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Dave Osbun
January 22, 2013 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Kepler and Sony Vegas – (angry face)

I still don’t understand how you can blame Sony. You are trying to run brand new hardware technology on software that was released a few years ago. When I installed Vegas Pro 8 on my brand new workstation, my render times were barely better than it was on my 7 year old laptop. Again, not Sony’s fault as that version of the software was not coded to take advantage of today’s hardware architecture. How long have Kepler cards been out- just a couple of months? It’s wrong to throw any blame at Sony here.
Dave Osbun
January 22, 2013 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Are higher spec machines only important for render, or general use?

This is just my personal opinion, but if I was going to build/buy a new workstation for video editing, why limit yourself by going with a laptop? A desktop will be cheaper to buy/build and give you more flexibility for upgrading the system in the future. I have yet to see a laptop that has more than 2 slots for RAM, and if the laptop has a separate graphics card (usually only the high-end ones do), it will be the mobile version of a desktop card, which will not be as powerful.

If you need the portability, then a laptop is for you, but for best bang-for-your-buck, desktop workstations are the way to go.

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Dave Osbun
January 22, 2013 at 2:02 pm in reply to: Kepler and Sony Vegas – (angry face)

I would be angry, too, if I spent over $450 on a graphics card and not be able to take advantage of its power. But John is correct in that it’s really nVidia’s fault. Maybe you should contact Sony Creative Software and ask them if Vegas 12 will take advantage of it. I just upgraded from Vegas Pro 8 to Pro 12 last week, and I called Sony Creative Software to ask them if they had any ‘specials’ for me and not having to pay the $189 upgrade price. They gave me the upgrade for $151!!

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Dave Osbun
January 21, 2013 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Are higher spec machines only important for render, or general use?

GPU basically means “what video card does it have?” Most higher-end systems seem to have nVidia or ATI Radeon cards nowadays, but you’ll still want to make sure your new system has a good card.

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Dave Osbun
January 17, 2013 at 4:29 pm in reply to: GPU vs CPU

I did a render test with my new system (Intel i5 3.4Ghz and ATI Radeon HD7850 graphics card). I did one render with GPU render selected and a second render with CPU only selected) and the render times were pretty much equal. Maybe there was a 4 second difference between them, with total render time taking 4 minutes.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that if you have an older (ie- slower) processor and a newer, high-powered graphics card, then the render times will be shorter if GPU render is selected.

Dave

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Dave Osbun
January 16, 2013 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Vimeo 720 upgrade to 1080

Being able to play a 1080 video from a website is strictly dependent on the end-user’s internet connection. From my personal experience with my 15gb cable internet, I have no issues playing 1080 video from either YouTube or Vimeo. However, if I play the video full-screen, at times there may be a slight hangup.

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Dave Osbun
January 10, 2013 at 2:23 pm in reply to: Rendered MP4 Files Audio/Video Out Of Sync

Have you tried watching the YouTube clip on a different computer? I have seen instances where the audio and video were out of sync, but once rendered it played fine. This usually had to do with the amount of data in the video, and the system wasn’t powerful enough to process all of the information in the clip, hence the sync issue.

However, i’m at a loss with it being out of sync when viewing on YouTube, since those files are usually small enough for any system to play.

Are you playing these full-screen on YouTube? If so, try playing in the default window size and see how the sync is.

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Dave Osbun
January 9, 2013 at 6:21 pm in reply to: new computer build

RAID is a great asset to a video editing workstation. With a RAID 0 configuration (also known as ‘striping’), your system will have better performance (if you are using better quality/faster hard drives) since the data will be written to both drives simultaneously. The only downside is if one of those drives fail, then your data

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Dave Osbun
January 9, 2013 at 4:50 pm in reply to: Rendering settings for GoPro 3 Footage (1920x1080p 60 fps) in Sony Vegas Pro 11?

I may be wrong, but I do not believe that YouTube offers 60fps video. My understanding is that YouTube can only handle/playback 30fps and nothing more.

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