SpeedGrade Interface & Performance Questions

New SpeedGrade user.... had a great experience grading a commerical spec this weekend on the CC version. Would like to start using it during client attend, but need to understand a few things first:
1) Is there a way to keep the Look color controls from dimming? I would like to them to stay on, or bright, all the time.
2) Can you set the parade scopes to function normally where the waveforms move, but the scope outline itself stays fixed?
3) Does anyone have any ideas for making tracking faster? Right now a 5-6 second clip takes what seems like a few minutes to track.
4) I have an SSD boot drive. Other than media storage, does SpeedGrade use any cache locations that benefit from fast drive I/O?
5) Are SpeedGrade corrections actually realtime in the the way that Premiere or Resolve are, or is it caching heavily in the background to enable playback of corrections?
6) I am getting about 10fps on render out using ProRes444 and 3-4 layers of corrections on a 2.66 GHz, 12-Core Mac Pro with 32GB of ram, a K5000, and very fast RAID array. My disk performance (latency?) hovers around 7-10ms, and CPU is around 300-400ms. The other two are always at 0ms. Is there anything I can invest in that would help get render outs up to at least 24fps?

I have tried both Cuda and OpenCL and both have issues crashing when exporting (or failed export). Software works fine, but takes a long time to export and playback is unusably sluggish.
Source material is Canon 5d2 and canon 5d3 .h264 All-I and IPB compression schemes. 23.97fps. I have tried with no external display, and with external. Internal storage (flash) and external. I have the faster of the macbook retina's with 16GB ram.
It's literally stopped my production, as exports are flaky and I can't really edit without slowly rendering. I have tried re-installing the software, and trashign preferences, and repaired disk permissions. My drive is less than half full.
Here are specs:
Premiere pro 6.0.2 (latest update)
OSX 10.8.2 (latest update)
2.5GHz i7 quad core
16GB ram
500GB apple flash drive
Thunderbolt Lacie Raid

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FAQ: Where can I learn more about the SpeedGrade interface?

The SpeedGrade interface can be confusing if you don't know where to look. See this video tutorial by Patrick Inhofer for a full tour of the SpeedGrade CC interface.

Apple has what they call "online seminars" available on the main Logic page
http://www.apple.com/logicpro/
If you look on the bottom right hand side of the page, you see a link for online seminars. You'll have to go through a regstration process, then you can watch 3 or 4 streaming Quicktime videos of people using different functions in Logic. There's nothing really in depth there, but it does show you a few useful shortcuts and methods.

Simple performance question

Simple performance question. the simplest way possible, assume
I have a int[][][][][] matrix, and a boolean add. The array is several dimensions long.
When add is true, I must add a constant value to each element in the array.
When add is false, I must subtract a constant value to each element in the array.
Assume this is very hot code, i.e. it is called very often. How expensive is the condition checking? I present the two scenarios.
private void process(){
for (int i=0;i<dimension1;i++)
for (int ii=0;ii<dimension1;ii++)
for (int iii=0;iii<dimension1;iii++)
    for (int iiii=0;iiii<dimension1;iiii++)
         if (add)
         matrix[i][ii][iii][...] += constant;
         else
         matrix[i][ii][iii][...] -= constant;
private void process(){
if (add)
for (int i=0;i<dimension1;i++)
for (int ii=0;ii<dimension1;ii++)
for (int iii=0;iii<dimension1;iii++)
    for (int iiii=0;iiii<dimension1;iiii++)
         matrix[i][ii][iii][...] += constant;
else
for (int i=0;i<dimension1;i++)
for (int ii=0;ii<dimension1;ii++)
for (int iii=0;iii<dimension1;iii++)
    for (int iiii=0;iiii<dimension1;iiii++)
       matrix[i][ii][iii][...] -= constant;
}Is the second scenario worth a significant performance boost? Without understanding how the compilers generates executable code, it seems that in the first case, n^d conditions are checked, whereas in the second, only 1. It is however, less elegant, but I am willing to do it for a significant improvement.

erjoalgo wrote:
I guess my real question is, will the compiler optimize the condition check out when it realizes the boolean value will not change through these iterations, and if it does not, is it worth doing that micro optimization?Almost certainly not; the main reason being that
matrix[i][ii][iii][...] +/-= constantis liable to take many times longer than the condition check, and you can't avoid it. That said, Mel's suggestion is probably the best.
but I will follow amickr advice and not worry about it.Good idea. Saves you getting flamed with all the quotes about premature optimization.
Winston

