Stephen Mann
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[Frank Tomlin] “First video stream: 6 894 Kbps …
New video stream: 14.8 Mbps,”Encoded filesize is 99.9% determined by the bitrate. You more than doubled the bitrate of the video, and given the shorter time, the numbers sound about right.
Encode your new video at the original bitrate of 6894 Kbps and the resulting file will be smaller.
Steve Mann
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Is this the MP4 file you delivered?
Plays here fine.
If they are losing sync on their PC it is likely underpowered and can’t handle the compressed format fast enough. Or it’s a mac.Steve Mann
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Deja Vu – didn’t you post this a year ago?
I avoid AMD graphics because I have had problems with their drivers in the past. Retired another one just last week.
Also, some plug-ins only use cuda cores (which is unique to nVidia) for GPU assistance.
nVidia just introduced the GTX 680. It has a total of 1536 CUDA cores, runs at 703 MHz core and 1406 MHz clock and a 256 bit memory bus pumping out 196 GB/sec.
I am hoping someone here will try one soon.
Steve Mann
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[Seán Sutton] “a pity one can’t drag a clip from the timeline into a bin”
There are no clips on the timeline.
A subclip doesn’t copy the media, it just creates another pointer to the source media. It is exactly what you want – a reference to a region of the original media, not a copy of the media.
Steve Mann
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I rarely need to do this, but here is how I would approach it.
First, remember that everything on the timeline is an event – not a clip. Your clips are in the Project Media window and the events on the timeline are pointers to the media. You can have an unlimited number of events on the timeline, all pointing to the one media (clip) in the Project Media. (Most editing is one event per media clip which is how events and clips seem to be interchangeable).It sounds like what you want to do is make subclips. To do this, you need to cut the event on the timeline into smaller events that you want to turn into a subclip.
You might want to make a copy of the track where you want to extract subclips. Then when you’re finished making the subclips just delete the track that you chopped into separate events. This way your original track is unchanged.
Steve Mann
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Great minds think alike – just separated by 34-seconds.
Steve Mann
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No – I use Windows Explorer to burn my data discs.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I upgrade the day the next rev is available, and no problems at all.
Steve Mann
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John – I use one of those for my boot drive. Mt docs and libraries are all on an internal D drive. Want a different O/S? Plug in a new drive.
OP – I have an external SATA docking drive on each of my editing PC’s connected through a USB2 port. Plenty fast for my HDV editing. Every project gets its own 1TB drive (prices are finally coming back down. Microcenter was advertising 1TB Seagate Barracudas for $99 last week.)
Advertised drive speed is absolutely meaningless for editing. The advertised speed is the “burst” data rate – how fast can you load or empty the RAM cache on the drive? The only spec that matters to editing due to the large file sizes is the sustained write speed. (Read speeds will always be faster).
RAID arrays are, in my opinion, a waste of money unless you are working with a really large, multi-terrabyte project – or uncompressed 4K HD media.
SSD drives read really fast, but are really slow at sustained write speeds. (Approaching Floppy speeds). Totally useless for editing.
Last – “Green” drives get that definition because they slow down or shut down completely after a brief period of no activity. Not something you want for a video file.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Brad White] “I had to add something to the track otherwise the timecode f/x was not visible”
Use “Empty Event”.
Please note that your method is the timeline timecode. Move the event and the timecode changes.
If you add the timecode F/X to the media in Project Media, then you get the recorded timecode and moving the events on the timeline changes nothing. When you want to remove the timecode, just delete the F/X.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
