@Wolfgang S.

I use UHD and HD media from my Sony RX10-IV camera. No HDR here. I never get to see UHD in preview.*

* I just replaced a Sony UHD TV from the family room. That could change.

For UHD, I think it would be a good idea to apply an UHD monitor. Good if you change that.

Does the resolution matter so much? Is it to get sharpening or other details right?

I also have a high-end 1440P SDR monitor that I use for editing and output videos mostly as HD but sometimes UHD.

A bit off-topic, but it relates to my monitor(s) choice for new builds.

All my delivery is for YouTube. No HDR(at least for now). I have two old Dell Ultrasharp 1900x1600 monitors. For YT, the color grading is very subjective. I'm one of a small minority of PG pilots who shoot with the GoPro in "flat" mode, (instead of the default horribly saturated and contrasty modes with horribly crushed blacks right out of the camera) and add a touch of contrast and saturation in post. I arrived at my color grading settings by trial and error, tweaking, uploading and watching on various devices until I got something that I liked. YT looks very different on my big OLED TV vs my Samsung S22 Ultra vs computer monitors. And not even going into horrible ways YT messes with the video levels, crushing blacks, etc.

Although scopes are fun, years ago I settled on some color correction presets that result in the videos looking close to what my brain remembered about the day. In practical terms, it means rendering the output slightly washed out, because right now YT seems to add saturation and contrast. This might change - it has changed a lot since 2008 when I created my first channel.

PG pilots mostly watch videos on phones. Although I don't mind followers, I mostly shoot, end and render for me, for watching 2160p 60fps on my big TV. When the weather is unflyable, a good way to scratch the itch of Sky-crack addiction is to watch PG porn, so I watch a lot of my own content and hope for better flying conditions soon.

So, at least for me, a super-accurate monitor is not a priority.

Steve

On a lighter note. Performance of the i9-13900K.

How is your H115i handling the cooling task? What kind of CPU temps are you seeing during renders? I'm a little worried my H115i won't be able to keep up with the i9-14900K.

Just limit wattage in bios if the temps are too high with CPU-only renders. (First I'd do stress testing with Intel Extreme Tuning and make sure the system is stable).

For outputting video make sure it's 16-235. VEGAS in 8-bit full or 32-bit full mode should render this by default and match YouTube closely on the same monitor. I'd calibrate the monitor using a hardware tool (I have an i1Display Pro) to get the gamma and colors right.

@stevecrye said:

"How is your H115i handling the cooling task?"

It's doing just fine. I don't even have the Corsair software loaded in this system image because I control for Core Temp in UEFI.

"What kind of CPU temps are you seeing during renders?"

I'm seeing the exact CPU temps that I control for in UEFI.

When I built the system, I loaded XTU and all the measurement tools as shown in this post.*

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/system-upgrade-2023--137456/?page=3#ca877137

* I've since raised the control point to 70 degrees C.

"I'm a little worried my H115i won't be able to keep up with the i9-14900K."

It might not if you don't take active measures to limit total power at the individual core level because of the thermal resistance of the top of the CPU. Since I have a decent thermal control mechanism set in UEFI, I don't worry about it. Or check, for that matter.

Hi,

The ProArt Z790, i9-14900K, 64GB DDR5 and new H115i have arrived. Earlier in the week I successfully upgraded my system to Windows 11 22H2. I already have iCUE installed, but I will also set those temp limits in UEFI.

Now all that needs to be done prior to the surgery is to download the latest BIOS for the motherboard to a USB flash drive, so I'll be ready to do the BIOS flashback to make sure that I've got a new enough version to support the i9-14900K.

Wish me luck!

Steve

Take pictures and save incremental system images.

https://www.macrium.com/products/home

Does the resolution matter so much? Is it to get sharpening or other details right?

I also have a high-end 1440P SDR monitor that I use for editing and output videos mostly as HD but sometimes UHD.

If one uses an HD monitor for UHD, there is always the danger to miss that something will not be sharp. My experience at least.

If one uses an HD monitor for UHD, there is always the danger to miss that something will not be sharp. 

Ditto with audio. I've long have had to sound design 5.1 surround sound in Vegas Pro but using stereo output from VP to an amp to do it - Ugh!

At least with working with UHD video with an UHD monitor,where the destination will be HD BD (my decade old JVC projector is only HD - it's nearly time to upgrade), I know that the image I see on the UHD monitor will not be as great in HD BD - but its still a great picture But the advantage in editing UHD for HD is that pan/cropping an image can be zoomed in by as much as 75% and still retain HD resolution.

Hi @john_dennis

The assembly of the upgraded system is complete and I can use it. Still engaged in tweaking, and I've had some problems. I should probably start a new thread for that, I don't want to hijack yours. When I do start the new thread, I'll be sure to put a link to it here in this one so that y'all can find it easier.

I'm trying to find the BIOS settings that you used for limiting the CPU load based on temperature. Can you do me a favor and reply with the pass inside the BIOS to get to those settings? Thanks!

Steve

With some much appreciated hand-holding from @john_dennis , I have a stable, upgraded system and have been running some benchmarks. I am pleased so far, because I have doubled my rendering speed and I think I can go even higher once I finish some tweaking.

As far as benchmarks, the CPU and memory is very fast, scoring in the 99th percentile on PassMark, and two days ago had the highest marks on Cinebench. Overall, my system gets poor scores on Passmark because I'm not running any kind of NVRe M.2 drives. That's something that I'll experiment with later, right now Vegas does not seem to be IO bound so it's not a high priority for me.

The experience has been moderately stressful for me, because it turns out that the Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT that had worked fine in my 2017 system, simply could not be recognized by the new Asus ProArt Creator Wi-Fi motherboard. Finally I gave up, and as a temporary measure installed my good old trusty RX 570 just so I would have a working computer while I returned the Gigabyte GPU to Amazon and ordered a nearly identical one, but ASUS branded. That card arrived today, was immediately detected and after about 4 hours of tweaking I finally had things stable enough to run some benchmarks.

I started the upgrade Friday at noon and it was quite an exhausting 5 day struggle to get to where I am now. It was a good thing the ProArt has integrated graphics because until I realized that the Gigabyte graphics card was not being recognized, at first I thought the motherboard was not completing its power on self test. Finally I dragged a television into the computer room and plugged it directly into the motherboard and then I was able to at least do some troubleshooting and figure out what was going on.

Steve

I planned to upgrade the network link from my edit workstation to my media server to 10 gigabit since before the 2023 hardware refresh. Though the priority was low and the price of 10gb network gear was high in 2023, I completed the task today.

TRENDnet 6-Port 10G Switch, 4 x 2.5G RJ-45 BASE-T Ports, 2 x 10G RJ-45 Ports, 60Gbps Switching Capacity

10G PCIE To RJ45 Marvell AQC113 PCIeX4 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Adapter

At this point, the transfer rate between the two devices appears to be constrained by disk speed and possibly system speed of the media server.

Bulk transfer of files from Media Server to Z790

Bulk transfer of files from Z790 to the Desktop of the Media Server

I know, based on these results, I could have used a Multi-gig 2.5 gb switch and PCIe ethernet adapter, but everything will be upgraded someday. With the switch that I chose:

• I have the potential for a 10 gigabit connection when all other system constraints are removed.
• I used existing wiring that I ran myself.
• I have three 2.5 gb ports left for devices that I add in the future.
• I freed up ports on the gigabit network for other rooms.
• The current i7-3770(k) based media server doesn't support NVMe disks.