Ben Waggoner
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Anyone find a solution for this yet? I just tried (3.2, NVidia), and I’m having the exact same problem?
Is there a known-bad font I shold get rid of? I don’t really have the stomach to trial-and-error until I find the malefactor.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
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So, the specific complaint I read here is about the User Authentication dialogs? That basically pops up when an application tries to modify a file that’s not in a standard place for that application. This generally reflects an application that doesn’t follow long-standing Microsoft programming guidelines, and is a useful way to keep any malware accidentally on a machine from hurting anything.
That said, it’s also trivial to turn off on a particular machine if you’re not worried about misbehaving apps and malware. The good news is that the existance of the UAC is finally getting developers to follow the rules and newer apps don’t trigger them nearly as much. So if that’s your primary complaint, you can either turn it off if you can live with XP-level security, or see if your apps have been upated so as not to trigger that.
Which version should a video editor buy? I think any of Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate would be equally good for runnig the apps themselves. Business and Ultimate gives you full domain and remote desktop support if needed (not for a home machine or standalone workstation), and Home Premium and Ultimate give Media Center (possibly useful for testing content playback). As to why diffent versions? The same reason that most software products have different versions; there are features that Pros are willing to pay for that consumers aren’t. If you have a single product with a single price, either the price is too high for consumers, or so low that you can’t justify bulding in Pro features for that market. Again, most content creation products have a varient on this (three versions of Photoshop, 2-4 of Final Cut (depending on whether you count the server and iMovie). Note that XP actually has quite a few more available versions than Vista:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_editionsIn the end, for consumers you basically have the Home and Pro versions like XP, plus the Ultimate version that combines all the features of both (the lack of which was a pain for me at least, since Icouldn’t be on a domain and also have Media Center).
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
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Yes, people who are negative about Vista certainly seem to like what they see in Mojave a lot better.
You can check it out for yourself here:
https://www.mojaveexperiment.com/?WT.srch=1
I’m manifestly a video professional, and on all my hardware I’ve acquired since Vista shipped, I find Vista a better OS. While XP certainly can work on less powerful machines, any machine capable of running current generation video products well are going to be more than enough to run Vista.
And Vista doesn’t use any more CPU power or memory for the same stuff as XP; an application uses what it uses. Some people have gotten confused by looking at Task Manager memory use in Vista, noticing that after the machine has been used for a while it tends to stay at around 50%. This is a bug, not a feature; it’s keeping recently used files and applications cached in RAM in case they get used again. But that memory is immediately surrendered to any app that needs it. And if you’re using Aero Glass, Vista will use less CPU, since all GUI rendering gets moved to the video card.
That’s not to say that you didn’t have a bad experience; if you were using an app that hadn’t been updated to support Vista, or hardware with an incompatible driver, then you can have all kinds of problems. But those aren’t issues with the OS, but with your apps or drivers (which very well may have long since been addressed).
If you can give me some details about what didn’t work for you, I’d be happy to find out the status of those.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
If you’re running an ancient version of Premiere Pro (CS3 = Premiere Pro 3; 1.5 is over 4 years old now), you probably want to stick with XP as Adobe stopped updating 1.5 well before Vista shipped. The current CS3 works great for me on Vista.
Vista is most compelling when coupled with current hardware and software that can take advantage of it.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
That’s a very broad answer without asking any specifics!
I’m happy doing all my encoding and video production on several Vista Ultimate machines (with a Server 2008 Standard system I use as a backup rendering node as well). It’s a misconception that Vista is any slower than XP similar configured. If you turn on indexinx and have a ton of files, it’ll be more active the first few days as ait builds the index, but that service is paused when doing anything CPU intennsive. Also, if you’re using the Aero Glass GUI, all the on-screen rendering takes place on the GPU, not the CPU, making it much more responsive to user input when under heavy load, and better yet, it keeps the UI from stealing cycles from whatever you’re readering.
Vista is also optimized for NUMA architectures for multi-socket systems. This means it’ll offer a nice performance boost versus XP on AMD 2+ socket systems, and Intel’s forthcoming Nehalem platform (shouldn’t matter for your current Xeons).
The key is to run an OS that supports all of your hardware and software. The CS2 suite had some issues for me on Vista, but CS3 has been rock solid for me; I don’t have any software I use anymore that has issues on Vista.
So, Raymond, what software do you run on your system? Any unusual hardware?
Also, XP Service Pack 3 has been out for a few months now, and it’s be fine for me as well. It’s not nearly the leap forward that SP2 was (which was almost as substantial a release as a new OS, but just for free and without UI changes). But probably worth installing if you don’t have any software that doesn’t support it.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
Well, EE incorporates the VC-1 Encdoer SDK which offers higher quality, faster encoding, and a lot more control than the old SDK used in ProCoder. ProCoder’s big brother Rhozet Carbon does have it, but it’s quite a bit more expensive.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
Have you checked out Expression Encoder?
https://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Overview.aspx?key=encoder
It’s got better/faster WMV encoding than Windows Media Encoder, and can read QuickTime files natively (as long as it’s a codec supported by QuickTime for Windows).
https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Expression-Suite-2-and-Expression-Encoder-2-now-shipping/
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
About 130 word a minute last I checked :).
I mainly do the forums when my machines are all busy doing rendering, or when I need to procrastinate.
That’s the secret of highly productive people, I think. They’ve always got two important projects going at once, so that when they procrastinate from one thing, they procrastinate by doing real world on the other…
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
I was up working on some Olympics related stuff until 3:30 am this morning, so when I read that, I was hoping some kind of dream had come true :).
Alas, while I have actually embarked on a second edition, I haven’t written much yet. I wouldn’d expect it to be on the shelves until mid next year.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
Actually, the current Zune ’07 models (the 4, 8, and 80) support a pretty big superset of iPod MPEG-4; 4 Mbps Main Profile compared to ~1.5 Mbps baseline profile.
However, note that this isn’t supported in the 1st gen Zune (30), which only supports WMV files of 320x240p30 or less, with peak bitrate of 1.5 Mbps. The desktop software will automatically transcode .mp4 files to a supported WMV for the user, though.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/