Perry Cheng
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Tim and Vince,
Thank you very much for your insights. Just for my stats interest, anyone, can you do some test for me? If you put a HDV (30fps 1040p NTSC Video) on a timeline: Track1 original Video, Track2 25% opacity + Quick Blur; Track3 25% opacity + quick color correction (change some color) & Track4 25% opacity + video distort. What’s the different CPU usage do you get?
I have a QUAD CPU Intel Q6600 (average CPU usage around 40%) with Hardware Acceleration with Nvida GT 240 1G or GTX 260 898MB (I saw not much difference). There is some stuttering as well. BTW, I have 8G RAM, plenty of HDD. If I use software only CUDA preview, I got around 60% CPU usage. Is this the best I can anticipate, with these cards and how about with high end cards?P.S.: I did the hack Vince suggested. I am just curious for a higher end card, does it really get me any better preview effect.
Sincerely,
Perry -
Tim and others,
Yes, I see that on their web site, but is the so called “Mercury Engine” same as CUDA technology? If so, there is a whole list of such cards on NVida web site (see below). The so called “approved” list, does that mean others are excluded?https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html
I guess I am asking, for not so serious users who want the least expensive yet somewhat reliable performance, which one is my best option.
Sincerely,
Perry -
So, no one knows? I checked Adobe’s website, it really did not say much, but I remembered from some of the previous posts, there are actual differences. e.g. image stablizer?
Sincerely,
Perry -
Mike, thanks a lot, I will try your settings. However, recently, I captured a web video, the audio and video is slightly out of sync. Any idea?
Perry
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Mark, you are absolutely correct on everything you said here. Perhaps the chicken is me, not you. I don’t want to bother with writting letters that do no good. On the other hands, you see many many millions of people break this so called “copyright law” and how many cases got reinforced? especially in a personal or even small business level. Yes, everything is down to the risk and your personal conviction, however, if enough people breaks the law and no one is able to really enforce it, do you think the big company care? If they care enough, they should change their practice and provide a mechanism for the common public. I always wonder if someone want to be the middle man for the average consumer and the big companies, I bet they can make lots of $$$$$ by doing so. The revenue these companies lost to the so called copyright law-breakers are significant. I believe many want to do the right thing, but the world is not providing us a mechanism. Again this is my personal opinion only. Thanks for sharing yours.
Perry
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Mark,
Well, your way out certainly works 100% at all time. However, for those who still need to do the “dirty job”, well, I personally don’t think the copyright laws is fair. If those “artists” really care about their copyright, they need to find a way for “average joe” to be able to comply. An average joe is not going to come up with a process that is acceptable the artists. I think I came across more and more music rights company that offer pretty reasonable price for some music, but again, in an actual life event, that is virtually impossible. Let me ask you, in a life event, do you think clients would like a clean-cut music copy on the DVD or a life-environment background music? May I say, there is value in the noise, sometimes. My $.02.Perry
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Mark and Company,
Just curious, please tell me how to proper obtain any legal right to tape an event video with any sort of audio in the background? Pretend you can figure out the name of the songs, what’s your process? I am a newbee, but, has anyone here actually done an event to make $, that has background music playing? Do you follow your suggested process? If so, 100%? If so, how do you stay in business?Sincerely,
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Yes. However, depends what your final product will be. I sometimes use the DVD presets, bring in both DV and HDV footage into it, strinks and pans the HDV footage, and output to DVD.
Perry
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Thanks AnnBen. That’s my conclusion as well. But I do not know what others do here. I know the cost of HDD is no issue anymore, but, as a neat freak, sometimes, I like to clean up my folders. What I end my doing was 1. Create a folder (with other subfolders in it) 2. Backup my clean folder and subdirectories to elsewhere. 3. Write a simple .bat file to delete the “used folders” along with the “preview folders” in another drive, and then copy over the clean one. That way, I don’t have to remember where things are.
REM ******** CAUTION ********
REM ******** PROCEED ONLY if you are SURE your old PremierePro project is NOT needed!! ******rd /s v:\PProFolders
rd /s t:\PProAVPreviewFolder
xcopy t:\PremiereFolders /e V:Thanks anyway.
Perry -
AVI is just a container, download mediainfo to find out its encoder. You must have a decoder in order to play the video. I also encounter in order to import into Premiere, you might also need the decoder installed. However, another safer way, is to convert the file to a premiere acceptable format first. (e.g. mpeg2, .m2t, DV avi…)
Best wish,
Perry