VEGAS
I drop a 5D2 file on Vegas timeline
It plays back at 13 fps.
I add a *.psd file on the timeline and add a drop shadow
It now plays back at 5 fps
I add some zooming in on the psd image
Playback totally stuttery
Acceptable and enjoyable? Unacceptable of course. Who likes working at 13 fps and at 5 fps?
PP CS5
The 5D2 file plays back at full frame rate (Cuda!)
I add the psd file and add drop shadow
It plays back at full frame rate
I adda some motion to the psd file (incl 3D motion)
Playback is fludi and smooth
Perfect!
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Same PC for both:
Q6600
8 gb ram
W7 - 64 bit
Asus P5KR mobo
Raid-0 Velociraptor 10k
Now instead of 5D2-footage let's feed Vegas with MXF or Cineform.
This puts even greater demand on hard disk streaming - more megabytes per second to stream.
But even with good streaming still stuttery... And still stuttery when moving text over dissolves etc.
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So same PC can give really excellent result and can give crappy performance.
Something bad about the camera 5D2-footage? Not really. WIth a NLE that can play it I don't see any disadvantages. Great *NOT* having to transcode it to Cineform. Great not having to transcode to MXF.
1 GB of 5D2 footage = approx 2 GB of Cineform.
For this little project I'm working in now I have 58 GB of 5D2 footage.
Not doing the editing in Vegas saves me some 110 GB hard disk space and many hours of transcoding etc.
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With the MOV-files in my case ( 5D2 files) the hard drive only needs to stream half the amount of data compared to for instance when using Cineform.
So more streams can be streamed from a normal drive and dissolves will still be smooth.
So if you *HAVE* native camera footage that is OK, why not enjoy the good things about it? Why transcode it to something else and get bigger files? Especially when the end result *still* is stuttering...
Lars
I drop a 5D2 file on Vegas timeline
It plays back at 13 fps.
I add a *.psd file on the timeline and add a drop shadow
It now plays back at 5 fps
I add some zooming in on the psd image
Playback totally stuttery
Acceptable and enjoyable? Unacceptable of course. Who likes working at 13 fps and at 5 fps?
PP CS5
The 5D2 file plays back at full frame rate (Cuda!)
I add the psd file and add drop shadow
It plays back at full frame rate
I adda some motion to the psd file (incl 3D motion)
Playback is fludi and smooth
Perfect!
===========================================
Same PC for both:
Q6600
8 gb ram
W7 - 64 bit
Asus P5KR mobo
Raid-0 Velociraptor 10k
Now instead of 5D2-footage let's feed Vegas with MXF or Cineform.
This puts even greater demand on hard disk streaming - more megabytes per second to stream.
But even with good streaming still stuttery... And still stuttery when moving text over dissolves etc.
-----------------------------------------------
So same PC can give really excellent result and can give crappy performance.
Something bad about the camera 5D2-footage? Not really. WIth a NLE that can play it I don't see any disadvantages. Great *NOT* having to transcode it to Cineform. Great not having to transcode to MXF.
1 GB of 5D2 footage = approx 2 GB of Cineform.
For this little project I'm working in now I have 58 GB of 5D2 footage.
Not doing the editing in Vegas saves me some 110 GB hard disk space and many hours of transcoding etc.
===========================
With the MOV-files in my case ( 5D2 files) the hard drive only needs to stream half the amount of data compared to for instance when using Cineform.
So more streams can be streamed from a normal drive and dissolves will still be smooth.
So if you *HAVE* native camera footage that is OK, why not enjoy the good things about it? Why transcode it to something else and get bigger files? Especially when the end result *still* is stuttering...
Lars