Regrettably my machine seems to really be struggling with NJ’s inputs. It slows down so badly that it can’t render the preview video at even the worst setting, so I’m effectively editing blind.

I know my machine can handle high quality sources because I’ve edited 1080p versions of the Hobbit movies with no trouble, so I think it must be NJ’s. My assumption is that it’s the 10-bit colour information as opposed to the original source’s (and more common) 8-bit info, and with such a high resolution and long length file it’s too much to process.

Now, it’s not to the actual upscaling that’s causing this, since I’m using his 1080p versions. But in the process I believe NJ is introducing HDR lighting. It gives us a subtlety of colour which frankly isn’t vital to us. Colour that deep is mostly useful for colour processing, which I don’t intend to do (since NJ has already done that himself). I would still like to preserve his colour grade if possible - but I don’t need all that deep data. So option one is that I’m running his Christophsis episode through my rendering pipeline now, but with 8-bit colour, to see if I can handle what’s returned as a new input.

Failing that, option two is to revert back to using the original sources, which frankly are fine, just not quite as rich in colour as NJ’s. I can always grade them myself, I suppose, though that’d be a huge amount of effort for minimal reward - it was more of just a bonus from using NJ’s.

Edit: It’s taken an hour to render 4%, so re-processing NJ’s may be a non-starter.