Just got My QUAD! O-M-G!

Tom Pauncz wrote on 12/7/2007, 9:37 AM

Colour me green (with envy, eh?)!!
Good on ya - you deserve it. Do post about your perceptions once you're back in the Vegas world with this awesome beast.
Cheers,
Tom

rs170a wrote on 12/7/2007, 10:04 AM

Welcome to the quad core club Grazie!!
The only "drawback" is that renders are so fast you won't be able to take a coffee / tea / smoke break any more :-)

Mike

Laurence wrote on 12/7/2007, 10:14 AM

OK Grazie, now that you have the firepower, you really HAVE to go HD.

Jøran Toresen wrote on 12/7/2007, 10:36 AM

Grazie, could you please tell us more about the specifications?

Jøran

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/7/2007, 11:06 AM

OK Grazie, now that you have the firepower, you really HAVE to go HD.

4 instances of vegas... all running at once... all rendering mpeg's for DVDA in faster then RT. :D

Grazie wrote on 12/7/2007, 11:44 AM

Oh man! - Is THAT how Vegas should work???

Y'know .. . I had a similar reaction going from P3 WinMisery to P4 XP Pro.

Sorry I had posted te spec of th machine, I will - hey? Just giv me a chance to play with it.

FX-ing is just so darn fast!! I just Colour Graded some HD footage I have been given. O-M-G!!!

I'm viewing colour corrected HD footage via my PAL system onto my PAL CRT!!! Is this possible?? - The QUADie isn't even breaking out into a SWEAT!! O-M-G! . . . I feel like "Janice" from "FRIENDS"! ! ! !

And it is so darn quiet too.

Just adding and building back my software . .

Grazie

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 12/7/2007, 3:11 PM

Welcome to my world, Grazie, I see the baby has arrived.

In the words of our man "Bachman-Turner Overdrive, You ain't seen nothing yet"

Role on 8 Core......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet

Grazie wrote on 12/10/2007, 12:43 AM

O-M-G!!!

Part Deux!

Well, lads and lassies . . ok, only SD, but I have:

1 - 16:9 in a 4:3 project - I want to have the bars top and bottom for a sales thingie.

2 - I have GenMed on 5 tracks

3 - I have 3 lots of sexy timecode FXs running numbers

4 - I have 2 GenMeds coloured backgrounds which in turn have Parent Motion and Compositing layers

5 - One of the GenMEds is a loopy repeat Protype Title also running thru' a series of compositing changes every 4 seconds

OK .. phew . .. Just rendered-out in 1.25 times real time. Well I thought THAT was bloody fast! But I hadn;t noticed that my bleedin' Virus Scanner WAS ALSO working too!!

Seriously, these QUADS, optimised for Vegas(?) is for me the one single gigantic leap forward I've been waiting for.

MADISON - YOU LOVELY PEOPLE!!! - YOU ROCK!!!

What this means is that once again I can lift my sites higher and CONSIDER more layers and interacting tracks.

I'm just bursting - really!!!

Am I gonna bore people with my NOKIA now? Oh yes!

Grazie

DGates wrote on 12/10/2007, 1:38 AM

Sounds promising!

Where did you get the system, and how much did you pay?

Soniclight wrote on 12/10/2007, 2:29 AM

Congratulations, Sire Grazie Dude. May thy quad jets grease thy creative and productive lightening. I'm behind you, only got a measly XP Home on dual (Pentium D). But hey, it's better than the Win 95 233 Mgz I started on back in the olde days :)

Grazie wrote on 12/10/2007, 4:16 AM

DGates, I got the thing built as an upgrade from my existing PC, which had a PS failure. So the price had the additional cost added. I have the parts listed on my specs here, and I would guess can find the equiv parts costs in Burr Ridge, IL - is that correct Burr Ridge? These parts were bought here in the UK.

Sonic, yeah thanks . . loving it!

Grazie

John_Cline wrote on 12/10/2007, 4:54 AM

"MADISON - YOU LOVELY PEOPLE!!! - YOU ROCK!!!"

