Benchmark

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:46 pm

Is there a benchmark program for video editors like aqua for gamers? Or would it be the same? I ask this because obviously mac are much better at hadling images but usually crap at games. S what programs are there to bench mark your mac or pc's video editing, handling or rendering capabilities?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:48 pm

You can benchmark the speed encoders and decoders. You can benchmark framerates in games. There is no such thing to measure in a video editing program.

So, no, because you're asking for a comparison that is not defined.

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:57 pm

You can still compare arbitrary figures, for example if there were a program that does it, and it creates an arbitrary figure for the user they can compare the two to decide which is the best comp. where are the figures to show one pc will handle images better than another, for example the Intel® Viiv™ claims to do this better, or getting a new graphics card, or more ram etc, how are you supposed to confirm digital image handling capabilities? Surely not just on the users feel alone. And ok you can look at the spec but it isn't really what I'm talking about.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:00 pm

What sort of arbitrary figured would you compare? There really are no good measurements aside from video encoding/decoding speed, and that's not really the editing prog itself per se.

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:07 pm

Just thought there would be something, for example on my old comp with something like virtual dub there was a bit of a delay when look through the vid, or time to open videos of various formats, obviously time to render encode etc, time taken for after effects to ram preview/ apply effects on scroll through, time taken to apply effects, resizing etc, I guess it does all come back to the basic stuff then, cpu speed ram etc just be cool to measure all the things the computer needs to do when envolved with an edit and see haw the match. Specs do obviously make a huge difference, especially ram i think. Think I just answered my own question

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:03 pm

I don't know if this helps, but the moment I switched to the <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... html">bait and switch technique</a>, most of those things didn't seem to matter much, except for the encoding time. So, using this technique, as far as benchmarks go, you won't have to worry tooo much [this may help]:

2 computers:
-current laptop compaq: 2.0 GHz AMD Turion64, 2.0GB RAM
-temporary laptop acer:1.3 GHz PentiumM, 256MB RAM [my compaq needed repairs... I was being stupid]

using source footage in magix mep10:
-compaq loaded clips reasonably well, some lag-time
-acer barely loaded the clips

using bait files for footage in magix mep10:
-compaq no lag-time
-acer no lag-time [well occasionally when I applied an effect

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:10 pm

Also, if you want the nitty-gritty for some scripts in vdub, I suppose you could use a program like AvsTimer?
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56090
though I've never used it :\