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BTGBullseye

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  1. I would definitely recommend starting by getting at least a pair of SSDs. (1 for reading the original footage from, and the other for writing the edited video to) DO NOT get TLC based SSDs. The best for this usage scenario would be Synchronous MLC, (usually about 25-50% extra on the pricetag over Asynchronous) but Asynchronous MLC should be fine. (the most common consumer NAND type) If you want to go for the absolute best, get SLC, and pay between 10x & 20x for the same storage space. (if you can even find the stuff, it's rather rare nowadays) Also, I highly recommend the Mushkin brand. (they have a long history of extremely high reliability memory and SSD products, and have some of the best quality control in the world)

     

    After that, I would actually suggest looking into whether or not the software you're using is capable of utilizing your GPU's hardware transcoding capabilities, and if it doesn't, look into getting a program that does. (this can reduce a 2 hour conversion down to as little as 30 minutes in some situations, if you have a decent dedicated GPU) The best can use both the GPU and CPU at the same time. (there are also free audio transcoding programs out there that can use this, and usually halves [or better] the time required for conversion of audio)

     

    Next, I would recommend switching to an Intel platform, simply because you can get native DDR4 support, and overall much better performance on average. Go for 5th gen processors though, not the 4th gen that you were considering. (the 5th gen has some small updates to the commands it uses, which improve video processing significantly)

     

    If you really want to get the best video editing rig possible, you'll need to tell me your budget, and then I can make a theoretical build for you.

  2. I have a question, if I wanted to upgrade from my FX-8320 what would be the most ideal CPU to upgrade to?

    The question is so incredibly vague as to leave me with no possible answer. It may not seem vague to you, but I need a LOT more information than just what CPU you're moving away from to determine what is an ideal CPU for your needs and means.

     

    The i5 4690K looks pretty good and there's appears to be little benefit from getting an i7 4770k or an i7 4790k.

    The difference is around a 95% performance increase on multithreaded processing. (the i7's are essentially hyperthreaded versions of the i5)

     

    Would you mind telling what you intend to do with your system, and what your budget is? (that way I can give you an appropriate answer)

  3. Starcraft 2 vs any AI is incredibly easy... Just build defensively until you can steamroll their base. (quick strikes are only useful against the lower difficulty AIs)

     

    The original Starcraft has a mod available for the AI that takes it out to the 'almost cheating' levels of difficulty, you might want to give that a try sometime.

  4. Don't be afraid to ask questions or write whole paragraphs if that's what you're after. That's what you'll have to do that if you want a serious discussion otherwise short and tangential questions will be met with short and tangential answers.

    Also, don't be afraid to use capitalization, and proper grammar... They won't get you made fun of here.

  5. Surreal is pretty common for most religious art, I agree... But then again, most of what's being dealt with in the art tends to be 'surreal'. (who wouldn't think that crucifying someone after beating him almost to death just because a crowd was paid off by a couple assholes wasn't surreal?)

  6. So you got around to posting them :D Was a trip you organized yourself or did you go as part of a youth club or something? I have a mild interest in crucifixion art and I'm curious to know which church this sculpture is housed in, and who created it. Any help you could offer BTG would be appreciated.

    It was in a church that was converted to a shrine dedicated to St. John Paul II in Poland... Unfortunately, I never did get the name of the place memorized.

     

    No, I was not solo, this was a part of the Neocatechumenal Way, (don't bother looking it up online, the internet doesn't know shit about it; it's basically a return to doing many things the way the early Christians did, back when it was illegal to be a Christian almost everywhere) and there were 300 people from Colorado in my group.

     

    You could just faintly see the emaciated victims and the SS guards just by looking at the empty spaces of the camp, like you were momentarily brought back in time. It adds to the eeriness of the place.

    You saw the picture with the pond and the 4 gravestones in front? That pond still holds some of the ashes of the people that died there. Ashes used to cover the entire place like a thick snow. And that trench full of stagnant water... That was where they piled the bodies before incineration.

  7. I don't recall his name.

     

    He wasn't teaching highschool, he was doing a small 'class' for local Catholic teens while he was in the area, (I can't remember why he was there) so I joined in. He even had an interesting experience with an accidental exorcism:

     

    He and a priest friend were walking down the street in (I think) Rome, when they passed a music store that had a lot of decidedly satanic cover art plastered up in the windows. The priest, without thinking, said a prayer to get rid of the demons of the place, and they both continued on to their destination, a restaurant. When the waitress was in the process of serving the apologist, her hand shot out to the pitcher of water behind her, and upturned it over the priest's head. She didn't have any control of it. There are consequences for exorcising when you weren't invited to.

     

    When we met for the 'class', it was always outside in a park, and we always seemed to find a really nice shaded area with comfortable seating. (hard to do in central Phoenix area)

  8. I wish age advancement (like Spore and Age of Empires) in strategy games was not just a checklist of resources, researched tech and abilities, time passing, etc and more a complex thing that let you tailor and gradually change your civilization to a more unique thing, rather than just shunting it into the next preset era. Maybe I should play more recent strategy games.

    Give Age of Mythology a try.

  9. Then again, I was also homeschooled from the end of 3rd grade... Got old college books for learning stuff. That was quite the fun learning method. (self teaching) It was in a Catholic home, so I still got a lot of the Catholic teachings. (and even for a year in highschool got a nice course with one of the world's top Catholic apologists, that was really fun)

  10. This one's for BTG (If you've studied in a Catholic school before): What's it like in the US? Just wanna know how it compares to Catholic schools in the Philippines.

    I only got Catholic school up to the 1st grade... I was considered the 'bully' there because I refused to share, usually with teeth and fingernails. For those 2 years, it was almost exactly like all other schools, just without the constant pushing of 'evolution theory is actually fact, so dinosaurs are millions/billions of years old' as soon as a child can understand that dinos are awesome.

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