When talking about frame rate and performance...

LarsHD wrote on 5/18/2009, 1:16 AM

When talking about frame rate and performance an Pro 9, you see posts that reflects prolems and some that say's Pro 9 runs smooth.

When I read these posts the first thing that I want to know is what footage are the posters running in their projects?

Is it 1920x1080 30 fps directly from a 5D2 camera? The original difficult to play MOV files? Or uncompresseded AVI? Or CIneform codec 4.8.6 AVIs?

It makes statements muss less informative / valuable if we do not know what the source material is.

And is the playback fine during streaming of one sìngle video track?

And if so, what's the playback performance during a long dissolve when two video streams are active?

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So all I wanted to say is, that it would be nice to hear *what* is the material you're running when you say that something is good or bad...? ;)

The best and most useful posts I think are those that describe something more like a bug report or at least with a reasonable amount of real data... I think we could all benefit from being as clear as possible...

*It would also help the developers identifying the problems we are having with for instance performance issues.*

Best,
Lars

Comments

xberk wrote on 5/18/2009, 5:01 PM

I agree Lars -- except many of us aren't adept on giving exact techinical specs of the media we are using. Here's the point I'm trying to make on V9. If a V8 veg file runs smoothly on my system, why does it not run smoothly with V9? .. What changed? I'm using the same media coming from the same harddive on the same system.

It would be nice to narrow down exactly what media is causing the trouble -- or what codec is now necessary -- but is this the job of the end user? In fact, most of us expected V9 to SOLVE many of the past problems with media and codec issues so that V9 would run smoothly using a LARGER variety of media. Can you agree this is not the case with V9?

Meanwhile I am trying to narrow things down as time permits so I can use V9 effectively. One thing I'm having to do is reduce the file size of larger JPEGs, meaning 3072x2048 down to like half that size. V8 seem to handle these files better at their original size.