Where's Rich?

He shot his eye out...

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I'm around. I've had people working outside for the past week or so, rebuilding a rock wall and doing other sundry things that I couldn't be bothered with. I'm also working on a project for a client, although I decided to take a few days off for labor day. I even managed to get a little flying in yesterday. Thanks for asking.

Rich
 
I know this is an old thread, but the topic applies once again. Does anyone know what happened to Rich (@RJM62 )? Is he ok?
 
JOhnH said:
I know this is an old thread, but the topic applies once again. Does anyone know what happened to Rich (@RJM62 )? Is he ok?
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It shows he was last online Sunday, although hasn't posted since November and seems to have removed his profile picture.
 
I'm still alive, reasonably healthy, and not in jail. I'm throwing myself into the work of not dying of boredom.

I've been doing some volunteer work purchasing and delivering food and such to quarantined people and other shut-ins. It's a great way to get around all the restrictions, and I can take a tax deduction for the miles and expenses. I even have papers to show the cops when they ask me for them, which rarely happens out here in the sticks.

I've already gotten all the power equipment in tip-top shape, did all the spring car maintenance, shot a few commie bastard red squirrels, and relocated a copperhead to a more suitable environment than my front steps.

I'm also rebuilding a Rotax in the basement. I'm waiting for some gaskets to come in so I can finish it.

In the meantime, I built a computer purpose-built for video editing. Intel i9 9900K, Z390 chipset, 64GB system RAM, Nvidia 1660 GPU with 6GB video RAM, NVMe system drive, etc...

That's about it. Anything more likely will get the thread locked.

Thanks for asking. I hope all are well.

Rich
 
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Couldn’t quite trust AMD yet @RJM62 ? :)

Some nice silicon coming out of them again, and Intel is slacking off again...
 
denverpilot said:
Couldn’t quite trust AMD yet @RJM62 ? :)

Some nice silicon coming out of them again, and Intel is slacking off again...
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My preferred editing software requires Intel graphics for hardware encoding of everything except HEVC. Other editing software I sometimes use does better with the Nvidia GPU. Hence the i9 CPU plus the Nvidia GPU. I have an HDMI dummy on the Intel video output to fool the software that needs it into using the Intel graphics.

The difference the Intel chip makes to encoding is not trivial. Encoding a 20-minute 1920 x 1080 video to .MP4 using H.264 and VBR < 30M without the Intel GPU took more than a hour. With it, it took seven minutes. But when using H.265, I need the Nvidia card. That's why I chose the configuration I did. It was purpose-designed.

The computer I use for everything else has an AMD Ryzen 5 2600.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
My preferred editing software requires Intel graphics for hardware encoding of everything except HEVC. Other editing software I sometimes use does better with the Nvidia GPU. Hence the i9 CPU plus the Nvidia GPU. I have an HDMI dummy on the Intel video output to fool the software that needs it into using the Intel graphics.

The difference the Intel chip makes to encoding is not trivial. Encoding a 20-minute 1920 x 1080 video to .MP4 using H.264 and VBR < 30M without the Intel GPU took more than a hour. With it, it took seven minutes. But when using H.265, I need the Nvidia card. That's why I chose the configuration I did. It was purpose-designed.

The computer I use for everything else has an AMD Ryzen 5 2600.

Rich
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I gave the post a "like" even though I understood a minuscule part of it.
 
RJM62 said:
I'm still alive, reasonably healthy, and not in jail. I'm throwing myself into the work of not dying of boredom.

I've been doing some volunteer work purchasing and delivering food and such to quarantined people and other shut-ins. It's a great way to get around all the restrictions, and I can take a tax deduction for the miles and expenses. I even have papers to show the cops when they ask me for them, which rarely happens out here in the sticks.

I've already gotten all the power equipment in tip-top shape, did all the spring car maintenance, shot a few commie bastard red squirrels, and relocated a copperhead to a more suitable environment than my front steps.

I'm also rebuilding a Rotax in the basement. I'm waiting for some gaskets to come in so I can finish it.

In the meantime, I built a computer purpose-built for video editing. Intel i9, Z390 chipset, 64GB system RAM, Nvidia 1660 GPU with 6GB video RAM, NVMe system drive, etc...

That's about it. Anything more likely will get the thread locked.

Thanks for asking. I hope all are well.

Rich
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How did your Goodyear tires do this winter? My daughter has the same tires on her car, and she said they had such a wimpy winter in State College that she still doesn't know how well they work in snow.
 
FormerHangie said:
How did your Goodyear tires do this winter? My daughter has the same tires on her car, and she said they had such a wimpy winter in State College that she still doesn't know how well they work in snow.
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It was pretty wimpy here, too. Also, I use studded tires during the worst of the winter; so all the new Goodyears had to contend with was one three-inch snowstorm after I swapped the Hankooks off in early March. That being said, they performed admirably, even coming home up the unplowed hill.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
Here's a more detailed discussion of the reasoning that went into the design of the video-editing computer. I think it's a halfway decent explanation of the process of designing a single-purpose computer. Full disclosure: The page is monetized (Amazon only).

https://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/designing-a-computer-for-video-editing.php

Rich
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Nice setup, how much and what type of video editing are you doing, is this for personal stuff or professional? What software are you using?
 
RJM62 said:
Here's a more detailed discussion of the reasoning that went into the design of the video-editing computer. I think it's a halfway decent explanation of the process of designing a single-purpose computer. Full disclosure: The page is monetized (Amazon only).

https://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/designing-a-computer-for-video-editing.php

Rich
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Nice setup. I think the only trend I see missing is quite a few people using AIO coolers these days, but in the end, big fans work fine too. It’s just a preference thing mostly.
 
