Kristian Tigersjäl
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That’s life I guess… and mac’s are expensive, not always with good reason! it’s premium stuff that’s just the way it is!
The iMac limitations in expansions is something that angers me aswell… but the only option would be mac pro and that is just going too far price-wise for me. Even then I’m not sure you can change cpu and you can certainly not change motherboard if that one goes out (or a component therein as isn’t unusual).
So the difference isn’t huge really there, the only thing that can be changed or added on a mac pro that is useful and can’t be done on an imac is the graphics card but on the other hand this isn’t a huge deal for me so I’ll just have to go with an iMac.
I initially aimed for building a hackintosh but it was just hopeless to make something work nicely and get stable there.
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That is the whole point here, I am getting a mac, and there is no choice on this in the matter. I don’t think you can overclock a mac pro either, though I haven’t verfied this assumption.
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It’s not afaik possible to overclock a mac cpu. Read that as “a cpu in mac” 😉
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That was a nice reply, this is what I SUSPECT but haven’t heard anyone say. Most people are keen to rather go too high than risking not getting satisfied but macs are very expensive and a balance needs to be made between performance vs cost.
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The 3,5 drives in mid-2011 models now feature a special cable taht makes none-apple drives unsuitable, they work but make the machine noisy… Have no idea how that works with ssd as they are 2,5 and probably aren’t as hot if hot at all.
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Thanks this should prove helpful. The thing here is that video editing isn’t the sole purporse of this computer, it’s also going to be used for general acticities aswell as programming so there are alot of needs that need to be met and this is where I am doubtful on what to get. I just found a firm in Sweden that installs SSD’s from 3rd party so this may be an option aswell,
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Part of FCPX’s new features are “native editing of AVCHD” so that should definetely be possible. It may not be perfect for everything but for simple editing ti should most likely work fine.
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Oh I wasn’t aware such a thing existed since I’ve not worked much with interlaced material before, good to know!
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Thanks for the ultrafast answer 😉
Seems that I understood most of this correctly then. So Blend for everything if the motion isn’t very fast where interpolate may be better. Great.
Thanks again.
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An answer to you, AND myself 😉
First: Yes, I know, it’s insane trying to edit them directly, but I still tried considering I’d have to convert several hours of xvid material which would take such a long time.
Now, to the answer to myself, and EVERYBODY ELSE trying to do this, despite all the good advice against:
These are the facts on xvid videos in Vegas:
1: Vegas doesn’t handle VBR MP3 tracks in videos, there is no codec that to my knowledge can be installed that replaces vegas built in mp3 plugin (not one that handles the mp3 in .avi’s anyway). If your XVID contains VBR audio (or any .avi file for that matter) your best bet is to either convert the whole file into something else or extract just the audio and import this on the side into vegas.
2: Vegas 64bit doesn’t go along nicely with ffdshow 64bit, no matter which version of ffdshow you try. There’s an incompatibility somewhere between them that causes the trimmer window to freeze the video when importing xvid .avi’s directly (the timeline works as expected). The 32bit of vegas combined with the 32bit version of ffdshow doesn’t have this problem. Reason? Not sure, but 64bit video codecs so far is a little of hit or miss. Solutions: the original xvid codec in 64bit version DOES work correctly with the 64bit version of vegas, and if you really really know what you’re doing you can make this coexist with ffdshow but I’m warning you: you’re gonna need some good knowledge in how to configure this kind of setup.
3: Save yourself the trouble with all this and just convert the clips first as proposed by the previous writer. I just provide you with these findings to help anyone else that just MUST drop the files directly into vegas. Hopefully google will index this page because there is alot of erroneous information about these problems out there.
John: I’m giving up and going with option 3 here, convert the files. Thanks for your reply, I hoped to get further with this but it just wasn’t possible.