Help Martin to spend his dime well!

Martin L wrote on 8/28/2019, 3:42 AM

Let me post this here in a new thread.

I need to get a new machine. My old is 8 years old and it is time to change, of several reasons. The new should work for the next 8 years, or so I hope.

Anyways, this is what I and my PC guy have come up with. It is based on Grazies dosh thread recently and some benchmark tests, as well as the PC-guy's experience. My budget is not huge so I know I can't get the fastest monsta on earth, but it should work well with VP17 and 4 K footage. I welcome all thoughts and suggestions before I go ahead and spend my dimes.

Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2666Mhz CL16 Vengeance LPX (RAM)

Powercolor Radeon VII 16GB (GPU)

Intel Core i9 9900K 3.6 GHz 16MB (CPU)

MSI Z390-A PRO (Motherboard)

Kingston A2000 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD (system drive to only have the OS, Vegas and other necessary software in)

Samsung 860 QVO 2TB (work storage/where all video footage and projects are stored until project is finished and delivered)

(I have another big storage/backup where I stow away finished projects and delete them from the work storage)

be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W (Power)

be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 (CPU cooler)

Fractal Design Define C (box)

And of course Win 10 Professional

What do you think guys? Grateful for any thoughts.

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Dexcon wrote on 9/12/2019, 5:11 AM

@Martin L ... thank you for posting about your early impressions on you new machine, and I'm really happy for you that it is such an improvement over your previous rig.

Re photo editing, I've been using Corel PaintShop Pro over the years, and am now up to the 2020 release. Though I don't use RAW (my photo needs are rather basic), the info re PaintShop Pro on Corel's website states that PaintShop 2020 has complete RAW and HDR support. Fortunately, the website has an extensive list of the RAW cameras supported:

https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/pages/raw-support/

There is also a 30 days trial period, so that could be useful to check it out. Even better, it's not all that expensive to buy outright, and they do offer good upgrade prices with each new version (so far anyway) which is usually once a year.

FXHome's Imerge Pro may well be worth considering as well.

Marco. wrote on 9/12/2019, 5:26 AM

According to the specs list PaintShop Pro doesn't support CR3 either, so doesn't Imerge Pro.

@Martin L
CR3 support is planned for the Windows version of Affinity Photo (it's already in the Mac version) but no timetable mentioned yet.
Don't know if converting the CR3 files is an option for you. If it is, you could use the free Canon tool "Digital Photo Professional" to convert the CR3 files to a different RAW format.

Martin L wrote on 9/12/2019, 7:23 AM

Re photo editing, I've been using Corel PaintShop Pro over the years, and am now up to the 2020 release. Though I don't use RAW (my photo needs are rather basic), the info re PaintShop Pro on Corel's website states that PaintShop 2020 has complete RAW and HDR support. Fortunately, the website has an extensive list of the RAW cameras supported:

https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/pages/raw-support/

FXHome's Imerge Pro may well be worth considering as well.

Thanks for the tips. Though, as Marco said, neither of them supports CS3 raw format yet.

CR3 support is planned for the Windows version of Affinity Photo (it's already in the Mac version) but no timetable mentioned yet.
Don't know if converting the CR3 files is an option for you. If it is, you could use the free Canon tool "Digital Photo Professional" to convert the CR3 files to a different RAW format.

I might wait a bit to see if Affinity gets support for CS3 files. For now my old Adobe Bridge and PS doesn't support it either. So I use Canon´s Digitial Photo Professional to convert, but that is a tedious process, I don't like it. If Affinity doesn't get it I will have to start subscribing to Adobe Photo Plan which gets me Lightroom and PH for about $10/month. I work about half of my time with video production and the other half as writer/stills photographer, so it's a big part of life.

But the BEST solution was if Magix had such a photo software. l also have Vegas Pro for video, and Magix Samplitude for song writing and music production (a hobby). That would keep all my work within the Magix family.

Thanks for your fine thoughts and input!

Dexcon wrote on 9/12/2019, 8:14 AM

@Martin L … you may have already seen something like this (which is probably from the beginning of the year):

https://www.dslrpundit.com/2019/02/canon-cr3-raw-format-guide.html

... unfortunately, it seems like CR3 support in photo editing softeware is very limited, but it does suggest that converting to DNG is an option. Only FWIW.

Martin L wrote on 9/12/2019, 8:38 AM

@Dexcon I hadn't ead exactly that. Thanks. Something to think about. :)