Some time back Gopro released this video add that is like 12 min long recorded in 4K it’s about 1.8GB big. I saved it locally to do the test even when put on my SSD I have to kill almost every process even explorer and leave VLC up for it to even play decent.
Not a high-end system, but for an optiplex 380 6GB ram dual core Pentium 3GHZ 128MB ram radion PCI-EX16 GPU card. Pretty sure the GPU is the bottleneck, but the SPU will go from like 20% to 95% when playing so GPU seems does little to nothing with offloading processing.
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molan
(molan)
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Do you actually have a display and video card capable of 4K? your GPU is probably losing its mind trying to downgrade the video to a resolution your system can handle
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Forgot to mention the video is called Tomorrowland.
No running old stuff I just wanted to try and see what would happen. I used one before that would crash my netbook, it was like 3.3 minutes and like 600meg. My dell had no issue with it. I have yet to see hardware to handle 4K.
tnb
(Ty7625)
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I have a 3 GB video card in the Dell I bought last year (Invidia I think) and it coupled with Vegas edits it pretty well. Some advanced features in Vegas such as multiple picture in picture don’t render or take sometimes.
My camera is a Panasonic Lumix which is a great camera and I’ve still haven’t gone through all it can do. A 4K go pro is on the list.
My problem in 4K land is FTP to a couple of stock agencies. The max is 1 minute or so but the file size is a bit hefty and they almost never upload. 30 seconds or less generally works well. I don’t know why Shutterstock or Fotolia and the others can’t run an uploader like Youtube’s that generally is very solid. I use Filezilla in which I have no complaints over.
Wished a 4K clip would sell. I do stock submissions mostly as a hobby. At one time I made a few bucks on it. 4K format sells higher which is why I transitioned over. I would have stayed with Canon but Canon doesn’t make a 4K format body that a normal working person can afford. I’m still on just the one lens. A zoom and macro on the B&H wishlist.
jeremycat
(Afro Cat)
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netbooks are not equipped to handle 4k. just like you I’ve tried it. and it was a no go. you would need a desktop/laptop equipped with at least a 6970/7970/gtx 660 to get to 4k. Even then some cards don’t handle true 4,096 by 2,160 4k. only 2k disguised as such.
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The video I tried on the netbook was not even 4K it was like 1080P I’m guessing about 3 minutes of video is like 600MB. I think that one does a bit of graphics test, but also disk, etc as is a rather high bitrate video. That netbook is pretty pathetic even like youtube in 360P it starts running hot, and video at times is flaky.
I remember trying second life on the netbook for a class it was starting to go bonkers. The teacher was like yeah you won’t run that on a netbook you can use one of the lab systems for this.
I went this route with 1080p video. worked pretty well with little to no stuttering for netbooks:
http://www.amazon.com/Broadcom-BCM70015-Crystal-Hardware-DecoderHardware/dp/B008D96Z8Q
I had to turn off pretty much everything that wasnt essential to windows to get it to work in a proper manner. and max out the ram to whatever I could find and install an ssd. it ended up costing more than the damn netbook at the time.
I just did as I was curious. I did run youtube for a time though on netbook when my desktop was KOd for about a week waiting for a warranty part.
