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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: asterix on November 07, 2017, 12:31:18 PM

Title: What determines Creating AVI progress speed in AH Film Viewer
Post by: asterix on November 07, 2017, 12:31:18 PM

Currently tackling with the film viewer and creating AVI progress speed seems very slow. Without changing resolution or compression what determines how fast AVI file is created? My CPU is between 50-60%, RAM usage about 1,66 GB out of 8 GB available. Don`t see any bottlenecks in Windows 7 resource monitor. 380 frames of footage at 1920x1080 size at 30 FPS NTSC TV standard with compression quality set to 100 takes "forever".

Title: Re: What determines Creating AVI progress speed in AH Film Viewer
Post by: Skuzzy on November 08, 2017, 06:07:38 AM

Hard drive, video card, and CPU speeds are the primary bottlenecks.

Take a look at the Windows resource monitor for more details on how the load is distributed.

Title: Re: What determines Creating AVI progress speed in AH Film Viewer
Post by: asterix on November 08, 2017, 12:47:27 PM

How is a video card related to this? I thought it is just one file converted to another without the need to actually display anything during the process.

Title: Re: What determines Creating AVI progress speed in AH Film Viewer
Post by: Skuzzy on November 08, 2017, 12:56:49 PM

The frames are drawn, just like they would be for the monitor, then copied into the film file.  Every frame is rendered by the game's graphic engine.

Game films do not have any rendered frames in them.