Posted by Pat Horridge on 09/13/05 15:29

"Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
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> "Pat Horridge" <pat@remove-spam.vet.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> "Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
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>> > "Martin Heffels" <biz@thisproductworks.com.> wrote in message
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>> >> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:17:05 GMT, "Jona Vark" <noemail@all.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >There is a lot of development beginning on beta OS and beta IDE.. I
>> >> >would
>> >> >hope the big guns are working on 64 bit versions of popular NLEs..
>> >>
>> >> The only big multimedia stuff which I know is Softimage 5 and
> Lightwave.
>> >> Maya for x64 is under development (maybe a 64-bit version for Linux
> will
>> >> see the light sooner?). Canopus people have said they were not
> developing
>> >> anything, Avid neither.
>> >> It might be they are all waiting for the release of Windows Vista.
>> >>
>> >> cheers
>> >>
>> >> -martin-
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> "Beer is life!"
>> >
>> > The reason why we are not seeing 64 bit NLEs is that there is very
> little
>> > to
>> > be gained by going 64 bit for editing. Editing is still not a hugely
>> > memory
>> > intensive activity in the same way that compositing and 3D animation
> are.
>> >
>> > I agree Martin, Vista's release must be in the minds of developers.
>> > Because
>> > we don't need 64 bits why spend resources releasing a 64 bit version
>> > now
>> > to
>> > a limited audience when the developers can release one 64 bit version
> for
>> > all when Vista arrives.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> I'd have to disagree if ypur looking at HD editing (and more and more
> people
>> are)
>> Our DS with 4GB of RAM the most 32 bit can support is close to the limit.
>> The move to 64bit will open the door to RAM bottlenecks and really help
> with
>> caching massive ammounts of data to RAM for processing etc.
>>
>
> I suggest you re-read my post, taking particular care over the second
> sentence.
>
>
I presume you mean:

"Editing is still not a hugely memory intensive activity in the same way
that compositing and 3D animation
are."

Of course our DS is not just an editor but does compositing as well so as an
application it is memory hungry.

But our tests on HDV editing also lead us to believe that there will be
gains in using X64 platforms.
And most edit systems now use rendering and the performance of this will
improve with an X64 platform I'm sure.

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