- Today we're talking about laptops
that are powerful as frick,
and super excited to announce
that this video is sponsored by NVIDIA.
Might of heard of them,
they are the rock stars of GPUs,
also known as graphics cards.
I've actually been a fan for awhile.
All the way back in 2015
I bought a bunch of stocks in NVIDIA
and at the time they were less than 20 bucks.
Best investment of my life,
'cause ever since then they've been crushing it.
This is not financial advice by the way.
You should probably never take money tips from me,
'cause I buy a new camera every single week.
I think I'm about to buy another one right now,
because we are also doing a giveaway on this video.
I started talking to NVIDIA about a month ago,
right after I posted a video where I said
I use my laptop for all my simple,
basic light editing,
but I need a desktop for the heavy duty edits,
and that's when NVIDIA came knocking,
and basically they were like.
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Clearly you've never heard of what a.
I forgot my line.
Clearly you have no idea what radical stuff
we've been working on.
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You haven't experienced the true power
of a laptop and rock and roll without this.
This is the Razer Blade 15, advanced model,
with ultra UHD OLED display,
and best of all it has our
NVIDIA 2080 graphics card.
Sorry about your backdrop, we'll pay for that,
and I regret doing this voice for this bit
'cause I'm definitely going to lose my voice.
So here it is, this is the laptop I've been doing
all my editing on for the last couple of weeks,
and it's been awesome.
Whenever I was shopping for computers,
one of the issues I would always have
is figuring out what exactly do I need
and what don't I need,
and personally all I care about is being able to
get footage shot, downloaded, cut, color graded,
a few effects maybe, rendered out, uploaded,
and nap time.
All that, as fast as possible,
most importantly, that nap part.
But after some long talks
with the super smart people at NVIDIA,
they did a great job breaking it down
and simplifying it for me,
so let me share my knowledge with you now.
They know it can be complicated
'cause they develop all kinds of stuff
for robots, artificial intelligence,
self-driving cars, you name it,
and the needs for everybody
is going to be pretty different.
So for us creators specifically,
they created the NVIDIA Studio line up,
which gives us a very well balanced,
but powerful system that gives us full functionality
of the software we use most,
and out of habit if I'm editing on a laptop,
I go straight to here and I drop the resolution
to pretty much low as it can go.
Now at this resolution,
the picture quality looks pretty blurry,
but at least it doesn't freeze up like this.
Imagine just editing footage that's this choppy
for hour and hours.
It would drive you nuts,
you would want to jump off a cliff.
And I was like, okay, let me edit this
and see how long this will take
before I get infuriated at the choppiness,
and actually I was able to edit the whole thing
in full resolution.
Even the more complex stuff like this,
which is a 4K video with a color grade
and then a few layers
and there's another inserted 4K frame inside of here.
Again, full resolution, playing back two 4K videos
on top of each other, zero dropped frames.
If you see that green dot right there
that means literally every single frame in the video
has been played properly.
This isn't pre-rendered or anything,
this is literally processing the color grade
and overlaying all this stuff just on the fly.
This is great.
I was so sure that at some point I was gunna have to
at least drop it into half resolution,
because even half resolution is fine.
We're recording 4K, so half of that,
you're still pretty close to full HD screen,
so that's not a problem.
But what was really dope is rendering it out.
I rendered out a 12 and a half minute video
in just over 9 minutes with effects and everything.
Which is crazy 'cause it's faster to render out
a 4K video than to watch it back.
I mean that's, yeah.
So what exactly is going under the hood
to make this so powerful.
Well first of all, we have our i7 processor,
which has 6 cores,
and then we also have our GPU,
which is the NVIDIA RTX 2080,
and that has 2,944 cores.
So the way they work, or the microarchitecture,
is how the smart people like to say it,
but basically they work very differently.
The way I like to look at it,
I think of the CPU as like a sports car, right?
And then I look at a GPU like a train.
So, let's say I've got a package about this big,
and I need to deliver it to San Francisco,
right, I'm gunna throw it into the sports car and just--
(car engine revving)
But, let's say you have 2000 boxes
that you have to get over to San Francisco.