BPM performance question

Guys,
I do understand that ccPBM is very resource hungry but what I was wondering is this:
Once you use BPM, does an extra step decreases the performance significantly? Or does it just need slightly more resources?
More specifically we have quite complex mapping in 2 BPM steps. Combining them would make the mapping less clear but would it worth doing so from the performance point of view?
Your opinion is appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Viktor Varga

Hi,
In SXMB_ADM you can set the time out higher for the sync processing.
Go to Integration Processing in SXMB_ADM and add parameter SA_COMM CHECK_FOR_ASYNC_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT to 120 (seconds). You can also increase the number of parallel processes if you have more waiting now. SA_COMM CHECK_FOR_MAX_SYNC_CALLS from 20 to XX. All depends on your hardware but this helped me from the standard 60 seconds to go to may be 70 in some cases.
Make sure that your calling system does not have a timeout below that you set in XI otherwise yours will go on and finish and your partner may end up sending it twice
when you go for BPM the whole workflow
has to come into action so for example
when your mapping last < 1 sec without bpm
if you do it in a BPM the transformation step
can last 2 seconds + one second mapping...
(that's just an example)
so the workflow gives you many design possibilities
(brigde, error handling) but it can
slow down the process and if you have
thousands of messages the preformance
can be much worse than having the same without BPM
see below links
http://help.sap.com/bp_bpmv130/Documentation/Operation/TuningGuide.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/d92e428819da2ce10000000a1550b0/content.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/3.0/sap%20exchange%20infrastructure%20tuning%20guide%20xi%203.0.pdf
BPM Performance tuning
BPM Performance issue
BPM performance question
BPM performance- data aggregation persistance
Regards
Chilla..

Interface Performance - Premiere CS6

I am experiencing extremely sluggish interface performance using Premiere Pro CS6. As an example, moving from the sequence to the "effects" panel is a very laggy transition. Further, adjusting the X/Y coordinates of an object is a nightmare. Video playback (even when set to 1/2 playback res and 1/2 pause res) is also surprisingly slow. I have used Premiere Pro CS5 on a moderately beefy PC and have had less trouble. This is surprising, considering the machine I am on now:
Brand New MacBook Pro
2.5 Ghz quad-core i7
8 GB RAM
512 Solid State Drive
AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
Automatic graphics switching
OS 10.7.4
What gives?!?

I have tried both Cuda and OpenCL and both have issues crashing when exporting (or failed export). Software works fine, but takes a long time to export and playback is unusably sluggish.
Source material is Canon 5d2 and canon 5d3 .h264 All-I and IPB compression schemes. 23.97fps. I have tried with no external display, and with external. Internal storage (flash) and external. I have the faster of the macbook retina's with 16GB ram.
It's literally stopped my production, as exports are flaky and I can't really edit without slowly rendering. I have tried re-installing the software, and trashign preferences, and repaired disk permissions. My drive is less than half full.
Here are specs:
Premiere pro 6.0.2 (latest update)
OSX 10.8.2 (latest update)
2.5GHz i7 quad core
16GB ram
500GB apple flash drive
Thunderbolt Lacie Raid

Swing performance question: CPU-bound

Hi,
I've posted a Swing performance question to the java.net performance forum. Since it is a Swing performance question, I thought readers of this forum might also be interested.
Swing CPU-bound in sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.eventLoop
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1636&tstart=0
Thanks,
Curt

You obviously don't understand the results, and the first reply to your posting on java.net clearly explains what you missed.
The event queue is using Thread.wait to sleep until it gets some more events to dispatch. You have incorrectly diagnosed the sleep waiting as your performance bottleneck.

