László Kovács
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Hi,
In a laptop you can’t replace the videocard. It’s just built onto the PCB of that notebook.
Steve is right in a way that Ati cards do much better, but this does not mean an Nvidia won’t work.
However, with Vegas you can’t get the full potential of your Nvidia card, because Nvidia has intentionally weaker opencl support.One thing was not mentioned:
Recent laptops with a dedicated video usually have a hybrid system, so there’s an energy-efficient Intel video beside the dedicated high-performance Ati/Nvidia video.
You may want to make sure, Vegas can get to the Nvidia, by assigning it to a “High performance”, or something like that profile. You can do this in a special control panel of the laptops driver, mine is called “Switchable graphics” – but it’s an Ati (Lenovo z51-70); yours can be named differently.To see if Vegas can actually use your GPU, check the video tab on preferences. If the GPU acceleration item shows something that mentions your Nvidia, then Vegas can use it. If it shows “Off”, and you don’t have an option to set it to something other, then you have to look around for what it is missing – probably the performance profile assignment.
Kind regards
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I’m glad it worked for you.
The sound of your PC is normal, because if you disable the GPU, then the CPU has to do all the work.
I just upgraded to Vegas 13 recently, and came from Vegas 10, which didn’t have GPU support, so I have an idea what you hear. Don’t worry about it.
I’m still evaluating V13 and it’s GPU support and my experiences are a mixture of good and bad things.
Good is that with GPU (Radeon 6970) things work a whole lot faster, for example I can 25fps preview/full a text over a blurred image and on another track there’s another image which needs chroma key and than drop shadow… all this with 20% CPU load, and my CPU is not a top notch (i5 3570).
In Vegas 10 I had to do a selective prerender to be able to preview this timeline, because the CPU alone could do only 1/2 fps.
So the GPU support is great, when it works. But the sad thing is that t’s heap of bugs, and often behaves unpredictable, or reproduceable wrong.
So when something weird is happening, the first thing anyone will suggest to disable GPU support. I know, that’s disappointing. (Well, for me it is definitely)
My only hope is that Magix will fix these issues in V14.Kind regards
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Hi,
What happens if you do a prerender of that portion of timeline?
What if you render to another codec?Did you try to render with GPU disabled?
Kind regards
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🙂
You’d be surpirsed to know how many people out there are walking with this name, and just few of them got famous or well known in a way.
Here’s a list I picked quickly:
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kov%C3%A1cs_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_%28egy%C3%A9rtelm%C5%B1s%C3%ADt%C5%91_lap%29The english list is somewhat shorter, but there are still more than 2 names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Kov%C3%A1cs
:))…and I’m none of them all 😉
Cheers
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[Graham Bernard] “I’m trying to get my head around your “24” number.”
Hi,
I’m quite sure it’s 3 times the 8 bit.
So either 8 bit for R, G, B or Y, U, V and guess depends on codec as well.
On the project preview the 32 is 4 times the 8 bit, if you chage properties to one of the 32 bit wide presets, then it will show 128.
I’m not sure wether the fourth 8 (or 32) bit is simply blank, or reserved for A (alpha, tranparency).Anyway, I don’t think the blurryness is related to this number. I’d better think of some server-side post processing that is done after the upload – if the uploaded mp4 is sharp enough when played locally…
If that’s the case, I’m afraid there’s not much possible to do against it.
Kind regards
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Hi,
is the media online on your timeline?
Then right click the clip, then “properties…”, and on the general tab you’ll find the filename, and the folder where it is…Best regards
László Kovács
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:)))
I guess you think of him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Kov%C3%A1cs_%28cinematographer%29Well, I’m not that man, and despite the matching family (and given) name, I’m not related to him in any way.
I’m just an event videographer, and mainly do conference, corporate videos, weddings and such.
This is a very frequent name over here, so chances are others with this name use Vegas as well 🙂
Oh, and I am still alive – sadly, the famous László Kovács died almost 10 years ago.Best regards
László Kovács
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Yes, really, I did it too. But have undone, because my Vegasaur disappeared.
I’ll wait for Vegas 14..
Regards
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Hi,
Don’t worry, Magix website is far from complete now.
I’m sure they’ll add the update later.
Until then, contact Magix support providing your Sony serials.
They are going to help you.
Some keywords that might help you find on the website
“support”, “technical support”, “visit personal…” (this will be at the bottom), “Former SCS product”Kind regards
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Hi,
I can tell you about the x70.
I don’t have this camera, but had to work with it few times when helping a colleague here.
To my experience X70 is a very good secondary camera, with good low light performance.
However, as a primary camera I would not take it.
On this cam there’s only one ring, and you have to choose, what it controls.
It is impossible to do a smooth slow zoom, the even slowest zoom speed is too fast.
When I switch to zoom with the ring, and try to zoom slow, the zoom is moving in clearly visible steps.
I know, my friend uses Vegas and Premier, I never heard him complaining, so I assume that the footage coming from this camera works well…I’d better look for NX100, there you will have 3 rings for focus, zoom and iris.
I’d expect better operability from the NX100.
However, it doesn’t record 4K – based on the specifications I found now…Kind regards