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From: Mark Thompson <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Raptor, PVR, SpeedRazor Mach setup
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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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