Xcontrol: performance question (again)

Hello,
I've got a little performance question regarding xcontrols. I observed rather high cpu-load when using xcontrols. To investigate it further, I built a minimal xcontrol (boolean type) which only writes the received boolean-value to a display-element in it's facade (see attached example). When I use this xcontrol in a test-vi and write to it with a rate of 1000 booleans / second, I get a cpu-load of about 10%. When I write directly to a boolean display element instead of the xcontrol,I have a load of 0 to 1 %. The funny thing is, when I emulate the xcontrol functionality with a subvi, a subpanel and a queue (see example), I only have 0 to 1% cpu-load, too.
Is there a way to reduce the cpu-load when using xcontrols?
If there isn't and if this is not a problem with my installation but a known issue, I think this would be a potential point for NI to fix in a future update of LV.
Regards,
soranito
Message Edited by soranito on 04-04-2010 08:16 PM
Message Edited by soranito on 04-04-2010 08:18 PM
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soranito wrote:
Hello,
I've got a little performance question regarding xcontrols. I observed rather high cpu-load when using xcontrols. To investigate it further, I built a minimal xcontrol (boolean type) which only writes the received boolean-value to a display-element in it's facade (see attached example). When I use this xcontrol in a test-vi and write to it with a rate of 1000 booleans / second, I get a cpu-load of about 10%. When I write directly to a boolean display element instead of the xcontrol,I have a load of 0 to 1 %. The funny thing is, when I emulate the xcontrol functionality with a subvi, a subpanel and a queue (see example), I only have 0 to 1% cpu-load, too.
Okay, I think I understand question now. You want to know why an equivalent xcontrol boolean consumes 10x more CPU resource than the LV base package boolean?
Okay, try opening the project I replied yesterday. I don't have access to LV at my desk so let's try this. Open up your xcontrol facade.vi. Notice how I separated up your data event into two events? Go the data change vi event, when looping back the action, set the isDataChanged (part of the data change cluster) to FALSE. While the data input (the one displayed on your facade.vi front panel), set that isDataChanged to TRUE. This is will limit the number of times facade will be looping. It will not drop your CPU down from 10% to 0% but it should drop a little, just enough to give you a short term solution. If that doesn't work, just play around with the loopback statement. I can't remember the exact method.
Yeah, I agree xcontrol shouldn't be overconsuming system resource. I think xcontrol is still in its primitive form and I'm not sure if NI is planning on investing more times to bug fix or even enhance it. Imo, I don't think xcontrol is quite ready for primetime yet. Just too many issues that need improvement.
Message Edited by lavalava on 04-06-2010 03:34 PM

Interfaces vs classes (performance question)

I have three classes A, B and X.
Both A and B use X but they use different methods so I defined two interfaces for X: XA and XB.
This works fine but is not really necessary - so my question is does this affect performance in any way or is it just a compile time thing?
Thank you

TomsterG wrote:
dcminter wrote:
That's rarely a good design criterion - although if a class is difficult to work with, it indicates that there's probably something wrong with it.yes yes i know, all good points.
I really only wanted to know about the performance issues though :)I think you might want to find another site. I can tell that so far you are really not going to like it here.
You have a design that is broken. I suspected it in reply 1. Other said the same thing and when you said more about your problem it was confirmed. And now your response is "I really only wanted to know about the performance issues"?
Seriously. You are not going to like the replies you get on this site. We don't give a flying whatsit about performance issues when it comes at the cost of having a horrible design with classes with 100 methods. Because nobody here wants to maintain applications built on that abortion of a design so we all do our best to discourage that sort of thinking.
But your replies really suggest that you don't get it, you don't care and you think you are superior in your needs and ideas to anyone who might be interested in responding to your posts.
It's a waste of your time.

Logic 8/Leop - Performance question in the interface...SLOW???

Dears,
just installed Logic Studio.
I'm running it on the latest G5 Imac, Leopard, 2.5 GB of RAM.
To note, i installed some of the audio content (actually the ~22GB pack that you can choose where to install) on a fast external HD, connected via FireWire (FW 400 on the old imacs ).
Audio card is M-Audio Firewire 410.
Quite simply, in the 20 minutes i could play with it, i noticed the overall interface is really slow.
For example, i click on the right side on "explore", half-a-second-delay than the tab is highlighted. All like this...it's like when you have the CPU overloaded with something in Windows and every single click get response with a bit of delay.
Also, when exploring "all" apple loops, i really have to wait some 5-10 secs minimum of "thinking" (this maybe is normal, as they're 1,000s and stored externally). When choosing a sample/instrument and loading it, on the contrary, everything goes fast.
But it's the overall feeling of browsing, clicking, selecting instruments, choosing effects....wherever i click, there is some sort of delay.
Obviously on the system i shut down every single other application when i run Logic.
Audio wise, i only had the chance to gig a bit with a piano, and all was fine (no lag, loads of voices, all regular).
1- Anyone has noticed the same? Suggestions?
2- Plus, would you think it's better to keep ALL of the audio samples from Logic in the internal HD, and maybe use the external one for other libraries (i also have Colossus, which streams from HD)?
3- I final note...i had installed a plethora of demos, VSTs, old AUs, etc. that i want to get rid of. I want to start with a clean setup of Logic (with all of his instruments/effects), and then start adding only the real few that i need. If i cancel the AU placed in library/audio/etc. will i also take out logic instrments/effects, or are they stored in a different place?
Thanks for your patience and help
Ciao,
Vanni

