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[Arash Monjazeb] “I’d prefer to do the encoing directly from Vegas so that I don’t have to go through two steps.
Any products you know of that do a better H264 encoding?”Sure. Vegas. Version 6.0d includes the MainConcept H.264 encoder.
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I am not sure that Quicktime 7 will show in the Vegas render menu, you might have to render to DV-AVI from Vegas and then convert to whatever you wanted to convert to using QT7 with from the QT player. This is relatively easy to do, but…
Why would you? QT7 is of horrible, horrible, horrible quality on the Windows platform at least. I have been able to do about two renders with it, and they were both poor, took an enormous amount of time, and in general were not worth it.
If you need to render to some QT format, I’d recommend getting another product. The only feature I saw (this was before it was as good in Vegas as it is in 6d) was the H.264 encoding, and quite frankly, I can’t think of any worse experience with any piece of software of any kind than the one I had with trying to make QT7 encode som H.264.
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I got it, and I answered you in an email…
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Mail it to terjeber at gmail
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There is something weird going on, as the other guys are saying, most likely your monitor or something. Can you capture a few seconds of video and put it on a web- or ftpserver somewhere?
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There must be quite a difference between those systems to render 4X as fast. Normally, the most you could expect from simply adding another core would be 2X, usually less – like around 1.3X.
You are correct that there are differences. There is not a lot of difference in raw CPU speed (MHz), the AMD is only .2 GHz faster. There are a few thing that makes it this much faster though.
1) AMD is generally faster, MHz for MHz than Intel. Some times significantly faster.
2) The AMD has two cores, and therefore can run more in parallell.
3) Each core has a significantly (1M) larger L2 cache than the Pentium, this means that there is far less memory access with the AMD than with the Intel.
4) The AMD PC uses faster memory than the Intel PC, and the memory is on a faster bus.
5) The AMD has an on-chip memory controller making memory access faster than the Intel system which has a separate, on motherboard, memory controller.
These are probably the most significant factors making the AMD that much faster than the Intel system.
Since I do all my rendering at low priority in the background
I am not sure I would set my render to low priority, but that is entirely up to you. With a dual core system I might set the CPU affinity for Vegas to one CPU only.
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I switched from a single core, Intel Pentium running at 2.4GHz to an AMD 4400 dual core. Just to test it, I rendered a clip in Vegas on the old PC, rendering time was about 1 hr 18 min. I then rendered the same project with the same settings on the new box, the rendering time was 20 min. So, yes, depending on your definition of “world” of course, there was for me a world of difference.
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Filming monitors is hard. I have had some success with a variable shutter cam, point it at the monitor, change the shutter speed until it stops rolling. It doesn’t always work perfectly, if at all.
My recommendation for getting stuff off the monitor is to use a screen-capture program like Camtasia which can capture to AVI. You can then drop that onto the timeline. If you need to have the monitor show as a monitor however and not just it’s content, this will not work.
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I love my AMD box, and it works fantastically well with Vegas. I understand the new Intels are catching up, but I have not tried them yet. No problems with the AMD though, and it is fast, fast, fast.
2G of memory should be plenty, you probably won’t see much (if any) difference if you double it. The money can be spent better elsewhere…
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Sorry, no, I do not know why they are not compatible, not without additional information. Given their format I assume they are downloaded. Some of the stuff you find online, particularly from Asia, is encoded in exceedingly weird ways with very strange codecs. I do not know why.
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