VideoStudio 5 is out.

[Dr Mordrid]

Most of the tests so far show that the TBirds are faster clock for clock than the P4's. It'll be neat to see what the Hammer series Athlons will be like

Dr. Mordrid

[wkulecz]

FlaskMPEG has been mentioned.

Has anyone caompared the Intel optimized version vs the standard on PIII/P4

and/or

The AMD optimized version vs the standard using Athenon/Tbird?

I've not figured out anything I need FlaskMPEG for, so I've not installed it, but I did see the three versions on their site when I looked there a few days ago.

--wally.

[Dr Mordrid]

Flask is more an interface by which you can use the Ligos Premiere plugin without Premiere than anything else. Minimally useful if you have TMPGEnc.

Dr. Mordrid

[Hulk]

Dr Mordrid -

I am patiently waiting for someone with a T-bird to run my MS Pro test. One person did run it was a classic Athlon 750 but something is obviously wrong with her system. I am curious if the SSE instructions really do anything in MS Pro. The fact that my Celeron 300 does better than my PIII 850 (clock for clock)leads me to believe they do not. Although those SSE instructions could be helping to cancel the 8.5x multiplier of the PIII 850. Maybe the 3 pipe floating point unit of the T-bird can do something...

wkulecz -

I use FlaskMPEG from time to time to convert MPEG II files to DivX format. The Intel optimized version is useless because the optimizations are for the reference IDCT. Unfortunately Dr. Tom has NOT seen all of the tests around the web that show NO DIFFERENCE between reference output and MMX output. MMX is faster than the Intel optimized reference output so I figured why bother with it.

His tests show that clock for clock even with the Intel optimized version, P4 is still only AS FAST as PIII/T-bird.

[Nick Piercey]

Hi,


Does anyone know whether the

"More than 20 Minutes of Continuous Video Capture: Capture DV video files that exceed the 4GB"
feature of Videostudio 5 will be added to MSPro 6 via a new patch.

It would be useful for TV taping etc...

Regards,


Nick.

[wkulecz]

Hulk,

Thanks for the info. About what I thought about Flask, so I doubt I'll be installing it. I mearly suggested it as potential "head-to-head" comparisons between Athelon, PIII, and P4 with their specific optimization because of the three versions. I was curious about the results if anyone was in a position to do a pair of tests.

Who is Dr Tom? of Tom's hardware site? I've thought he was a turkey from day one.

--wally.

[Hulk]

Tom does stray from his area of expertise when he reviews video editing products but his cpu tests are interesting.

You can find comparisions of PIII vs T-bird at his site here:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/blurb/0...128/index.html

There are a few Flask P4 articles...

[Dr Mordrid]

Mord on VS5's DV support....NICE!....

The seamless DV capture thing (VERY AVI_IO like!) IS just what MSPro6 needs, and they need to extend it into analog captures as well. That feature alone would make a lot of us MSPro6 users happy campers if it made the next patch!

Also VS5 has scene change and time change detection. This allows captures to be separated into pre-cut clips in the Production Library (this doesn't affect the captured *.avi). Batch capture works very well as do timeline DV export. In fact timeline DV export works better than in MSPro6.

There are other project management improvements as well, but I have to get to bed

Since Ulead does use VideoStudio as a testbed for new technologies and MSPro updates it looks like lots of improvements are coming.....

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 14 January 2001).]