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Building a Lightroom PC

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Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by vondur »

PStamatiou wrote: post #7
ranqet wrote: post #5

So, the main reason he switched to a Windows machine was to use the latest/fastest hardware with Adobe Lightroom and Premiere, but then he goes on to say the Lightroom and Premiere don’t take advantage of many core CPUs, the fastest GPUs, fastest SSDs, etc... And Windows is fine after tweaking and adjusting dozens of settings. I’ll just stick with a Mac.

Premiere Pro definitely takes advantage of GPU and CPU very efficiently. Lightroom does not - which is why instead of going for some 18 core i9 7980XE build where it has more cores but a much lower clock per core, i opted for just 6 cores but with a very high clock.

I don't think that Premier does really take advantage of video cards. I saw a video where they had switched a really old GTX 660 vs a 1080ti and the render time was not changed between them.

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by shakna »

gt_ wrote: post #6

The first item in the ‘Tweaking Windows’ section is Disable User Account Control . Can someone share a clear explanation of what this means and the nature of the risks involved?

Disabled the administrative confirmation popup e.g. [0]. Kinda like Windows' weaker version of sudo.

When UAC is disabled, anything can run as administrative, but without confirmation or any real sign that it is, so a bit of a risk. Though not quite on the level of running Mac or Linux as root (Windows has another higher level priority, System), it is close to it.

IIRC it also disables some security features of Edge, if you use that. It might also disable some security features in Office, which is a bit more of a concern.

[0] http://images.ntwind.com/winsnap3/uac-unsigned.png

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by PStamatiou »

vondur wrote: post #11
PStamatiou wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Premiere Pro definitely takes advantage of GPU and CPU very efficiently. Lightroom does not - which is why instead of going for some 18 core i9 7980XE build where it has more cores but a much lower clock per core, i opted for just 6 cores but with a very high clock.

I don't think that Premier does really take advantage of video cards. I saw a video where they had switched a really old GTX 660 vs a 1080ti and the render time was not changed between them.

I did a bench of the Premiere Pro h264 benchmark ("PPBM") with CUDA acceleration and without (software): the difference was 7m 4sec without GPU and 48 seconds with GPU.

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by [deleted] »

th0ma5 wrote: post #8

Step 1. Be wealthy :P I am always enamored with the simplicity of one's living space being directly proportional to wealth. I try hard to not have much stuff, but my living options are seemingly always going to be working class style places with pretty much the antithesis of what is apparent in this photo. Of course the camera lies, and I shouldn't compare my insides to some else's outsides. There's probably a new pu…

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Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by Arn_Thor »

A lot of the photos are great! And a lot of them..meh. Which is fine! I'm no star shooter, and far be it from me to judge someone wanting to show off their holiday. But he's spent an inordinate amount of time editing quite a bit of photos that surely could be left on the hard drive, or simply given a batch auto-touch-up by Lightroom in a matter of hours. And it's even stranger that the hobby would drive him to such a monumental and costly upgrade.

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by kylec »

th0ma5 wrote: post #8

Step 1. Be wealthy :P I am always enamored with the simplicity of one's living space being directly proportional to wealth. I try hard to not have much stuff, but my living options are seemingly always going to be working class style places with pretty much the antithesis of what is apparent in this photo. Of course the camera lies, and I shouldn't compare my insides to some else's outsides. There's probably a new pu…

It's easy to get rid of stuff if it's no big deal to just buy it again. Less well-off people don't have that luxury.

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by ranqet »

nitrogen wrote: post #9
ranqet wrote: post #5

So, the main reason he switched to a Windows machine was to use the latest/fastest hardware with Adobe Lightroom and Premiere, but then he goes on to say the Lightroom and Premiere don’t take advantage of many core CPUs, the fastest GPUs, fastest SSDs, etc... And Windows is fine after tweaking and adjusting dozens of settings. I’ll just stick with a Mac.

And Windows is fine after tweaking and adjusting dozens of settings. MacOS or Linux also require tweaking to be useful for most people.

I probably flip several settings to make macOS liveable for myself. I’d have to do all the adjustments Paul discussed and probably more to make Windows liveable.

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by 07d046 »

I can't imagine spending $6000 on a computer for editing photos and then saying "It also means I don't plan to buy and meticulously use a color calibration device". My computer might not be half as fast, but at least I know my blues are the shade of blue I think they are.

Re: Building a Lightroom PC

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Post by tlrobinson »

th0ma5 wrote: post #8

Step 1. Be wealthy :P I am always enamored with the simplicity of one's living space being directly proportional to wealth. I try hard to not have much stuff, but my living options are seemingly always going to be working class style places with pretty much the antithesis of what is apparent in this photo. Of course the camera lies, and I shouldn't compare my insides to some else's outsides. There's probably a new pu…

"I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can't afford a front yard full of old cars."

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

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