[Philippe Orlando]

No, there is nothing installed. It’s a machine just for editing. Anti virus is out, nothing is running except Vegas with a Q 6770 on a ASUS P5W De Luxe a 500 Gig hard drive 3/4 empty and three LACIE external drive connected to it from where the footage is.

Now could this be that the footage that’s being rendered is coming via firewire from those external lacie drives?

[Philippe Orlando]

Yes, I’m just changing the CPU that’s all!
You might be right

[Philippe Orlando]

Thanks for the two links, the one from Anantech and the Sony site.
The two sites tell me a different story.
From what I read by comparing a Q9650 and an I7 920 on Anandtech is that the I7 920 is not worth the money, since I need a new board and new memory, compared to the Q9650.

But from what Mike says, and what I read on the Sony site, the I7 might be faster? I have the feeling that actually one needs to go with one of the top I7 processors to really see a great improvement over the Q 9650.
Basically for me it’s $270 to buy a Q 9650 Vs $675 to buy an I7 920 + board+ DDR3 Ram, Hum!

[Philippe Orlando]

I appreciate the comments.
I think it makes sense. I’m going to go I7 with DDR3 but stick to windows XP Pro until Windows 7.
So, do you think it’d be a waste to go with a quad 9650, right? I might as well go with an I7 and the X58 motherboard and get ready for the new technology?
Is that I7 that faster than a quad 9650?
Thanks

[Philippe Orlando]

I’ve cut the 1h 20′ in 7 parts and each part rendered beautifully. Nothing was wrong with any clips on the time line. Sony Vegas couldn’t render the whole project. That is kind of a concern to me and I’d say it’s borderline irritating. So here we go, in case somebody reads this: If you have a long clip in Neo HDV, 81 minutes in my case and Vegas freezes at some point in the GOOD or BEST setting, you can go around this by splitting the whole project in several pieces. In my case 7. Of course it’s a bummer!

[Philippe Orlando]

I started the rendering at a different spot, just to see what’s going in on and it froze at 7%!
I have the feeling it’s a problem with the GOOD mode, not my clips.
Very frustrating.
I might have to render the whole piece little by little.
Thanks Mike
Phil

[Philippe Orlando]

Yes, it does stop at the same place, 4% of the rendering or 14% but only when I choose the setting GOOD, when I’m in preview there’s no problem.

[Philippe Orlando]

Thanks Steve, that’s exactly what I needed
P.

[Philippe Orlando]

Mike,

Doesn’t this mean I have to re-encode my Cineform footate into HDV, since I have a Canon XH-A1?
Also, if I do that I’m going to send HDV to a standard monitor, is that the right thing to do?

[Philippe Orlando]

Thanks a lot Steve.
I actually learned in this thread you sent me that the way I’ve been monitoring my footage through the S-video at the back of my graphic car is the wrong way. I think I was even worse as I’m actually monitoring HDV (encoded into Cineform). So basically, I’m wrong to monitor either DV or HDV out of the S-video exit into a Sony PVM 14M4U.

So my question remains:
I have a DELL 2407 WFP-HC that allows me to view the full resolution of my HDV footage. BUT…the colors are not that great. I have Spyder3 Elite, and I don’t think that particular monitor can be calibrated in a decent way.
So I guess my question is the following:
Which monitor for decent color correction?

This one: https://www.abelcine.com/store/product.php?productid=1000228#tabs

or this one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=cart_accessories&A=details&Q=&sku=481526&is=REG
Thanks a lot
Philippe