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@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

@JaredBusch said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.

I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265

Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265?

The devices. I try to use h.265 whenever I get the choice.

This is not a good choice. You want to edit in a format that is easy to decode and H.265 is not. So to be able to edit you either have to re-encode your H.265 video clips into another format (aka transcoding) suitable for your editor or suffer much slower editing performance.

If you shoot in H264 you can probably edit it directly without much impact. The editing software will re-encode it on the fly.

H.265 is a delivery format.

GoPro says h264 only for legacy older devices. H265 is their editing format.

H265 works fine on newer hardware.

Our Lula, the 12 year old Boston Terrier got adopted today. We are so sad to see her leave.

Sister, Sister with Liesl

Among Us

My daughter Ciana is playing too.

GoPro?

Trying to set a microphone level on a Windows 8.1 machine for a Logitech USB headset. At 100, it has way too much gain and is blowing the sound out. We need to set it to 42 to sound right. If you open the mixer dialogue and set it to 42, it sounds great. But the moment you do anything from making a call, opening an application, even just reopening the mixer dialogue, you can hear it jump to 100 and when you look at the setting, obviously it is 100.

We can't find any way to get Windows to respect the setting and leave it at 42.

Youtube Video

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ugh, this computer replacement took about 3 hours to long thanks to snowflake government software.

Is that the software used by the princess from Frozen?

GoPro Hero 9 arriving tomorrow!

@Mario-Jakovina said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

During your video editing, CPU/GPU are not that critical. But during final export (encoding), CPU/GPU should always work at 100% utilization.

It's awfully handy having real time rendering, it's amazing how much easier it is to find problems when you have that.

@JaredBusch said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.

I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265

Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265?

The devices. I try to use h.265 whenever I get the choice.

I bet you will find that the cli password still works. Its likely a GUI issue.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Murder She Wrote with Liesl

S1E5

Watching more of this with Liesl and the two older dogs.

First season a kid at a dining room table delivers a single line and I'm like "OMG wait, that's Joaquin Phoenix!"

https://mangolassi.it/tags/cloudatcost

Quite a few good topics in there.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got my once every 6 month CloudAtCost email. Somehow it always bypasses my spam filtering

I know that experience.
They were told specifically to cancel my account and delete it (I wasn't subscribed to any of their spam lists at the time either).

All was good for several months, and then HELLO! the spam started arriving.

Unsubscribing does nothing, you have to login/change your preferences and completely change eveything in the account.

Use a random password generator for the email address...

Are they any good, their prices look cheap, what's the catch, apart from only having a CA based datacentre (long way from Oz).

I wouldn't call it a "data center", pretty sure it's like whitebox desktops in a garage. It's definitely nothing running on servers.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got my once every 6 month CloudAtCost email. Somehow it always bypasses my spam filtering

I know that experience.
They were told specifically to cancel my account and delete it (I wasn't subscribed to any of their spam lists at the time either).

All was good for several months, and then HELLO! the spam started arriving.

Unsubscribing does nothing, you have to login/change your preferences and completely change eveything in the account.

Use a random password generator for the email address...

Are they any good, their prices look cheap, what's the catch, apart from only having a CA based datacentre (long way from Oz).

Entire thing is a scam in every sense. For a time, it was the top topic on the community. They were really active here. It's not a production system, their prices are fake, the performance is unusable, it's like Liquid Nitrogen Overclocking.... entire thing was a scam top to bottom. Parent company tried to disavow them as it was that bad that it destroyed their reputation, too.

@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

But I would makes sure to use a hardware/software combination that can do GPU/CPU offloading if possible and is suitable for the formats you need to work in. Anyway, camera, editor and hardware need to be considered as a system.

Well I'm using everything on an A10 with a fraction of this CPU performance and essentially no GPU performance today. Moving to the supported NVidia GPU rendering, and doubling for sure and easily tripling total CPU performance, it's hard to believe that this won't work well. Maybe not ideal, but SO much better than what I've been doing.

@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.

I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265, all 4K and 5K.

@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:

Can the software you use do GPU offloading?

Yes

I need to upgrade my desktop for video editing. My current rig is right at the breaking point doing 4K videos, and my 5K camera arrives as early as tomorrow. I don't need anything crazy, I'm on an A10 now. I'd really like a Ryzen 5, though. Or better, of course.

Found this and thought that it looked good.

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-Computer-Processor-TG01-0030/dp/B07XV7YRSL/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=desktop+ryzen+5&qid=1600367051&sr=8-6

Will run Ubuntu / Pop_OS of course. KdenLive and OpenShot are my tools. This is more than double my current CPU power, and adds the discrete GPU. I'll need to add 8GB more of RAM, of course, but that's trivial. Thoughts?

Clients in Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Jose all reporting Comcast network issues at the same time.

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Mine 2nd Childhood Home Sold after a week of being on the market.

But It's staying in the family, so I'm not worried about it.

what house you talking about?

my Dad's House. (Edit - My House as of Oct. 15th)

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Mine 2nd Childhood Home Sold after a week of being on the market.

But It's staying in the family, so I'm not worried about it.

what house you talking about?

my Dad's House. (Edit - My House as of Oct. 15th)

Where is your dad moving to?

somewhere is a couple acre's of Land and away from the city. He hasn't found a place yet.

So he's now living with you...

No, I haven't closed on the house yet. I close on the 15th then will rent to him until he finds a house.

LOL - funny how the tables turn....

So Nancy will be living alone after that?

Yes, But I'll be close enough to Check in on her and take care of stuff around the house for her like normal .

Maybe now she's actually get to clean the house out... so much old junk she just needs to get a dumpster and be rid of... or have a garage sale - all those people who passed and left their stuff to her...

we have a dumpster coming tomorrow, lol

Name it 2020, toss in some gasoline and throw the match.

Murder She Wrote with Liesl

S1E5

You can test on any individual machine by using the hosts file to see if it fixes things.

@siringo said in Meshcentral Agent creation?:

have a Hyper-V server at one site, the physical server can be seen in MC, but the VM it hosts can't be seen.

Has to be a networking layer thing.

@siringo said in Meshcentral Agent creation?:

yep all dns ops work/resolve, everything is pingable.

Then likely there is a firewall or other problem, not a DNS one. So using the IP address will likely not work.

@siringo said in Meshcentral Agent creation?:

I'm working with devices in a private network, most devices run in a windows domain called domain.local, however some devices run in remote offices with different windows domains, EG: site1.local.
My Meshcentral server is located in domain.local and called mesh.domain.local.

The first part is part of Active Directory. The second is the URL of the MC server. There's no relationship.