Thomas Leong
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This series on Shatter by Brian Maffitt, now free, may be helpful –
https://www.provideocoalition.com/2_hours_of_free_video_training_on_shatter/
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Depending on whats locked out of your embedded Windows, Windows itself has the ‘Snipping Tool’ for screen captures. Just hit the Windows logo key, and type Sn and it should show.
Following text irrelevant: Other than that, I may have one freeware but it is in the office computer, and being public holidays this whole week, won’t access it till late in the week. Can’t recall the name, and not sure if it will work from a USB/without installation. Shall revert later.
Just remembered what the above-mentioned software is: MWSnap . Download the .zip version to a USB drive, unzip, and open from there. No installation required.
Alternatively, try ‘PrtSc’ key (Print Screen), then open up Paint in Windows, and Ctrl+V to paste the screen capture, then save as you wish.
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BTW, a bit of geography…if anyone in that facebook page says he/she is located in Sabah, that is where Kota Kinabalu is. KK is the capital of the state of Sabah.
Good luck!
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AFAIK, as you are filming within the 4 walls of a building, and provided you are not filming any aspect that may put Malaysia in a negative light, the only permission you require is from the building owner, or in this case, the organisers of the conference who would be responsible for you and the crew’s behaviour, access, etc. If your client is from KK itself, they should be in the best position to get permission from the organisers of the conference.
As for a local crew and equipment, Kota Kinabalu is in East Malaysia. I’m in the west, across the South China Sea! To fly a crew and equipment there would not be cost effective if you can get the stuff from Kota Kinabalu instead. Your best bet would be to try the facebook page of the ‘Malaysian Freelance Film and Video Production Crew’. There may be someone from that area – https://www.facebook.com/groups/mfpc2011/
Thomas Leong
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Andreas,
For a reasonable price, Qlab (for Mac only) is often used by the theatre people for videos. I don’t have a Mac so am not usre if it will do layers. And depending on the Mac, some I understand are able to have 3 outputs (from laptop), else a Matrox Triplehead-to-Go will be required.
For Windows, Dataton Watchout or AvStumpfl Wings will both do multiple layers and alpha-channelled video and/or still pix. There are others but learning curve would be high (eg. Isadora, vvvv). Watchout and Wings both need a reasonably equipped PC (two units in the case of Watchout – minimum one laptop, one desktop; at least an i7 4790 or 6700 and upwards plus SSDs and a mid- to high-end graphics card; an i5 will probably be slightly lacking depending on output resolution(s) required). As the user base is quite large worldwide for Watchout, rental is likely possible depending on your location. AvStumpfl Wings’ rental will very likely be limited unless you are in Europe.
Thomas
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Andreas,
I tried a quick render with HapQ at Quality 0 and Quicktime Player (v7.7.8) will play it, but vlc will not.
Usually, I use Dataton Watchout which supports the HapQ codec to play such files for multi-display output.
Thomas
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Try the Hap codec (google!) – out of the 3 variants, probably HapQ. It encodes under Quicktime, and is meant for playback (i.e. easy for the cpu).
BTW, what media player/server/software are you using to playback the one file ‘split’ over 3 screens?
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Here is a comparison between the 2 cpus: https://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4710HQ-vs-Intel-Core-i7-3960X
One aspect to note is that you reported both running at 3.3GHz in your original post. The 4710HQ base clock is only 2.5GHz, so at 3.3GHz, it is being overclocked. The 3960X base clock is 3.3GHz, in Turbo mode should be 3.9GHz…so it seems to look like you turned off Turbo Mode or Enhanced Turbo in the BIOS?
The 3960X being end of life has dropped drastically in price and the two are closer in price dif now. Down towards the end of the comparison chart under ‘Specifications’, the 3960X does not have 3 Instruction Set Extensions vs the 4710HQ. Wonder if AE uses any of these Extensions in rendering as that may explain somewhat the performance difference.
The last thing that comes to mind is the RAM speed used in the two machines. Are they similar, eg. 1600MHz or is the Desktop using the slower speed of 1333MHz to account for the difference?
Hope you have better luck/answers from Adobe’s Forum.
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Your temps at 50C during the render are good. But it is a head-scratcher that a $300+ cpu with slower single hdd beats a $1000 cpu with faster SSD and hdds.
Q: Have you checked the resultant rendered files? Are they both the same duration, and filesize?
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” Is there some way to “force” it to work harder?”
Forgot this, which you could try –
In Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > select ‘High Performance’ option > then ‘Change advance power settings > and in the popup, scroll down to ‘Processor Power Management’ and in one of options therein (can’t remember which – am on laptop which is different from desktop options), the one that says something like ‘minimum processor state’ = 5%, change it to 100%, and ok your way out. Your cpu cores will now all remain at 100% state even when idling. Might help, might not.