That's so many trips, you could only fit 15 at a time,
and you have to go back and forth, back and forth,
opposed to a GPU, or a train.
So, sure, the train is gunna take,
maybe, double the amount of time to get there,
but you can take everything all at once.
So a lot of the time it makes sense
to use your CPU, or sports cars,
to just kind of get there fast,
and sometimes you need to get that freight train
and just load it up and just go do this big ole task.
But really what it takes
to turbo boost my experience
is a good balance between
putting certain tasks to the CPU
and certain tasks to the GPU,
and it's like a perfect little marriage,
when a couple is happy,
this is the most powerful.
So, that's the beauty of the NVIDIA Studio line up,
is that they all have a really well balanced system
that are very well compatible with each other.
It's really over the last 5 to 10 years
where the power of the GPU has really become realized,
and utilized 'cause back then it was all about
having a fast CPU, have some RAM,
have some hard drive space,
and try not to melt the computer along the way,
but now by utilizing some of the tasks to the GPU
it doesn't bottle neck your main processor,
and it just gives us a very fluid experience.
A good example is color grading for Lumetri,
if you think about it,
every time you make an adjustment to a shot,
it's millions of calculations that need to take place
to adjust the millions of pixels, right?
Perfect example of what a GPU is useful for,
so, obviously, we've seen that this is super smooth,
but you can actually turn off the GPU acceleration.
Right now, we're using all this super powered acceleration,
but if we go to software only,
now we're not utilizing the power
that's available to us from the GPU
and this how it used to be.
Remember having to color grade
and you have to render everything,
if I try to play it back, look at this.
Oh my gawd, this is terrible.
This is terrible.
If we didn't have this GPU in here,
this is literally what would we be working with.
So, that's when we have to take it
and drop it to eighth resolution.
Does that even work, at eighth resolution?
This is, oh gawd.
Okay, at eighth, it looks blurry
and it's still skipping a couple of frames here.
Because of how fluid this is,
just working off the straight 4K files
with zero dropped frames.
I don't have to take any extra steps
like making proxies and all that stuff.
I'm a Youtuber.
I just try to get my videos out there as fast as possible.
This is super easy, you just cut the 4K,
render, upload, done.
But let's go into some professional work flows,
I shot some 5K footage on the RED.
Let's drop it in.
I added a little bit of color grading
and it generally, even at full resolution,
this is 5K, 24 frames per second,
it's playing fine.
I added a little Lumetri color grade on here
just to make it look,
and look, see that, zero frames dropped.
But, with this kind of footage
I definitely don't recommend actually using full resolution,
because 5K, that's more pixels
than this display can even show,
if you can even perceive the difference, right?
So, I'd at least go down to half, or even a quarter,
and to me I can't even tell the difference
between a quarter and full resolution,
because of how sharp these RED cameras are.
So, remember this is RED RAW footage
with a color grade applied to it
and it is very seamlessly gliding through it all,
so I love that. How long do you think it will take
to render out 5K RED footage
into 5K ProRes, color graded, 422 HQ.
Sorry if that's a lot of technical words
but I'm really curious.
Time lapse mode, let's go.
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While we wait for this to wrap up,
let's talk about this giveaway real quick.
Canon M6 Mark II, really impressive camera.
That's what my last video was all about.
This is going out to a lucky winner
in the notification squad,
so just drop a comment within the first
10 hours of this video going live
and one of you will get this in the mail.
You'll get some awesome footage with this.
4K, it's super sharp
and if you have graphics card like this
then you'll be able to edit it, no problem.
And it's done.
11 minutes and seven seconds.
We're talking about some heavy, dense professional codecs
and five minutes of a color graded render out in 11 minutes.
The days of waiting hours and hours
for a professional render to get kicked out, it's over.
The file is 37 gigabytes, that it made, but wow.
Now here's some more sample footage out of a ARRI ALEXA,
another super professional camera,
playing back at full resolution, zero dropped frames
and the responsiveness is fantastic.
4K footage out of the DJI Mavic drone,
no issues here.
This is when I ate it on the motorcycle, you see that?
Anyways, let's not show that.
Finally, let's get into 8K footage.
This is RED RAW 8K footage.
I don't even have 8K footage, because my RED only shoots 5K.
