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Does SSD reduce render time significantly?
It depends entirely on the type of rendering you are doing and the specs of your computer. Bottle necks can occur in many different parts of the rendering pipeline. Generally speaking, rendering is ...
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How to set up a 3-screen video installation to sync correctly?
The Matrox graphics card is probably the easiest and most versatile approach. I use the TripleHead2Go, which as you'd assume sends a signal(s) to up to three monitors/projectors.
Multiple computers ...
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What part should I buy to render videos?
CPU's used to render graphics was a very very long time ago. GPU's surpassed CPU's for this almost 20 years ago. You absolutely do need to get a good graphics card, yes. Don't look for anything ...
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Is there something like nvenc for free codecs (VP8/9)?
There is a hardware-accelerated VP8 encoder recently released by the University of Milan. Source and standalone binary for 64-bit Linux and compute 3.5, 5.0 and 5.2 capable NVidia GPU cards available ...
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Are there Tripods to film the bottom when writing on a paper?
There are a number of photo tripods that allow you to invert the center column. When inverted, the camera sits between all the legs and can be pointed down. Another tripod design has a center column ...
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What does an external video recorder like a Ninja offer?
If you record (typical AVCHD) sub-30 Mbps 4:2:0 video to a card and 220Mbps 4:2:2 video to an external recording device, you will be hard pressed to tell the difference when you view it back on ...
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How to set up a 3-screen video installation to sync correctly?
I was in same situation when I started my project in 2014. After a lot of research i found a very good solution.
I am running three projectors and one monitor on one computer so total 4 outputs i am ...
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Video archive solution
I haven't ever done exactly what you're trying to do, but I think I know how I could do it. Hopefully this answer is useful, or at least starts some discussion from people that do have more concrete ...
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What part should I buy to render videos?
Are you in search of a "solution" when you appear to have NOT identified a "problem"? Are you editing video now? Is it too slow for what you need? Are you making artificially unreasonable ...
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Should I be concerned about overheating when doing long render tasks?
First answer to "My question is if this heavy workload will decrease the life of my computer."
Simply YES,
BUT any work on a computer will decrease its life, but it does depend on the work being ...
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V-mount and D-tap power problems
To anyone who has similar questions, I think I solved it. Pay attention to voltage inputs to your devices. The blackmagic monitor I was using has a power input of 12v using the two-pin barrel ...
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Sharp drop in FPS while recording
Most screen capture applications are pulling video from the video card down to main memory to compress it and write it to disk. Most video games are uploading textures and geometry to the video card ...
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How to set up a 3-screen video installation to sync correctly?
As you want to play three different videos, daisy-chaining projectors or copying the signal using an amplifier is not viable.
Machine
While you can get one machine to play to three different ...
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How to set up a 3-screen video installation to sync correctly?
I did a 3 screen art installation in a hotel lobby some years ago. The original system used media players in a rack with converters to pass DVI over cat5 cable. There was a control computer to keep ...
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Which graphic card to buy
Those are all very similar in terms of performance. I'd take the EVGA GeForce GTX 970, but other people will tell you something else.
One recommendation: Samsung SSDs are severely overpriced. People ...
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Yongnuo YN 160S - how to get inside?
Well, I'm an idiot, or was just really tired the first time I looked things over, because after taking another look today I realized that the shallow circular indentations at the corners of the face ...
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How h265 settings / presets affects the target device cpu while decoding and how can I tweak them?
Try Encoding using "--tune fastdecode" and also check if "Average Bitrate" with "2 Pass" is better than "Constant Quality" with your particular Decoder; trying to maintain Quality over Bitrate can ...
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What is more important number of CUDA cores on GPU or VRAM for video editing and graphics?
It depends entirely on which software you are using, as well as plugins. Adobe Premiere takes advantage of CUDA, which radically increases rendering speeds and playback of specific file types.
But ...
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How to shoot my whole life from first POV?
I don't think that you really thought this through thoroughly. (what a sentence!)
On a serious note tho, it would mean that you always have to carry around batteries on you, enough for at least while ...
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Unknown coaxial cable female end. smaller than RCA or BNC. White rim
That's a barrel connector, as you say most often used for DC power connections. I doubt that it has an ideal impedance profile for 75 ohm video connections, but that probably doesn't matter in your ...
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Physical difference between ISO and gain
ISO stands for the International Standards Organization. They standardize all kinds of stuff, including film stock for photography, cinematography, and digital video. If you're using a digital ...
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Do i really need a Super-Computer to edit Videos?
Most likely, the issue is with the codec you're trying to edit. Temporal compression schemes require a lot of on-the-fly processing to decode. Players are optimized to do this sequential decode, but ...
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Do i really need a Super-Computer to edit Videos?
Research how to use proxies. Proxies are copies of your original footage encoded at lower resolution, lower quality, or just in a less processor-intensive codec. You use them while you're working on ...
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What part should I buy to render videos?
If by 'render videos' you mean exporting video files from editor and compositing apps, then the CPU is still primary. Yes, many apps/encoders do use CUDA/OpenCL APIs to use the GPU to render videos ...
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CPU Selection for video encoding
A big question is will your encoder use multithreading.
I have a dual E5-2697 v2 System, 48 Cores.
So if I need to just encode video which does not or cannot, due to effects applied, use the GPU (...
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CPU Selection for video encoding
The DV encoder used in the cited test is useless for gauging modern CPUs.
I ran the test command with the referenced media on a 4-core i5 and the difference between -threads 4 and -threads 3 is 0.5% ...
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Multi-source, picture-in-picture live stream
Like @screaming-drills say's: this can be done with softwares like Wirecast and OBS.
You could also get very expensive hardware to do the same eg. from Blackmagic Design, I would however look at the ...
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Multi-source, picture-in-picture live stream
Investigate some of the software switcher products such as "V-Mix". Or some of the computer-based integrated products like NewTek "TriCaster". They will handle many more inputs than even the large (...
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What are the pros and cons of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 for video editing?
As you mentioned, mobility would be your biggest pro by far. With the Surface Pro with highest specs (as you mentioned), you'll get a very competitive machine. The biggest thing you'll be missing (...
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Adobe Premiere Pro / After Effects Hard Drive Scratch Disk and Cache set up in temporary situation.
Personally, I would ditch the usb3 drive for editing. Assuming you can't buy a third drive I would do your setup like this.
Do a two drive setup.
C: OS and media cache
d: (raid) Media, projects, ...
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