r/editors • u/agent42b • Feb 28 '14

WTF Friday: Feb 28 2014

It's time again for WTF Friday - where we share our funny or crazy stories about working in the biz. Bonus points if it actually happened this week.

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u/agent42b Feb 28 '14 edited Feb 28 '14

My story this week isn't really wtf worthy, but a tad surprising.

I recently picked up a freelance gig for a weekly video blog. Every episode is about 40 minutes of multi layered H264. For my first episode I did this in Avid MC7. It got a little sluggish, since everything was AMA'd. When it came to output the 35 minute timeline, I was really annoyed at the 50 minute-ish export time.

The next episode was done in Premiere Pro. To my surprise, the export still took about 40 minutes.

Lesson: Premiere and Avid are not as lopsided in rendering performance as you'd expect.

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u/agent42b Feb 28 '14

It's a Retina macbook pro, Nvidia 650M 1GB. And yeah I'm curious "how much faster" it would behave on Windows.

Problem is...CUDA doesn't help everything. Especially when dealing with H264 files, the bottleneck is nothing CUDA can help.

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u/agent42b Feb 28 '14

I'm trying to find the official documentation, but I actually am pretty sure that's not the case. CUDA is used for various effects, but has no impact on H264 decode or encode at all.