John Laird
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Clive..
When rendering try going into task manager and seeing how much of your resources are being used to and that might give you an idea of where your bottleneck is.
Here is a short video I shot to test the DJI Osmo It was shot in 4K and rendered down to 1920 by 1080 in less than 2 min. I also did the same output in Full 4K and that also rendered out in less than 2.min. I also Toshiba 4K P55tB52 laptop as a mobile device and find it does a very good job of rendering and playing back 4K footage. The only problem I have with the 15 in screen is the scaling issues with on the 4K screen.
https://www.movingmoment.net/Parktest.mp4
John
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I just built a new computer for 4K editing using an Asus X99 A 2 Motherboard, 32 Gb of ddr 4 memory an Asus R9 390 along with an intel 5960 x. The hard drive is a Samsung 1 tb ssd, and it plays back any 4 K footage I have put on the timeline without s stutter along with any transitions I have used. The render times are better than real time as well. To say I am more than satisfied with this system would be a gross understatement. I also have the ability to scroll around the timeline in full resolution using 4K settings on everything. I also decided to go with windows 7 Pro and haven’t had any issues. When rendering and going into task manager it is awesome to see 16 threads running at 116 percent or better…. WOO WOO WOO!!!!!! It took about three hours to put together and during the burn in process the power supply failed. After replacing the power supply the system has been awesome.
John
To respond to the thread the GPU works just great with this System.
J
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I have a Phantom 3 pro and have no problem editing or playing back the 4K footage on my Toshiba P55t-B5262 Satellite 4K laptop. I had problems before the latest Vegas 13 build. My Laptop has the AMD R9 GPU, and it works very well with Vegas 13.
John
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You can also go to the Tools menu in Vegas and create a Blue-ray disk right from Vegas. The caveat here is It won’t have a menu, but it will play as soon as you put it in the Blue-Ray Player.
John
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John and Russ,,
I understand what you are saying, but 100 mb or 400 mb makes a big difference on who can see the files and bandwidth. A lot of folks out there are running XP machines or even Vista and they don’t like mp4 files. Here is the video as an mp4.
https://www.movingmoment.net/Newfield.mp4
John
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I couldn’t agree more. The clip I am including was captured with a phantom 3 4K The clips were 4K and rendered to 1440 by 1080 with the wmv codec. The quality is outstanding as it is only 3 meg a sec. Yes it’s not perfect , but I feel for the size it looks great. I also rendered it as a mp4 at 1920 by 1080. That looks superb. Way too big for most folks on the net though.
https://www.movingmoment.net/Newfield.wmv
John
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Thanks,, That would be great..
John
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Lukas ..
I have a G73J Asus 17 laptop and have tried to install the latest drivers for the same model card you have and have had no success. The video drivers crash and I have to go back to the original drivers. The bad thing is the original drivers don’t support GPU acceleration in Vegas 12 or 13. Frustrating…
John
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I agree with John on the sheer size of 4K footage. But I have found the latest version of Vegas 13 does a great job with a descent computer and a good card like the R9 series. But the problem here is no one can view them on most computers unless they have a 4K video card and monitor. Not quite ready for prime time. Again the 4K footage plays back awesome on a 4K system. One more item is, if you use the 4K footage as your source file and render the final output to 1920 by 1080 the higher detail of the 4K source footage gives you a better render than a normal res file. {more detail}.
John
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Doug..
The scaling issue I spoke of will show up as some of your tools and menu’s will be very small because of the 4K display. I am not sure if the computer you have has a 4K display or not. If not it won’t be an issue. I read in other answers to your question that the CPU isn’t fast enough, but I disagree. the CPU throttles up beyond 3 gh when rendering and never looks back. The problem you are having I believe is the choice of the video card. Sony doesn’t play well with a cuda card. On the other hand it plays quite well with the AMD R9 card. GPU rendering and play bach work great using the latest build of Vegas 13.
John