But just like the 5K, it doesn't really make sense
to preview and edit in full resolution.
'Cause 8K, that is so many pixels.
Like, literally, I could drop it down to quarter resolution,
and to my eye that looks perfectly sharp.
Crystal clear in full screen.
I mean, that's just how many pixels 8K is.
It looks nice and sharp, and it's responsive
and it's playing back without any dropped frames.
Let's try to blow up this computer
and actually there's like a little marker here
in the effects panel that says accelerated effects.
So an effect like sharpen, that's a GPU accelerated effect.
So let's drop that in.
I'll add a little bit of sharpening,
a little bit of Lumetri color grading on this clip.
Lookin' nice.
Oh my god, even with these effects applied,
it's playing back without dropping frames.
Again, we are at quarter resolution,
but you could edit 8K footage on this thing.
I'm gunna leave these effects on here
and I'm gunna put it up to full resolution,
and I'm just gunna play it back.
It does still play, somewhat, but it does hiccup a lot
and does lock up quite a bit.
Again, you would never need to play back at this resolution,
but what's interesting is NVIDIA told me that
this actually isn't a hardware limitation.
The thing is the GPU is only useful
if the software running it utilizes the GPU.
And NVIDIA is working very closely with all the top dogs
in software, like DaVinci and Adobe, and all these people
to help enable using more GPU acceleration,
but a good example is REDCINE-X in their latest update.
They enabled heavy GPU acceleration,
and here watch this.
This is without GPU acceleration.
If you try to playback an 8K clip at full resolution,
it's just absolutely terrible.
Imagine trying to edit a video
where every second it just pauses.
It plays, pauses.
Plays, and then loads.
This would drive you nuts.
We're gunna pop on GPU acceleration,
and playing back full 8K resolution.
So, this really shows the capability
of what this hardware is capable of,
we're just kind of waiting for this software
to utilize it more and once they do that,
this is gunna be unstoppable.
So thanks again NVIDIA for sponsoring this episode,
and schooling me on all this technical knowledge.
I've been a big fan for a long time obviously,
so it's awesome to be collaborating with them.
You wanna know something crazy?
I've been using this laptop for the last few weeks,
and I just realized it's a touch screen, what?
I've just been trained to never touch the screen,
but yesterday I accidentally bumped it,
and I noticed I clicked on something.
I'm like, wait a second.
Make sure you hit that link down there in the description,
where you can see the whole NVIDIA Studio line up.
Not only did they do a great job collaborating
with Razer, but other brands as well.
Anyways, lets wrap this up by
reading a few comments from my last video,
which was all about this camera,
the Canon M6 Mark II.
A surprisingly powerful camera
and possibly a great option for Youtubers and vloggers.
Top comment from Ryan Garcia,
"Potato sack. The fact that I'm seeing Gene with Peter now,
makes me such a proud subscriber.
They grow up so fast."
How unreal is that?
I still remember when I was just starting the channel,
I would always watch Matty and Peter's video
and I would've just never guessed
that I would ever have a chance to meet them
and now like Matty came to visit me a week ago,
and we're gunna go to Hawaii next month,
and then this week Peter comes to visit
and we get to hang out.
Sometimes I still feel like I'm just gunna wake up
from a dream and just be like,
aw man, I gotta get back to sleep.
Sebastian says, "I love the fact that my comments
are almost always appearing on the screen,
but are actually never read."
Well, congratulations Sebastian,
I'm gunna read your comment,
and not only that I'm gunna stalk you for a second.
Wait, are you a subscriber?
You're not even subscribed to my channel, bro?
Sebastian Kisiel you better subscribe.
Tell you what, I'll trade you a heart for a subscribe.
Good deal?
"Gene is hitting puberty with that deep voice."
Okay, literally the last video and this video,
my voice has been kind of messed up.
Literally, from that little rock and roll segment.
I wasn't kidding, I actually lost my voice from that.
Literally, if I just shout once like that I lose my voice.
Which makes me wonder, we just went to a haunted house
and literally there's people hired there
that just sit in like a little cabinet and they just go,
"Bah!"
How do you not lose your voice
after the first hour of your shift?
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