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- Tom Rennen writes:
- >I think SR III has great
- >potential but at present you have to render everything!
-
- Tom, it sounds like you either have an old version of the software or
- have something set up wrong. We only have to render the effects.
-
- >It's also kind of slow.
-
- I agree that its not as fast as I would have hoped. On a 275MHz Alpha, a
- simple cross dissolve is about a second per frame but more complex operations
- can easily be 5-10 seconds (or much more with heavy layering). Some other
- systems out there achieve speeds close to this with much less powerful
- hardware. But DPS's effects accelerator should go a long way to making this
- a null issue....if you have the board slots available :-)
-
- >The reason it renders
- >your video again is to keep sync with the audio.
-
- The whole audio syncing thing has been rather unpredictable. Some systems
- seem to have problems while others work flawlessly. If your system is
- behaving properly, there is no reason to render the video just to keep
- audio sync. We certainly don't.
-
- >Speed Razor has been very useful in editing animation but to it's
- >way too slow for NLE applications.
-
- It would be way to slow if you have to re-render everything. Fortunately,
- that is unecessary on a properly working system. And when DPS ships their
- audio card, these bizarre audio syncing problems, that Tom and some other
- are experiencing, should be taken care of.
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- * Mark Thompson http://www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion *
- * Fusion Films, Inc. mark@fusion.mv.com *
- * Director of Animation and Special FX (603) 424-1829 *
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