Dumb Idea.......

Sonisfear wrote on 10/10/2005, 10:10 PM
Here is a dumb idea but if Vegas staff or thirdparty programmer could do it I would pay big bucks for it.

Microsoft and Sony are soon to release rediculously powerful gaming machines in the $400.00 range that you could not buy even if you wanted too for thousands of dollars.

Xbox 360 I think has 3 x 3.2 ghz cpu on a dualtreaded motherboard wrap in a delious tiny white case...

PS3 has some sort of quad cell technology

Both have nasty rendering power.
Why not write a render agent program for these one or both units?

I would run out and buy 4 in one shot. imagine the rendering farm power of that for $1,600.00 bucks.

I would pay an extra $100.00 (don't make it to expensive now) just for the render agent app for eeach machine.

Comments

p@mast3rs wrote on 10/10/2005, 10:47 PM
ha ha. I know something you dont know. <grin>

Lets just say that harnessing all of the newffound power of the XBOX 360 will be here when the boxes drop. All encoding and rendering will get much much quicker. Thats all I can really say at this point.

Patience grasshopper.
Grazie wrote on 10/10/2005, 11:40 PM
So . .. Vegas works, and was always waiting for the hardware to get up to "speed"? Does this mean rendering AND previewing using an external, budget-end box? Koooollll . . .

Grazie
farss wrote on 10/11/2005, 12:05 AM
And Wetta have just spent a trillion dollars to enlarge their render farm.
But I think the biggest problem isn't the CPU power it's getting the data back and forth. Rendering CGI stuff is a much different problem. The source files are relatively small, moving them out to a farm is simple, moving a few rendered frames back from each machine isn't too much of a strain either.
But a 20 track composite is another matter entirely, that's 20 frames of video to get sent to the one CPU and one frame to come back for each frame of output. That's where I suspect the bottleneck comes from.
Of course if Vegas were to use the power of the GPU some things would run a lot faster.
Bob
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/11/2005, 5:58 AM
> Lets just say that harnessing all of the newffound power of the XBOX 360 will be here when the boxes drop.

I don’t know what you know Patrick, but I recently had to call Microsoft XBox support because my son’s XBox stopped working :( I spoke with one of the Managers there because I wanted to know how to copy the data from the harddrive of the old XBox to the new one. He said it couldn’t be done on the current machines but if you’re thinking of buying a new home computer, wait until the XBox 360 comes out. So reading between the lines, I have a feeling there is a lot more to these devices than just playing games and watching movies.

> PS3 has some sort of quad cell technology

That’s the IBM Cell processor jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. It can have up to nine (9) cores on one chip. Newly designed from the ground up as a multi-media processor it’s based on IBM’s PowerPC architecture. The Xbox also have an IBM PowerPC at its core (no Intel chips), which is why backward compatibility was a problem (not sure if they got an Intel emulator working on it or not).

Either of these would be sweet rendering appliances.

~jr
birdcat wrote on 10/11/2005, 7:39 AM
My son is gonna get really upset when I take his new PS3 and tell him I need it for a while....
kentwolf wrote on 10/11/2005, 10:52 AM
>>...Patience grasshopper...

You *must* be over 40. Right? :)
p@mast3rs wrote on 10/11/2005, 12:56 PM
"You *must* be over 40. Right? :)"

Nah, just turned 34 on this past Friday. But not far off from 40 Im afraid LOL.
kentwolf wrote on 10/11/2005, 9:47 PM
You are very young to know about Grasshopper and Cain (aka Kung Fu) :)

It was a mid-70's or so thing...
David Jimerson wrote on 10/12/2005, 6:28 AM
If he's 34, he spent many a youthful afternoon watching an independent TV station which carried things like Kung Fu . . .

I know, because I'm 34, too . . .

: )
Guy Bruner wrote on 10/12/2005, 6:44 AM
Whippersnappers!

Woops, showing my age ;-)