Stephen Mann
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It depends on the technology. In consumer TV’s, Plasma has the best color rendition. LCD displays with a CFL backlight are the worst. OLED is the pinnacle for correct color control, but the yield is still low for large-screens. Some “LED” backlight monitors only have a ring of white LED’s replacing the CFLs, but they are marginally better than CFL’s. A pro LED monitor will have an LED behind every pixel, and comes close to what you can get from an OLED display.
In general, a consumer TV is a poor reference monitor.
Unless you are delivering product to a cable TV or broadcast destination, your viewers simply cannot tell the difference.
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“every time at the 100% mark.”
Have you used the Windows Resource Monitor to try to determine what process has caused the problem?” Do they really look at these things?”
In aggregate.Steve Mann
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I’ve recorded two cameras at once, but I only had two cameras, but no doubt it would have handles three.
I once daisy-chained a camera and Firewire hard disk drive on a laptop with a single firewire port.
My Presonus DAW uses Firewire.
I can think of many times that I could use more than one Firewire port.
I never saw one, but I understand that there were some studio video monitors with Firewire ports.Steve Mann
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I’m going to make you jealous.
Where I live we have competition between Verizon and Comcast, and very recently, Verizon dropped a bombshell – they are upgrading all subscribers to synchronous connections. WooHoo. I just ran speedtest and am getting 78Mbps down and 39Mbps up. It’s not totally synchronous, but my upload speed is way faster than what I signed up for.Steve Mann
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While you can add as many GPU cards to your PC that the motherboard can handle, it’s a bad idea to mix GPU manufacturers on one PC because you are setting up for possible driver conflicts. If the GPU cards are all from one manufacturer, then you are only installing one driver.
And, yes, your subject line also sounded to me that you were asking about 2 GPU cards on one Vegas machine.
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No LCD monitor is capable of accurately representing colors. White depends on the color of the backlight and black is an illusion because an “off” pixel is not really opaque. (Ever look at a “black” screen in the dark?) Pro LED BackLight LCD Monitors replace the CFL backlight with three LED’s per pixel (consumer LED backlights replace the CFL with one RGB LED matrix to backlight a block of LCD pixels). This solves the two main reasons that you cannot correctly calibrate any LCD display that has a CFL (Cold Fluorescent) backlight. With an LED backlight, you can at least get closer to black and white pixels.
An LCD TV makes a lousy monitor for color purposes. It’s a TV first and full of compromises to make TV shows look better. The computer input is a convenience to replace the photo album on the coffee table. If you think that using a TV as a reference monitor is good enough for delivery to a TV, have you ever noticed the variations between TV’s on the wall at Best Buy even when showing the same program?
A consumer LCD monitor calibrated with a spectrophotometer (like the ColorMunki) is quite sufficient for web and even DVD delivery.
The bottom line is that you should always deliver the most accurate colors that your setup can afford, and let the end viewer adjust their TV’s if they don’t like the colors. Don’t start the process with an unknown calibration in a consumer HDTV.
Steve Mann
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In general, shoot and edit in the highest resolution that your hardware will support. Only resize the output when you encode for the disc.
Steve Mann
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First, reinstall Vegas to undo the damage done by the K-Lite codec pack. K-Lite is an indiscriminate “solution” that replaced codecs that Vegas had installed.
If Vegas can’t handle the MP4 file without errors, then it’s important to know what codec made the file.
Easier yet, why not simply recode the audio track to a more machine friendly format.
You can then mute or delete the original track.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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