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Hi there,
I have to switch from Final Cut to Premiere Pro so I can collaborate better with my co-worker.
Since I'm not really experienced with PP I need some advice regarding the ideal setup of the drives and so on.
This is what I'm working with:
i7-6700K @4.0 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB
Samsung 950 Pro 512GB (M.2 NVME)
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB SSD
Crucial 64GB Kit (16GBx4) DDR4 2133 MT/s
I installed Windows 10 and all the apps on the slower SanDisk SSD (C:). In the Premiere Preferences under Media Cache I selected the faster NVME drive (D:) for the Media Cache Files and the Media Cache Database. I also selected the "Automatically delete cache files older than:" and set it to 30 days.
When I start a project, I put all the raw footage and project files to the faster D: drive.
The available RAM for Premiere Pro was set to 40GB with about 22GB reserved for other applications.
Does that look ok to you and are there settings I forgot to tweak?
The footage consists of 4k material shot with the Sony A7RII and DJI Phantom 4 Pro, each with the highest bitrate. Would you recommend editing natively or to transcode or use a proxy format?
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Try natively. Your Sony can film at several different codecs but for instance I shoot XAVC-S an edit it easily on many 3-year old laptop with 4-cores and slower speed. With that great setup you should have no problems with it. For your DJI it might have a long GOP structure which is very CPU intensive and would require testing
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Thanks for your answer, Bill. I will try natively then and see how that goes.
In terms of software setup and drive allocation, do you see room for improvement?
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Drive allocation is ideal
Just make sure you tune your system to eliminate unnecessary processes and also on those SSD's turn off indexing. I typically have about 70 processes