Playback framerates

[Roberto Lequeux]

Please post your average fps as seen on your preview windows on the bottom right next to the display size. Many of us will be buying new stations soon and it would really help everyone if you could post what you got under the hood and what you are getting.

Please include as much as info as possible so it means something. The only real way to know what to expect from what you plan to buy would be if we have at least a few posts with all of the following:

1. CPU type and speed
2. How much RAM and speed
3. Video Card
4. Display arrangement
5. 4k/3k/2k footage
6. Draft/Preview/Good/Best
7. Quarter/Half/Full (no Auto please)
8. Pixel Format
9. OS (specify if 32-bit or 64-bit please)

What am I missing?

[jacob thorup]

I've played with v.9 briefly, mainly to try out the red compatibility.
I brought in a 4k .r3d clip, that I downloaded from redrelay.com.

The computer I'm running is a 2.67ghz i7 processor with 2gigs of ram a Geforce 9400gt and a raid 0 setup on windows vista 32bit

it was able to play back at full frame rate when I set the project up for 1080 24p and ran the preview window at preview one quarter.

I added a color curve and 2 secondary color corrections and it still played back at full frame rate. I was quite pleased with this as I will be shooting a couple of films on the RED camera this year and the directors might be cutting one or both of them in Vegas.

[donatello b]

1. CPU type and speed
Q6600 2.4ghz

2. How much RAM and speed
8gigs speed ?? 800?

3. Video Card
Nvidia 8800

4. Display arrangement
1920x1080 LCD .. 2ndary display goes out to HD projector - 8ft screen
note: 64bit V9 cannot send out to projector
32bit V9 can send out to porjector

5. 4k/3k/2k footage
4k clips

6. Draft/Preview/Good/Best
project properties 4k
Draft 1/4 = 23.97
Preview 1/4 = 18fps

project properties 2k ( 4k clips)
preview 1/4 = 23.97
preview 1/2 = 18fps

project properties HD (4k clips)
preview 1/4 = 23.97
preview 1/2= 18fps
good 1/4 = 18fps

7. Quarter/Half/Full (no Auto please)
8. Pixel Format

9. OS (specify if 32-bit or 64-bit please)
Vista 64bit ... installed both 32/64 bit versions of V9
so far no crashes on either ... not seeing a difference on playback ..

10. media storage
internal 2T raid 0

[Richard Andrewski]

1. CPU type and speed

Core i7 920 oc'd at 3.2GHZ


2. How much RAM and speed

12GB DDR3 1600 (running at stock 1066 at the moment--haven't tried much oc yet on ram)


2a. Storage (I think its relevant)

1 TB RAID 0 array of 3 drives striped by Vista


3. Video Card

Leadtek GTX 285


4. Display arrangement

1 28" Hannspree 1920 x 1200 as main screen
1 46" Sharp LCD TV 1920 x 1080 as second screen


5. 4k/3k/2k footage

4K footage


6. Draft/Preview/Good/Best

Preview 1920 x 1080


7. Quarter/Half/Full (no Auto please)

Quarter or Half -- I get 23.976 FPS now after some tuning when just running along a clip with no cuts even with external monitor function engaged. The moment you have a title overlay or transition between two clips, it slows down to 1 or 2 FPS during then back to 23.976 after.


8. Pixel Format

EDIT: 32 bit. Project set to 1920 x 1080 23.976 output


9. Operating system

Multi boot on its own op sys drive: 64 bit Vista Ultimate or 64 bit Windows 7 RC 1 both give similar results for me.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Richard, pixel format is the name of the option under project properties where you can switch from 8-bit to 32-bit.


1. CPU type and speed
Q6600 @ 3.15Ghz

2. How much RAM and speed
4GB @ 1100Mhz

3. Video Card
7950 GX2

4. Display arrangement
Dual 1920 x 1200

5. 4k/3k/2k footage
4k and 2k

6. Draft/Preview/Good/Best
Good

7. Quarter/Half/Full (no Auto please)
Quarter 4k= ~20fps
Quarter 2k= 24fps

8. Pixel Format
32-bit FULL

9. OS (specify if 32-bit or 64-bit please)
XP-32bit

[michael zaletel]

Hey man, what you got under the hood?

:)

-michael zaletel
(shooter)

[Joe Carney]

Hey, I'll looking forward to someone getting one of those new HP Z workstations with dual Xeon nehalims. Vegas 9 64bit can use all 16 (8 real/8hyperthread). Be cool to see what playback and render times they get.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Vegas 9 64bit can use all 16 (8 real/8hyperthread).

Really? Cool! So this is confirmed right? Where did you read that? That will be so-f'ing sweet!
Did they say if that is only for the debayer or would all threads be used by the rest of the functions? My Q6600 gets fully used only for some functions of Vegas and not for others.

If it were for anything, 16 threads at 3.2Ghz with a Red Rocket should then let you do virtually ANYTHING at 1080 preview in RT, even from 5k footage since RRocket was announced to debayer 5k RT. It would really be the perfect Red workflow if you can get perfect color reproduction... I hope there is no other issues... like in output quality, cause this sounds too good to be true otherwise... it would be like editing RC36 as if it were DV :)

Sorry if I am over exited, and more so if I am fudging up something somewhere along this train of thought.

[Thommes Ulfeng]

Hi, on my Laptop there is:

1. CPU type and speed
Core 2 duo, 2,0 Ghz
2. How much RAM and speed
4 Gig Ram
3. Video Card
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
4. Display arrangement
single screen
5. 4k/3k/2k footage
3k footage
6. Draft/Preview/Good/Best
preview
7. Quarter/Half/Full (no Auto please)
Quarter
8. Pixel Format
8bit
9. OS (specify if 32-bit or 64-bit please)
XP-Pro 32-bit

I can play a r3d 3K trough once or twice at 29,8 fps, but then it stutters and turns black. I guess this is a memory problem, since I got this message once on turning Vegas off.

Vegas90.exe - Application error
"The instruction at "0x04d6ecb3" referenced memory at "0xffe0118". The memory could not be "read". Click OK to terminate the program

I find it cool that I am at all able to "turn the crank" on my laptop with r3d files! It aint starting yet, but it will :) Viva Vegas... :P

Should I just swap my memory, or .... any ideas?

Thommes Ulfeng

[Richard Andrewski]

Your definitely going to need more than a gig of ram. XP Pro can read up to 3gb of ram so I would consider upgrading to 3gb.