You might want to thank Intel (and Microsoft), too. :)

Grazie wrote on 12/10/2007, 5:57 AM

Why? Did they have anything to do with it? Nah, surely not John? It was solely the Guys and Gals at Madison. Or are you making a tertiary point? . .Hmmm... now let me think what that point could be . . eh .. no .. you are gonna have to spell it out for me.

Best regards,

Grazie

Grazie wrote on 12/10/2007, 6:00 AM

Oh! BTW John, thanks for putting together that rendertest - it did it 2:02!!! So, for a little while I will be in front of the wave . . .

Grazie

John_Cline wrote on 12/10/2007, 6:24 AM

Grazie,

2:02 for the rendertest is a perfectly respectable score for a Quad. Congratulations!

John

DGates wrote on 12/15/2007, 9:51 AM

How's it handle Magic Bullet filters?

MarkHolmes wrote on 12/15/2007, 10:09 AM

Grazie, good for you! And what kindof Quad Core are you talking about? Is it a Mac Pro? Or one of those HP workstations? Please share you full specs....And I would love to hear what you did to optimize the system for Vegas...

megabit wrote on 12/15/2007, 10:27 AM

My QX6700 runs the HDV renderstest in 1.55min - but only in 8bit video mode. In 32bit, it slows down - actually, rendereing only uses some 50-60% of the CPU resources. Can you confirm this Grazie?

vitalforce wrote on 12/15/2007, 12:29 PM

Kind of like trading in your old hot rod for a flying car, eh?

pmooney wrote on 12/15/2007, 9:37 PM

I've got a dual quad-core machine myself....maybe too much power, but I was trying to future proof myself. Rendering is sweet as is everything else computer related.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 12/16/2007, 12:48 AM

"How's it handle Magic Bullet filters?"

anything other than the original Magic bullet is GPU accelerated and should be fairly problem free regarding playback and rendering, but MB1 is probably not quad core optimized (3rd party plug-ins may not be optimized like Vegas is, and there weren't a lot of multi-core/multi-proc machines running with MB (or magic slug as it's been lovingly referred to by some) when version 1 was being used, but this is not anything I've checked just assumptions I'm making regarding Magic Bullets multithreading in their software rendering process.

Dave

Larry Becker wrote on 12/16/2007, 12:46 PM

Ok, you all got my interest. Didn't think I needed to upgrade my pc just yet, but maybe... I posted a few weeks ago that I couldn't believe how the preview screen and time line in Pro 8a stuttered so much as it played back. Does going to a Quad-core machine stop that?

Thanks,

Larry Becker

Grazie wrote on 12/16/2007, 1:39 PM

Larry? Do a test. If you are getting STUTTERING just by playing back a straight AVI, then most likely you have an issue going on. Tell us when are you getting bad play/preview going on? If you can nail what is causing the stuttering AND if you don't add many FXs, then upgrading to a QUAD would be a tad extreme. Are you considering or presently doing HD work?

Grazie

Larry Becker wrote on 12/16/2007, 6:32 PM

Sorry... yes. Should have put a "total novice" warning on the post...

I recently got a Sony HDR-SR7 AVCHD camcorder. Playing back SD recorded on it is just fine, but even playing clips of the AVCHD material is choppy -- jumping 10-20 frames at a time. Audio is ok. I've tried different settings and no joy. The player that came with the camcorder plays the material just fine, even full screen.
FWIW, I first tried Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 11, which has AVCHD support, and it did the same thing.
My main pc is a 3.4 ghz P4 Dell XPS with 2 gb ram, two 120gb SATA drives in a Raid 0 array, with a 750 gb external eSATA drive. Got a new video card, a VisionTek Radeon HD2600 with 512mb GDDR3 ram.

My laptop is a Dual core Intel 7200 processor with 2gb ram that has a HDDVD drive in it and plays nicely, but stutters with both the Sony and Pinnacle software.

I've been reading about the VASST Gearshift product as a solution... any thoughts? Or is something in my system potentially conflicting?

Sony Tech support suggested rendering to an intermediate codec (like Cineform - is that something Vegas Pro 8 can do on its own?)and substituting it for the HD files when making the final render. I THINK that's what Gearshift does.

Am I going at this wrong?

Thanks,

Larry