Randall Raymond
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Research whether Vegas can take advantage of quad-core chip. As I understand it, programs must be written to take advantage of a quad-core chip. Which Vegas is not – correct me if I am wrong.
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[Wadro] “Can you apply more effects and get 30 fps previews at full resolution? What i’m trying to get at, is more processor power better for previewing the video.(not rendering speed)”
Short answer is yes. The video card is not called on to process color correction or any other filter you may apply to a clip (and there may be many on the same clip). It’s the CPU sending the processed image to the video card. The faster the CPU – the more FPS of filtered video.
Previewing is merely rendering on-the-fly – the real test of a computer system. An $80,000 Avid system still has to render if enough filters are applied. So do we if you want 30 fps in preview. Same world – no magic.
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I’m building essentially the same system as John – same Intel board and CPU for editing. A Zeon set-up seemed superfluous since the E6600 IS like having two processors. I should have it finished this week. A comparable system by a computer manufacturer is at least a thousand dollars more than what I spent.
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[jsteinamite] “Now for dpi. Does it makes sense to lower the dpi of images in order to speeed up the computer even more?”
DPI is about scanning resolution. 720×534 pixels is what you need to create a graphic in Photoshop to fill a 4×3 screen. You can set the cropping tool in Photoshop and, regardless of the scanning resolution, you can crop a photo and arrive at those dimensions to fill the screen. Or create a new document in photoshop and drag your graphic into that and scale to fit.
Pixels are pixels, which is to say, they are measurements of real distance, like inches. But they are scaled, depending on the monitor or screen onto which they are shown.
Bottomline: if you scan to fill up the 720×534 space – you’ll do fine. That means small photos require a higher scanning resolution (like 300dpi) and large photos will do fine with a lower scanning resolution. A typical snapshot will work fine at 100-200 dpi.
Just remember those dimensions. Wide screen is 864×480 ntsc. Pal is a little different – but, then again, so are the French. 😉
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Go for a dual core cpu – and a modern motherboard – any pci-x video card will do fine. (unless you’re doing maya video designs – 3D stuff with lots of shading, etc.)
Intel is the leading the speed game for editing and encoding at this time…
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[JerryW] “(We all know what happens when a bank robbery goes bad. We’ve seen that a thousand times. For a change, you haven’t seen what happens in this movie a thousand times.)”
Now you’re talkin’. The trick is to match the pace of your movie in the condensed form of the trailer…then double it!
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Yeah, I uninstalled media manager – I think there were three references to it in XP’s un-install program. Then make sure MM is disabled in Vegas and all should be well. Hope it solved the problem.
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Un-install it.
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Bad trailer for what, looks like, some decent acting.
Good trailers tell you what the movie is about, and persuade a person to buy or rent it.
Ditch this trailer. Start over with a VO that begins: “What happens when a bank robbery goes very wrong…?” Re-edit the whole thing.
(The zoom in on the bag of coke in the trunk is an insult. Like we couldn’t figure out a plant when we see one.)
Hint: take a real hollywood trailer and match it – if you did 30 cuts, a hollywood trialer would do 100 in the same time frame. Try it – as a study.
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Vegas is not the problem – I think it’s that other thing…you know, the media thingie. Is anyone using it???