the total price of a build at or over prebuilt systems.
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Post by ForRealTho on May 25, 2023 13:46:26 GMT -5
Y HELO THAR! Guess what I'm posting from? Did you guess a new PC because then you were right. I finally did it, at least 5 years overdue, but I did it and I stuck to what I kinda wanted to do because I couldn't be bothered anymore actually going to a store and pick out components, so I opted for a brand PC (from Amazon.de) I've debating just getting a prebuilt PC myself. Still haven't got around too it. My laptop works just fine. |
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Post by Babel-17 on May 25, 2023 21:13:38 GMT -5
Excellent setup, you're ready for anything.
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