Hit up a studio earlier this week running L8 and Leopard, just did the Leopard install the day it came out. Guy running the studio definitely noticed a difference; after placing a call to a couple 3-party manufacturers of interfaces and two other computer-recording-expert colleagues (invaluable resources, lemme tell ya), it turns out that there's a lot of little things about the OS update that are contributing to not-so-super performance using Leopard. I've decided to wait at least one, maybe two major updates to 10.5 before I upgrade.
In the meantime, try verifying and repairing your disk permissions. And actually, there's a little freeware tool out there called Maintenance 3.7 that might help you, it's essentially an Automator Action/Applescript tool that automatically runs a whole bunch of little tasks that help keep the Mac system running smooth and error-free. Check it out here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/maintenance.html. I don't know if it has any conflicts with Leopard, shouldn't hurt to try it. Hope this helps.

MBP with 27" Display performance question

I'm looking for advice regarding improving the performance, if possible, of my Macbook Pro and new 27'' Apple display combination. I'm using a 13" Macbook Pro 2.53Ghz with 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card and I have 114GB of the 250GB of HD space available. What I'm really wondering is is this enough spec to run the 27" display easily. Apple says it is… and it does work, but I suspect that I'm working at the limit of what my MCB is capable of. My main applications are Photoshop CS5 with Camera RAW and Bridge. Everything works but I sometimes get lock ups and things are basically a bit jerky. Is the bottle neck my 2.53Ghz processor or the graphics card? I have experimented with the Open GL settings in Photoshop and tried closing all unused applications. Does anyone have any suggestions for tuning things and is there a feasible upgrade for the graphics card if such a thing would make a difference? I have recently started working with 21mb RAW files which I realise isn't helping. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Matt.

I just added a gorgeous LCD 24" to my MBP setup (the G5 is not Happy) The answer to your question is yes. Just go into Display Preferences and drag the menu bar over to the the 24 this will make the 24 the Primary Display and the MBP the secondary when connected.

Performance question about 11.1.2 forms at runtime

hi all,
Currently we are investigating a forms/reports migration from 10 to 11.
Initialy we were using v. 11.1.1.4 as the baseline for the migration. Now we are looking at 11.1.2.
We have the impression that the performance has decreased significantly between these two releases.
To give an example:
A wizard screen contains an image alongside a number of items to enter details. In 11.1.1.4 this screen shows up immediately. In 11.1.2 you see the image rolling out on the canvas whilst the properties of the items seem to be set during this event.
I saw that a number of features were added to be able to tune performance which ... need processing too.
I get the impression that a big number of events are communicating over the network during the 'built' of the client side view of the screen. If I recall well during the migration of 6 to 9, events were bundled to be transmitted over the network so that delays couldn't come from network roundtrips. I have the impression that this has been reversed and things are communicated between the client and server when they arrive and are not bundled.
My questions are:
- is anyone out there experiencing the same kind of behaviour?
- if so, is there some kind of property(ies) that exist to control the behaviour and improve performance?
- are there properties for performance monitoring that are set but which cause the slowness as a kind of sideeffect and maybe can be unset.
Your feedback will be dearly appreciated,
Greetigns,
Jan.