PaulS said:
Nice setup, how much and what type of video editing are you doing, is this for personal stuff or professional? What software are you using?
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Thanks.

I mainly edit videos that a particular client's technicians send me of work that they do. If I use the videos, then they get paid for them. I also edit videos for clients who want to make their own commercials, which are usually horrid, but nicely edited.

Increasingly, I'm getting personal videos of weddings and the like, usually from multiple people who attended, that I try to edit into something reasonably coherent. Those obviously aren't coming in right now, which is fine because I don't care for doing them anyway. But when they come from employees of existing clients, I do them.

I also do videos for fun once in a while, and I edit videos for friends and family members. I used to have a Vimeo account with many, many videos; but I closed the account when they ****ed me off by giving me a copyright strike for barely-audible ambient music during part of a video.

Seventy-five percent of the time I use Magix Video Pro X. I also use Adobe Premiere Pro for one client (using an account he pays for because I hate Adobe), as well as Lightworks on occasion. I also use various FOSS editors (KDen live, Shotcut, and a few others) on another machine that runs Linux.

Magic Video Pro X is my go-to for most work, though. It's fast, simple, intuitive, and powerful enough for almost anything I have to do.

Rich
 
denverpilot said:
Nice setup. I think the only trend I see missing is quite a few people using AIO coolers these days, but in the end, big fans work fine too. It’s just a preference thing mostly.
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I thought about it. Water and electronics, though...

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
Thanks.

I mainly edit videos that a particular client's technicians send me of work that they do. If I use the videos, then they get paid for them. I also edit videos for clients who want to make their own commercials, which are usually horrid, but nicely edited.

Increasingly, I'm getting personal videos of weddings and the like, usually from multiple people who attended, that I try to edit into something reasonably coherent. Those obviously aren't coming in right now, which is fine because I don't care for doing them anyway. But when they come from employees of existing clients, I do them.

I also do videos for fun once in a while, and I edit videos for friends and family members. I used to have a Vimeo account with many, many videos; but I closed the account when they ****ed me off by giving me a copyright strike for barely-audible ambient music during part of a video.

Seventy-five percent of the time I use Magix Video Pro X. I also use Adobe Premiere Pro for one client (using an account he pays for because I hate Adobe), as well as Lightworks on occasion. I also use various FOSS editors (KDen live, Shotcut, and a few others) on another machine that runs Linux.

Magic Video Pro X is my go-to for most work, though. It's fast, simple, intuitive, and powerful enough for almost anything I have to do.

Rich
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Thanks for the response Rich, I meant to type how much did the hardware cost. I'm using premier pro and it's working well for me, it's on a laptop, a surface book 2, which was a good system, but Microsoft keeps breaking the damn thing with their updates so I'm thinking about something else.

Edit: Just saw the price, that's a really good deal for what you got. Thanks.
 
The thing about AIO coolers is that their biggest advantage is maintaining a narrower range of temperature control, which isn't very important on a machine that's always running at either idle or 100 percent. Using the fans, the CPU temp has never exceeded ~ 56 degrees C.

If you're going to use fans, use Noctua fans. They're incredible.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
I thought about it. Water and electronics, though...

Rich
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Makes me nervous too but they seem pretty solid these days. Popular anyway.

Kinda cracks me up that it’s back to water cooling like ancient giant computers that took up acres in data centers.

Have seen some that match motherboards where they cool the CPU and the RAM and the SSD all at the same time. I never push hardware so hard I need to cool all of that!

Gamers.... lol.
 
PaulS said:
Thanks for the response Rich, I meant to type how much did the hardware cost. I'm using premier pro and it's working well for me, it's on a laptop, a surface book 2, which was a good system, but Microsoft keeps breaking the damn thing with their updates so I'm thinking about something else.

Edit: Just saw the price, that's a really good deal for what you got. Thanks.
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My pleasure. I shopped around a bit and had a few parts (like the PSU).

I use Win10 Pro and re-image the backup of the system drive before every update. I also have feature updates deferred for 365 days. That seems to work.

Rich
 
I really pushed the G.SKILL RAM because I really believe in it. I've used it in scads of computers, with never a failure or malfunction. It's all I use nowadays when I have a choice. I'm also liking Crucial SSD's a lot. Less-expensive than Samsung, but they benchmark just as well.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
I really pushed the G.SKILL RAM because I really believe in it. I've used it in scads of computers, with never a failure or malfunction. It's all I use nowadays when I have a choice. I'm also liking Crucial SSD's a lot. Less-expensive than Samsung, but they benchmark just as well.

Rich
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My problem with video is storing the raw files, do you keep them or jettison when you are done?
 
PaulS said:
My problem with video is storing the raw files, do you keep them or jettison when you are done?
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It depends on whether I think I'll need them again or not. The ones I know I'll never need again get deleted. The rest get compressed and stored. I have redundant local storage and online backup of the redundant local storage.

Storage, both local and online, is so cheap now that that's really not an issue anymore. An ioSafe NAS is a good disaster-proof local solution that also runs on Synology, so it can sync to practically any online storage location. The bandwidth may raise your ISP's eyebrows, however.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
I've been doing some volunteer work purchasing and delivering food and such to quarantined people and other shut-ins.
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I volunteered for that here in my town. I was told that I am too old therefor I am in the high risk group.....:eek: :lol:
 
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