My new system build.

evm wrote on 8/17/2010, 4:25 AM
I built a new editing system. It has a 8 Sam-sung F3 Spin Point 1TB hard drives. All drives are controlled by an LSI 9650 8i Raid controller. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for tweaking the raid to work better with Vegas. 2 of those drives are for the OS and Vegas; the other 6 drives are for footage. Both units are set up in RAID 0. Just messing around for the first time the yesterday with one HD clip and the effect sparkle applied. This slowed down the clip during play back in Vegas? I could not watch the clip on the FULL setting?

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ushere wrote on 8/17/2010, 5:55 AM
you really don't need raid for hdv...

sorry, you wrote HD, are you using uncompressed?
farss wrote on 8/17/2010, 6:11 AM
When you apply an effect then the CPU speed can becomes the bottleneck. Also if you switch Vegas into either of the 32bit float modes then you also hit the CPU speed.

Bob.
evm wrote on 8/17/2010, 8:24 AM
I am not using uncompressed video. Just hd video from a camcorder. My cpu being usage when playing the clip with the effect is around 24% on an i7 930. About 6 of the 24 gigs of ram are being used. Running 64 bit windows ultimate and 64 bit vegas.
evm wrote on 8/17/2010, 8:24 AM
I am not using uncompressed video. Just hd video from a camcorder. My cpu being usage when playing the clip with the effect is around 24% on an i7 930. About 6 of the 24 gigs of ram are being used. Running 64 bit windows ultimate and 64 bit vegas.
evm wrote on 8/17/2010, 8:24 AM
I am not using uncompressed video. Just hd video from a camcorder. My cpu being usage when playing the clip with the effect is around 24% on an i7 930. About 6 of the 24 gigs of ram are being used. Running 64 bit windows ultimate and 64 bit vegas.
CorTed wrote on 8/17/2010, 8:44 AM
When you apply the sparkle effect it appears that that effect is not designed or optimized to run muliple cores or threads, so only one core is used.
Since you are running an i7 processor with 4 cores, it shows that you are actually maxing out on the CPU side with 24% usage as this means you are running one core at 100%.
This will be the max speed you will see.


Ted
evm wrote on 8/17/2010, 1:04 PM
Ah yes, the logical answer, thank you very much!