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No 30fps playback for you… (even with Gearshift)
Hi everyone,
I’m wondering if you could weigh in with some opinions on something…
I have a 3.2gHz Intel box with 4gig of DDR3 good quality ram and an ATI HD4850 (with the newest 9.1 driver).
I’m trying to edit an SD DVD using a combination of SD and HDV NTSC footage. Obviously having a mix of footage size means that I can’t set the project resolution to both sizes, and so I’m getting very poor playback on either one or the other.
I thought Vegas Pro 8 + Gearshift might be the answer. Trouble is that no usage instructions (other than installation) came with Gearshift. Just an installer file and a PDF with install instructions. I may be doing something wrong, but right now I’m finding it’s taking over 2 hours to convert a 3 minute clip (and turning the HDV from 650mb into 5.4gig?!). At that rate getting in 10 hours of footage to edit down to a 1 hour show is going to take over 400 hours of transcoding before I can even *start* editing (let alone do the final render).
Does this sound right? Is some kind of quad core beast needed just to edit a mix of HDV and SD at all? Is there a better way and I’m just missing it, or is the lack of instructions on gearshift just getting me doing something waaaay off?
Any ideas appreciated. (c:
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3 Replies
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You will want to make your proxy files (in Gearshift) a lower rez. It sounds like you are converting to avi uncompressed or some form of avi with minimal compression- of course if you use the cineform intermediary then your file sizes will be large.
Take a look at this thread and see if it aides you any.
j razz
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OK,
Well I discovered that it was in fact rendering both a proxy and an intermediate file. Turning intermediate off took rendering down from 2 hours to 50 minutes (for a 3 minute clip). This still seems kind of high to me.
What’s everyone else think?
Added to this playback (of the proxies) is still at around a lousy 7 fps.
– The proxy is on an internal physical drive
– It is created at the same properties as the project (NTSC standard). Gearshift doesn’t seem to allow for lower res proxies than this.
– Video is on a separate physical drive to Vegas.
– Drivers are up to date.
– Drive is recently defragged.Any ideas appreciated!
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Can you email me one of the proxy files you created that plays back at 7fps as well as a piece of the original footage? If it is too big, use a file delivering service such as yousendit.com. I would like to try it on my machine to see what is going on.
j razz
You can email me at jeremy [dot] rasnic [at] jrazzcreations [dot] com
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