[Bruce Richard]

Thank you very much!

You added; “I added 14 Chapter Markers on the DVDA Timeline; added Scene Selection; added a sub menu and dragged ALL the 14 “Scenes/Chapters” from the folder navigator directly onto the Submenu. Done!”

I’ve never done any of those processes, but I’ll take a stab at it soon. If it’s something I can’t figure out for myself, I’ll get back with you here.

Thank you very much again!

[Bruce Richard]

I rendered out a .264 file through Avisynth.

[Bruce Richard]

Maybe possibly drag the preview window up, (or use the adjustments at the far right of the “track window” to shrink it down enough to see both tracks/bring the video track into sight) there may not be enough room to see both the audio and video track? I’m thinking they are both there, one is just hidden, in this case, the video.

Not saying that that is the answer, but that it could be the issue….

Good luck

[Bruce Richard]

No, the confusion was even more easily explained in that.

I completely forgot that when referencing the Apple computer, you would’ve been using Final Cut Pro, not SV. In my head as I read it I was picturing them both using Vegas and I was wondering why ba 4 core would work on the Apple but that the PC, forgetting about the respective software.

Total brain fart on my part.

[Bruce Richard]

Thanks for the reply John.

Yes, it is mostly a hobby with me. And I don’t have plans to delve into 4K anytime soon, but of course it is a possibility for the future.

And yes, I do hold on to my computers for a long time, my present one, the one that’s dying, I had built in April of 2012 and its an AMD A6-3650 APU with Radeon HD Graphics. 2.60GHz. So yeah, 5+ years.

There is some sticker shock when I look at the prices on the i9’s, but maybe I just need to take the hit, and arealize that the extra will be spread out over many years, hopefully.

I did do some quick googling on looking for the “Sony recommended 8 core for 4k” aspect of this, and I found a thread from a couple years ago that you were in, and if I read it right, you said you played around at the apple store with a 4 core for 4k editing, and it worked well. That kind of confused me. There was mention in the same paragraph about a slower, but 8 core processor, maybe that was what you were referring to?

Here’s the thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=24&postid=978059&univpostid=978059&pview=t

If anybody still in the PC game has thoughts on a choice for a GPU, i’m still trying to learn.

[Bruce Richard]

I’m in sort of a similar place, though clearly not exactly, and thought I’d jump in here with a related question.

My current desktop is on its last legs, and I am out getting estimates on a new build. when I gave the guy my requirements, after reading so much here (mostly John Rofrano beating the drum, IIRC) over the years about how AMD cards with the openCL feature were so much better for SV, I mentioned to him make it an AMD video card.

He just sent me back an estimate, and he selected a RX580 for the GPU. Also, he specced a Core i7 7700k processor. Not sure what mobo he picked out. A 500Gb SSD, 32Gb of RAM, Windows 10. I have multiple external HDD’s and another 750Gb internal HDD.

Did some quick googling, and saw some mentions here and there about how the recent offerings from AMD aren’t as effective at exploiting the openCL feature as they used to be? Does that sound right? I wasn’t sure how to interpret everything I was reading so I thought I’d comer over here to the experts to see what they thought.

I mainly use my machine for using Vegas 13 to edit, color and exposure correct old 8mm film scans (but some new HD stuff as well, …… no 4K yet) and then frame-serve it out of Vegas into an Avisynth restoration script for further improvements.

By asking for the AMD/openCL GPU, am I asking for something that doesn’t really fit my needs? (at least as much as it used to?) If so, which way should I look, if there are good suggestions.

Any knowledgeable guidance would be appreciated. And if more details are needed, let me know.

Thank you

[Bruce Richard]

Thank you Wayne. Yes, I just want a pretty simple straight forward sharpening all the way to sharp. Ending about halfway through the static image (which is about 10 seconds long), so, about five seconds long in this case. I’ll play with it when I get back on my workstation.

Sounds pretty straight forward.

[Bruce Richard]

Using Vegas 13 pro, left that part out.

[Bruce Richard]

Never mind, I figured it out. I was sending it YUV color., it needed d RGB color.

[Bruce Richard]

OK, I did some digging online, and I found a reference to a command inside VDub under “Video” called “framerate”. There is an option in there where you can decimate by 2, IOW, in my case, every othetr frame, which removed my duplicates. After saving the file I am now down around 15fps (14.985 actually), but my original mov is now an avi.

I then load that 15fps file back up in Vdub, and run the deshaker program.

This is a big improvement. After I deshook the original file at a full 30fps, on some scenes with quick lateral motion, it was very, very choppy.

After running it through again with the framerate adjusted down to 15fps, the deshaker program runs as it was designed to. Very nice results. Choppiness removed.

After I deshake it, I’ll have a 15fps file to feed into Vegas. I assume it’ll come out (I’m rendering to a frameserver, out to avisynth. I’ll remove the “selecteven” command there, as it will already have the duplicate frames removed, I think I have that right…)

Is what I did, and am doing, the best way to go about this? Or am I adding an extra step, or is there a smoother way to do this, etc?