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- October 24, 2020 at 9:01 am #62920
I was actually surprised at how little the surface pro runs in the background, straight out of the box, seeing as its a tablet with a touch screen.
Infact about the only thing that does launch on start up is the pen input service but that uses 0% CPU time if you don’t have a pen attached.
October 24, 2020 at 11:23 am #62922I noticed that U20.10 uses the latest Linux 5.8 kernel that has more Comet Lake tweaks. However Phoronix did their usual top notch testing using a Comet Lake system and the verdict is stick with 20.04.1 LTS.
October 24, 2020 at 1:18 pm #62924I just ran the Geekbench OpenCL test again on my desktop with a Radeon RX480, the score was 41837 !
So it looks like any rendering app that uses the GPU is going to gain a HUGE advantage 😃
October 24, 2020 at 2:09 pm #62930I’ve tried Geekbanch on Mint and the results are random. Ranging from 500 single core/1068 multi to 1116 single/1998 multi.
I have no idea what’s going on but it seems like Geekbench doesn’t like the new rig. :negative: :unsure:
Just about to try some rendering so will report back when that’s done.
October 24, 2020 at 2:32 pm #62936That really is the only way to do it, run the apps you are going to use and see what happens 😁
October 24, 2020 at 2:44 pm #62938WOF, that’s what the plan is.
October 24, 2020 at 4:02 pm #62942WOF, typically hardware rendering on the GPU gives a massive speed-up. Checking out FFMPG (which is used by both Openshot and KDEnlive) there is a hardware rendering option link.
In KDEnlive this is just a check the box configuration option, and if the hardware acceleration is not available it will tell you so. I suspect that Openshot will behave in a similar fashion.
However it would not surprise me if this is not available on a laptop due to cooling constraints.
October 24, 2020 at 4:44 pm #62945Thanks for that Ed, I had a look.
I doesn’t look like the Cinebench R20 benchmark uses GPU acceleration at all.
My desktop with Core i7 990X and RX480 scores 1604 and the Surface pro with i5 and iris plus graphics gets 1565.
October 24, 2020 at 7:42 pm #62960Spent most of the afternoon trying to gigure out what’s going on with video rendering, kdenlive was showing 5 hours to render the clip. :negative:
OpenShot wouldn’t use anything apart from Ogg. :wacko:
Got fed up and re-installed Mint and started from scratch. Kdenlive rendered it using the 4K H265 preset in 30.64. Considering the file size (less than an eighth of the original, 8GB to 965MB) I’m happy with that.
OpenShot can’t use any hardware acceleration so is SLOW and runs the rig full pelt all the time. It gets toasty.
If I can’t get OpenShot to use hardware acceleration then I’m going to have to wrap my head around kdenlive,it seems to be more powerful than OpenShot but also more confusing, for me anyway.
Geekbench scores were still all over the place.
Head hurts now. 🙁
October 25, 2020 at 7:35 am #62968I’m by no means an expert with kdenlive, and I’ll agree it can be as confusing as hell. Rather than confuse you with my own idiosyncrasies I think it best to refer you to The Manual. While you can get away with bumbling around between the project and tools tabs, the one area I find really confusing is adding effects, and I think the page for that section is essential!
October 25, 2020 at 10:08 am #62979Thanks for that Ed.
October 27, 2020 at 9:30 pm #63060iPad pro is a great editing Machine . I think the new air is just as good.
October 28, 2020 at 7:43 pm #63073Some good links lads and useful. :good:
October 28, 2020 at 8:54 pm #63077After a few days of messing around I’ve come to some conclusions.
OpenShot does animated titles brilliantly, thanks to Blender. There are some available, maybe 15, and you can tweak them a bit.
KdenLive is more stable and I’m getting my head around how it works. So for now I’m using OpenShot for the titles, rendering them to the resolution I’m going to use on the final video and importing that to KdenLive.
I think I’m doing OK but I’m also aware that my autistic traits are creeping in, 4 hours today before I moved. Ignored the pain from all over my body and was focused on getting a 30 second clip just right. Which maybe 0.005 % of the worlds population would notice. :negative:
At some stage I’d like to get my head around Blender so I can make custom titles and animations, can’t cope with that right now.
When I have some spare £ (E2Save owe my a ton, getting it is like trying to get blood out of gravel) I may well invest in some proper Chromakey backgrounds, been messing about with it today and everything need to be so smooth.
October 29, 2020 at 6:56 am #63079I wish I could get my head around Blender! :scratch: I’m afraid that by beating Blender’s own idiosyncratic modelling path my ingrained habits for using all the mainstream commercial modellers gets in the way.
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