Hey everyone, so I thought you might be interested in the Journey I've just started in building my a mobile studio based on Vmix for my little company.
The plan is to have it up and running in about a month from now, and Ill keep a sort of journey posted here.

So first of all, some design pictures!

[img]https://imgur.com/9neEsCv[/img][img]https://imgur.com/L7w3tcN[/img]
[img]https://imgur.com/ieJaBrn[/img][img]https://imgur.com/0Y3q2Uq[/img]
[img]https://imgur.com/jbOpcvW[/img][img]https://imgur.com/3RDYZBk[/img]

This is has now gone to a couple of casebuilders to get quotations on it.
Apart from this main setup there will be a second smaller multifunctional set.
Ive chosen for minimal hardware IO since most of my workflow is NDI based.

The small setup will be used for PTZ control (PTZ optics NDI cameras) with an Xkeys Joystick. On top of that it will be able to do anything Vmix can if the production demands: Redundant Recording, Small event Video production, Encoding, Instant replay, whatver my client needs. Hardware:

Ryzen 7 1700
16GB ram
GTX1060 6GB
970 EVO M.2 SSD
Blackmagic Decklink 4K Pro

The large setup consists of 2 computers. One main video hub beast and one still fast sattelite. The main computer will handle any hardware IO and most of the heavy lifting on the NDI side. The sattelite will be used for administration and support. So some events it will run videos others it will be instant replay, basically a flexible sattelite.
The entire setup will be housed in the case as seen above, with UPS power supplies, and flexible patching. The upper 2 screens are proper color 4k displays, the bottom 3 are 1080p ones for sytem operation.
The drawer will contain an Xkeys 124 with lever and a Xkeys 64 JOG for replays and video controls.

Sattelite hardware:
Ryzen 7 2700X
16GB ram
GTX1070ti
2x 970 EVO M.2 SSD
Blackmagic Decklink 4K Pro

Beast hardware:
Threadripper 2990WX
16GB ram
1080ti
Blackmagic Decklink 4K Pro
Blackmagic Decklink 4K Extreme 12G

As you can see Ive chosen for a AMD based investment. Currently I run multiple PCs with windows which Im quite happy with, but with my heavy NDI workflow, Ive decided for as much multicore performance as I could get for the budgets per computer. Especially the Beast has the new Threadripper 2, which beats any other CPU on the market at the moment, both on regular benchmarks as well as Multicore benchmarks. 32 cores is just sweet for NDI workflow. My experience with i5 sattelites has been that Id rather had more cores for the same money for my workflow. However, since almost everyone runs Intel at the moment, its a bit of a leap of faith, but Ill keep yall posted. I also didnt like losing 5% performance due to Spectre and Meltdown, I really notice it on a sat that runs the i5 that ran at 80% before, and now gets close to 90% too often for my liking (water cooled, so temp is fine)

I hope I posted this in the correct place. Shoot questions and advice, Ill filter out the harsh words :P

Thanks for the feedback, but as far as I know those issues were related to the Threadripper 1 X99 chipset. Threadripper 1 is known to have lag based performance issues, hence they were never the king of anything. Threadripper 2 has solved those issues tho, and is only a bit over a month old.

If it turns out performance sucks I will be swapping it for an i9, but multithread performance per dollar is lower for intel.

The Ryzen 7s are on B450 chipset, and I had some feedback that they run without issue, so there its a case at looking at budget and seeing what has the best performance, instead of lowering the budget to match a performance.

One update now tho is that my Blackmagic suplier is out of 4K pros for the next month, so Ill be installing 8k Pros, which downsample without issue anyways.

Got in my patch fields. New attachments!

Hey i'm enjoying the build guide keep it up.

I was wondering why you are going for the 2990WX over the 2950X?
From looking at the benchmarks and architecture it seems like 2950x is the more logical choice.

So, finished putting together all 3 systems.

Some pictures of the BEAST server with TR

So the BEAST is all assembled and installed. Just waiting on the Deckling Quad2 Duo or W/e its called.

So I just put up a medium load test setup with 20 Video inputs running at 1080p60 55mbps bitrate, mixed with some H264 .mkv videos, a live webcam, some NDI feeds from my workstation.

Main goal of the initial test: Test hardware stability. Cant have it crashing ever. Like never ever. Render times look stable under 16ms (1 keyframe at 60fps) NDI render times look even better, with some pictures perfectly aligning the sync test.

EDIT: Attaching has errors. So IMGUR!

https://imgur.com/nnpz4f0

Has anyone done tests with the Threadripper 2? I saw the issues with ripper 1.

And man, I can't wait to see your finished product!

There's a thread currently in hardware compatibility about TR2 performance with vmix and converters. Current results look great for my choice, although ill be using a lot more NDI then their tests hence using the 2990 instead of 2950. Over th next week Ill run some tests amd share those results, but for now it seems any old issues were resolved.

Basically gen 1 ryzen had a response delay on pci lanes causing them to underperform. My current tests show that I can get unser average keyframe latency.

I dont have specific sources for this.

I do know from Tim that the way the architecture handled calls from PCIE to CPU had a certain delay/latency to it which made it underperform for Vmix (and games) compared to Intel processors. In some reviews about Gen 2 Ryzen, youll read about this, I think Linus mentioned this on his first news about TR2/Ryzen 2 as did Jayztwocents.

Thanks Dan, Ill have a play around once I got to making my default rental preset.