Vitascene

[UBI2002]

My ATI X850XT was broken, so i had to buy a new video card. I created a little HDV project (m2t files) with Vitascene effects and filters for comparison. The videocards i am interested in were an ATI HD2900XT and a nVidia 8800 GTS 320MB. Both Cards have an overlay in Edius 4.51 but do not play Xplode transitions in realtime, as my X850 XT does. But there was a big difference in time to render my Vitascene test project. The 2900XT needs about 66% of the X850XT rendertime and the 8800 GTS only 46% of the X850XT time!!!! The more power of the 8800 GTS is visible on every effect or filter in Vitascene.

Kind regards,
UBI2002

[Jerry]

Yes, Vitascene 1.0.32 works as expected in 4.51c.

If you have time to render, the quality is worth the wait.

Rusty

Before I responded to this I went and downloaded the update and
tried it. Heres the long and short of it.

I had to reinstall the software(Vitascene) plus the update. It just wacked a few things.
I mainly use 1920x1080 presets. Well, that wont do any more. I can get it to do 1 effect and it isn't able to render . did I say it took forever to prefill a 1 second transition. Wasn't like that before.

In 1440x1080 1.3, I was getting the same realtime I had before on 1 second
transitions. With prefill I can get 3 second transitions to play through. This is on my main system.
It works as usual in this preset. Works on Uncompressed, HQ, and Blackmagic MotionJPEG codecs.
I hope some of this information helps. It does take some juice to use.
My Quadro card is 1 1/2 years old so it is fast loosing it's edge.
Prodad did say that ATI appears to work better with Vitascene.
On my system the ATI didn't play well with my 3 ware card, therefore the Quadro.

I will inform Prodad of the 1920 preset issue. Maybe they can adjust something that has gone walk about in 4.51c.

[Rusty]

Yes, Vitascene 1.0.32 works as expected in 4.51c.

If you have time to render, the quality is worth the wait.

Rusty

[muleferg]

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There's a newish service pack for Vitascene 1.0 on the Prodad site - if anyones interested.


Paul[/QUOTE]

I just downloaded. it for 4.51c. The transition still has to be renderede ..Only 12 sec. I can live with that for a burn thru.
Mule

[muleferg]

The Vitascene works for me. 4.51c But has to be rendered at thr transition.
Mule

[PaulTV]

I think my 6600, although pci is a bit long in the tooth, and I also mostly work HD, but it feels a lot more sticky than it did - it also now has a plugin for AE7 and AE8, I got it to work in 7 but on 8 it all goes horribly black! but then I'm having no luck with CS3 on my main edit system - looks like it's 7 for me for the rest of my days.

I've got this huge 7900 card gathering dust in the cupboard - needs 2 pci slots to run it, can't fit it - not enough slots - bummer - well unless I rip out my sound card - er no way!

There's a newish service pack for Vitascene 1.0 on the Prodad site - if anyones interested.


Paul

[STORMDAVE]

Well the last time I tried, some transitions were RT...the bokeh stuff was really hard on my GPU (X1900).

I think Jerry knows much more about Vitascene, he owns a copy.

[Rusty]

Havn't tried yet...
It was pretty bad in the past, is it worse now?
Vitascene rarely plays in RT with HD projects for me.

Rusty

[STORMDAVE]

When I was trying the Vitascene demo (now removed) it worked ok on my quad Mac Pro. It is really GPU intensive...so what graphics card do you have?

[PaulTV]

anyone tried ye olde Vitascene with 4.51c - it really chokes up here - wonder if its an overlay issue or just my set up?


Paul