Hey markus ! (Check your mails ! ). No idea for Gigapixel. for Veai, there was a contact form to fill, but Gigapixel ? don’t know sorry :(. except asking to the support, i don’t know.
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What are people using to make .avi files from .png files? I have googled and i am not finding anything that is free that works correct and is not command line. ie ffmpeg
I might try that. Makeavi does not work and the colors are off its turning the whole image green then if i try blender and export raw avi the video is black then if i try avi jpeg the image is also black
Thanks. Its funny that i can not find something after 2012 that works correct.
Using a 3080 (and tested with both ‘Studio’ and ‘gaming’ drivers) - why does VEAI 2.4.0 only use between 10% and 20% of my GPU? I’ve tried with memory settings from medium to maximum, as well as selecting and unselecting the ‘reduce load’ option. This is atrocious performance that doesn’t happen with games or CUDA-accelerated workloads, apart from VEAI.
Ok - so I bought a Mac Mini M1 with 16GB RAM. Big improvement in speed compared to my iMac 3.7 Ghz 6-Core Intel i5 with Radeon Pro 580X 8GB.
On a project using Artemis LQ at 100% using 1280x720p video at 59.95 FPS:
- Mac Mini M1 – .14 to .15 seconds per frame.
- iMac – .29 to .30 seconds per frame.
Dramatic difference. I am impressed, especially when the Mac Mini M1 only cost me $800.
So I guess my goal is to setup a workflow with maybe 4 Mac Minis to start – divide a video project into 4 sections and run them at the same time to make it 4x faster. Then combine the files back together like Humpty Dumpty. lol
This would be a game changer if I can find a way to automate this process.
I am curious if there be a noticeable glitch between the frames of each section.
Anyone else looking at a distributed computer setup? These Mac Mini M1s are cheap and use little electricity. It should be fairly easy to write a script to chop a video file up and then reassemble.
Hmmm - now I am worried that previous posts say this software might be dead.
Is there any proof to that?
forget these messages, it was some beta testing person who think that because one dev left the company and that the new beta was taking more time to be done (lot of issues in the beta next to 2.4.0 to fix) that the software was dead.
absolutly not. we’re actually at the 2.6.0b1 beta, already two betas has been released in the previous days, and it’s leading to some very interesting stuff, now and in the future as well 
Try an another software to see the use of our graphic card, (ask someone here, i don’t know which one) but the windows one has never been good with VEAI and show less that what’s really happen.
Oh this is great to hear.
I’ve done several projects already with 2.4.1 and my clients have been extremely happy. I just need to get my render times down with I guess a little farm of Mac mini M1s.
the render are a bit more quick on the artemis (new version) and on depending of the gear used, chronos is much faster too.
i’m not on a typical gear (i use iGpu the gpu from my processor and an old one (i7-7700), so i’m in a different league than everybody else, but it’s what has been reported so far.
Don’t trust the GPU usage in Task Manager because it is very unreliable.
You may want to use other software to check GPU usage, such as TechPowerUp GPU-Z.
Also, I see your H-Drive is at 99%, are you writing or reading data from H-Drive ?
If yes, the drive may be the bottleneck of your system.
Yeah I hope tonemapped is writing to one of the SSD’s and not to the external USB. While I trust USB for general backups and reading data, I don’t trust it for work I can’t recover.
You can display the GPU-ssage in the Taskmanager: you have to select “Graphics_1” for the displayed values (e.g. instead of “Copy”). This is used by VEAI.
It’s notoriously wrong though.
Task Manager is wrong if your not using Graphics_1 for the display selection. MSI also doesn’t do any smoothing of the data collection so you get more spikes where task manager is smoothing. There are a number of software packages now that will give you the readings. I like using HWiNFO64 because I can embed the numbers I want to see in the taskbar with Windows 11. What I have is first CPU and than GPU usage in percentage. Than Download and Upload speeds. Finally CPU and GPU power usage in watts.
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Thanks a lot mike for the suggestion of Hwinfo64, i didn’t know it had as well a taskbar notification ! I was using Cpu temp core until then, but this one is much better, as i can see when i have issue with my internet provider as well ! Thx !
Hi everyone. Hope you are doing well. I am trying to convert old VOB videos (720x576) to Full HD ones. Should i convert them to mp4 first? Is it going to change anything quality wise after processing? And should the video output be MP4 or images first then process them to MP4 (i think i read somewhere it will be better if the video output will be in images).
Vob Videos are not “Videos” File. they come from an Extracted Dvd usually.
I’ll suggest first to convert them to regular mpeg2 video, with a software called dvdVobtompeg , and then , eventually convert to mp4.
Big chance are that your Vob files are maybe enterlaced, so you’ll have to de-interlace them, with VEAI or an another software.
if you convert your VOB to Mp4 be careful to not have the conversion done to progressive video, because you’ll not be able to remove the interlacing frames issue after.
most de-interlaced treatment in conversion software doesn’t handle very well this. That’s why the models for this with VEAI are interesting. so you need to do different treatment steps.
