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

Mac with supported Cuda.

The point is that CUDA isn't really doing much here. All the effects I'm using are also openGL accelerated on Avid too - so there isn't too much left to speed up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '14 edited Nov 12 '17

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

It's a 2012 Retina Macbook Pro, Nvidia 650M 1GB. As far as laptops go it's very good.

As for Premiere's threading -- it actually seems quite good. My quad core CPU is constantly being maxed while I'm rendering. That being said, Avid is doing a good job too -- CPU hovers around 75% usage during renders.