Stephen Mann
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3X faster than what?
Keep in mind these are Marketing talking points. While a better GPU could help, you will still see more bang for the buck with a faster processor. Remember the GPU can only work with data as fast as the processor can send it. Adding a $5,000 top of the line nVidia card to an old Core2 processor would be like teaming a Clydesdale with a mule.Would it help? Probably. CUDA acceleration is new to Vegas with Version 11 and the user community just doesn’t have enough experience with it to make this kind of blanket prediction.
Steve Mann
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Most people when HDV first came out used proxy files. One of the easiest tools is the Vasst Gearshift. (https://vasst.com/store/sony-vegas-plug-ins/gearshift.aspx)
With Gearshift, you edit in a low-resolution AVI file (low compared to the HDV), but when you encode your output in the “Render As” menu, Gearshift replaces the loe-res proxy with the original HD clips.
Others use an intermediate CODEC like Cineform and transcode the HD video into a less compressed format that is easier on the CPU.
Or, like me, I just built another PC around the i7-2600 chip.
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Like I said, the thread that Vegas is waiting for is meaningless in this context. But if you kill the thread then Vegas will resume, and if you’re lucky, crash with a more meaningful error message.
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[Paul Gilmore] “i’d love to go tapeless however doesn’t that mean buying new equipment?”
Well, yes.
I bought a pair of Sony HVR-DR60 Record Units with my Sony Z7 cameras. They weren’t cheap, at the time they were about $900 each after rebates from Sony. It’s discontinued now, but there’s one on eBay for $500.I like the HVR-DR60 because I can shoot up to 4.5 hours non-stop. Since a lot of my projects are multi-camera stage events that easily last 3- to 4-hours, I don’t have to stop for a tape change.
If I were buying now, I would probably look at a Sony HVR-MRC1K memory recording unit, but it has a significant handicap: you can only plug in one memory card. So, after the card is full you still have to stop recording for a card change.
Steve Mann
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Describe your “freeze”. Do you just get the spinning icon or a white screen?
When it freezes, go to Windows Start and enter “resmon”. In the resource monitor under either the CPU or Memory tab, find Vegas in the Processes windows. Right click on it and select “Analyze Wait Chain”
If the process is waiting on something, there will be a list of threads waiting for something to happen. Unfortunately, the thread number doesn’t help us here. But you can terminate one or more of the waiting threads and maybe, just maybe, Vegas will give you a more meaningful error message.
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
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A quad-core and only 4Gb of RAM is close to the minimum that I would ever try editing any HD format. My prior editing PC was just that and it would handle AVI files from the PD-150 just fine, but it was just not fast enough to keep up with the HDV from my Z1’s, and crawled under the decoding weight of AVCHD.
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
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Vegas thrives on processor horsepower. The more cores and threads the better.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Paul Gilmore] “I mainly shoot weddings and I shoot in SD reason being is the HD tapes are just to expensive for a wedding unless the client is willing to shell out the $$ for it which majority aren’t”
Don’t fall for the hype from the tape dealers. Many people use Sony Premium MiniDV tapes in both HDV and SD cameras. But, don’t switch tape brands. You are doing your clients a disservice by shooting in SD when you have HDV available. In general, shoot and edit in the highest resolution available to you and down-convert to the delivery format as late in the process as possible. Most likely when you encode the MPEG2 file for DVDA.
Better yet, go tapeless. In the long run you will be very happy.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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So many issues in that post.
[dan wilson] “any way for a quick render and good compression? or at least quick render and a program that can compress with no quality loss?”
First, there is no such thing as lossless compression. The very act of compressing the file means something is being thrown away.
Second, file size is DIRECTLY related to the encoding bitrate. The higher the bitrate, the higher the quality, and the larger the file. If you want a smaller file, encode with a lower bitrate and accept the quality hit.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I am not a big fan of RAID systems, mostly because they don’t add anything to the editing process, so I have no input on the G-Tech box.
However, I have a couple of dozen PATA drives (350-500Gb) that are in a box in the basement. I have considered building a RAID NAS box just to use them.
Bot, back to your issue.
I can’t imagine how a non-green drive would slow down with use. Could there be a cache in RAM filling up?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com