It means Software Asset Management

@wrx7m said in Video Editing/Production Workstation - Questions:

Does editing 2D HD video require much horsepower by way of the video card?
I would imagine the CPU would be doing the heavy lifting here, is that correct?
Anything else I should consider?

Thanks!

The GPU depends on the codec... but that is mostly used for effects, color correction and rendering.
CPU does not nesserly do heavy lifting.

CUDA cores of the GPU is an important factor, and using a Mercury playback engine supported card.

Also for video editing you will want to edit off local storage, not the network. Network is just too slow unless you are using a very fast Fiber or 10GB Copper network as a good storage array behind it. . a good local raid for scratch disks/projects is a must then manually or automatically back that up to the network.

Workstation Grade isn't just about getting a Xeon CPU my workstation has a Core i7.. Xeons aren't more powerful than desktop CPUs anymore. But you get better quality hardware, and they tend to last longer than normal desktops. Not to mention more upgradable, and bigger/higher quality PSUs. I'd build one or buy a workstation system. Building is becoming less and less popular for video editing though as the cost difference is much closer than it used to be.

I personally do most of my 4k RAW editing on a workstation laptop, with a quadro card, core i7, 64GB ram, 4k 17" LCD, boot PCIe SSD, 1TB editing SSD.

Personally I'd recomend getting a used Sony FS100 or a Panasonic HMC150 used. connecting up HDMI out and sending that over a long HDMI or CAT6 to HDMI system to the TV.

@Dashrender said:

if they have a degree in IT that it would show that at least know something

That shows nothing, and is an SMB way of thinking. We tend to hire people without degrees or only associates degrees/vocational. Our Director of IT has Masters degrees for business management and business information systems.

@hubtechagain said:

OMG Rackspace must be out of business

Definitely their twitter hasn't had a post since Tuesday, and latest reply was 6 min ago. What kind of scam is this?

@Minion-Queen Get plenty of Tylenol or Advil.

We are looking to replace 6-12 SANs. The VAR which is having us look at Dell, EMC, and Nimble options. When they gave us the quote it was for running it at RAID 5. They say that running RAID 6/60 is "old storage technologies" and RAID 5 is the way to go with the newer arrays. (not all flash based only 1-2 SSDs for cache).

I don't think that's true I've given them the facts but they still say RAID 5 is the best option. Is there a consultant we can hire who does not deal sales at all in their company to give us good recommendations?

@Dashrender said:

I completely agree that it proves nothing, but disagree that it's a SMB way of thinking.
Most HR departments put this requirement on their job postings. The HR filters the incoming resumes by those requirements before sending them onto a hiring manager.

Now maybe you have a better system, and you get ALL the resumes directly, but if a company has a real legit HR department, that's unlikely. I say this from my own experience, which is small and limited, so it's biased by my own experience.

That's not true. Only in small companies does HR get involved (in the way of) the hiring process. HR's job is not to select the candidate it's to help the Hiring manager with what they are looking for. Sure they scan for potential legal issues but they don't add degrees. I've seen that in SMBs but, we are a fortune 500 and do not run that way. HR only helps the hiring manager get what they want, the hiring manager has the ultimate say.

@coliver said:

There they are. Still not a fan of how it offsets the conversation to the left side of the screen but I will get used to it.

Yeah it feels to squashed.

I have a Love hate relationship with Mac OS. I like how some of it works, it's unix bits (Though that's also some of it's problem as there's too much pilled on top of it now to make MacOS), the terminal is great. and Font rendering beats most OSes. But, somehow I can't help but feel a bit unorganized on a mac, I can't ever really put my finger on exactly why but I think it's something to do with how finder works vs windows explorer. Anyone else feel this way?

@Breffni-Potter said:

@JasonNM said:

I agree.. But, It's just about getting information to compare. I likely won't be able to get information any other way.

Umm, well you can get the information, free or paid. The vendor will always be biased so you need neutral

I'm very aware of this. I have been a big proponent of getting neutral information in the past on here as well as Spice works (when I had another username)

@scottalanmiller said:

@Draco8573 said:

but the reason i am in college was because I was going to go for mechanical engineering but that didn't work out.

I started in engineering too. Manufacturing Systems (basically Industrial Eng but with a specific focus on big manufacturing) for me, not mechanical. I dropped out after two years, best decision ever. I have had such a wildly better career than my classmates, most of whom went on to Masters and PhD degrees. Their careers are much shorter than mine with much lower earnings and flexibility.

I was an electrical engineering student for a while. Still love it but, heck I get paid a lot more than an EE would.

@BRRABill said:

Anyway, here is the picture:

I see an orange alert light on the dell.

@scottalanmiller said:

Windows users aren't good with change and this is a thirty year backlog

I use both Macs and Windows. And have for a long time but I've always had a file management problem on Macs. I think this is also and issue on macs they don't want to change the OS they've built up, they've taken Unix and thrown so much stuff on top of it that it makes it hard to work.

How is a VPN going to make the client act the same as a windows desktop? We just use RD gateways to expose some of ours.

Some what related: http://mangolassi.it/topic/6527/the-college-conspiracy

@scottalanmiller said:

Does it ever run well?

Does it run on Cloud@Cost?

@RojoLoco said:

I have NEVER been able to wrap my head around why it is (and has been for 2 decades) considered the de facto choice for "professional" audio/video production. I've been multi-tracking on PC since the 90s, never had issues.

It's not as popular now, there used to be times when Mac made sense and you'd be insane to choose windows over it for video or audio work because windows used to suck at font rendering, graphics and audio drivers compared to Macs OSes video drivers and coreAudio. But, now days Adobe software works better on windows, Final Cut Pro 7 went to the consumer grade Final Cut Pro X. and Avid media composer and Avid Pro Tools works better on windows than it does on Mac (not that it works that great on either). Avid even choose to use windows computers for their live audio sound boards, not mac mini's. That shows who they think they work better.

Turn off roaming profiles, and use folder redirection (and offline files if needed). Roaming profiles always have issues.