The profile can't be changed although I suspect if there was an issue then banding the line would be something they could utilise if you were happy to do so.
It's all theoretical right now until you get the service installed. Don't forget there's over 600000 customers now on FTTC and only a very small percentage of them have faults. It might seem like lots looking on this forum but that's only because forums are where people tend to come to complain.
If you want to say thanks for a helpful answer,please click on the Ratings star on the left-hand side If the the reply answers your question then please mark as ’Mark as Accepted Solution’

OPEN SQL performance question

Hi friends,
I'm going to read and process data in an interface coded in ABAP and OPEN SQL. To improve efficiency and reliability I'm processing the data in packets of a fixed size of rows - reading rows up to a predetermined numer into an internal table which then is processed and then finaly written back to database followed by "commit work". Then the process will continue with reading the next fixed number of rows, process them, and so on ...
The general question is, which is the most efficient way to implement this scenario?
I think of two basic approaches:
1.1) Loop over results from a cursor using FETCH NEXT CURSOR inside a LOOP appending the lines to the internal table.
2.1) Execute SELECT ... INTO TABLE <itab> FROM <table> UP TO <data packet size> ROWS.
My assumtion is that approach 2 would be the more effecient, is that correct?
The processed data will be written back to the database in one single statement:
2.2) INSERT <table> FROM TABLE <itab>
Which I assume is more efficient than doing the same using multiple inserts within a loop?
Regards,
Christian

In native SQL you can also use the packet options.
SELECT <Fields name>      appending corresponding fields of table <Internal table>
            <b>package size 20000</b>
            FROM <Database table name>
            WHERE <Condition>.
ENDSELECT.
By using this the system will fetch the records from database table in packets [20000 records per package]
Regards
Aman

Controlfile on ASM performance question

Seeing Controlfile Enqueue performance spikes, consideration are to move control file to separater diskgroup(need outage) ? or add some disk(from different luns,( i prefer this approach) in the same disk group , seems like slow disk is casing this issue...
2nd question :can snapshot controlfile be placed on ASM storage?

Following points may help:
- Separating the control file to another diskgroup may make things even worse in case that the total number of disks are insufficient in the new disk group.
- Those control file contention issues are usually nothing to do with the storage throughput you have but the number of operations requiring different levels of exclusion on the control files.
- Since multiple copies of controlfiles are updated concurrently a possible, sometimes, problem is that the secondary copy of controlfile is slower than the other. Please check that this is not the issue (different tiers of storage may cause such problems)
Regards,
Husnu Sensoy

Editing stills with motion effects, performance questions.

I am editing a video in FCE that consists solely of still photos.
I am creating motion effects (pans and pullbacks, etc) and dissolve
transitions, and overlaying titles. It will be played back on dvd
on a 16:9 monitor (standard dvd,not blueray hi-def). Some questions:
What is the FCE best setup to use for best image quality: DV-NTSC?
DV-NTSC Anamorphic? or is it HDV-1080i or 720p30 even though it
won't be played back as hi-def?
How do best avoid squiggly line problem with pan moves etc?
On my G-5, 2gb RAM, single processor machine I seem to be having
performance problems with playback: slow to render, dropping frames, etc
Thanks for any help!

Excellent summary MacDLS, thanks for the contribution.
A lot of the photos I've taken on my camera are 3072 X 2304 (resolution 314) .jpegs.
I've heard it said that jpegs aren't the best format for Motion, since they're a compressed format.
If you're happy with the jpegs, Motion will be, too.
My typical project could either be 1280 X 720 or SD. I like the photo to be a lot bigger than the
canvas size, so I have room to do crops and grows, and the like. Is there a maximum dimension
that I should be working with?
Yes and no. Your originals are 7,000,000 pixels. Your video working space only displays about 950,000 pixels at any single instant.
At that project size, your stills are almost 700% larger than the frame. This will tax any system as you add more stills. 150% is more realistic in terms of processing overhead and I try to only import HUGE images that I know are going to be tightly cropped by zooming in. You need to understand that an 1300x800 section of your original is as far as you can zoom in , the pixels will be 100% in size. If you zoom in further, all you get are bigger pixels. The trade off you make is that if you zoom way out on your source image, you've thrown away 75% of its content to scale it to fit the video format; you lose much much more if you go to SD.
Finally, the manual says that d.p.i doesn't matter in Motion, so does this mean that it's worth
actually exporting my 300 dpi photos to 72 dpi before working with them in Motion?
Don't confuse DPI with resolution. Your video screen will only show about 900,000 pixels in HD and about 350,000 pixels in SD totally regardless of how many pixels there are in your original.
bogiesan

9 shared objects performance question

I have 9 shared objects 8 of which contain dynamic data which i cannot really consolidate into a single shared object because the shared object often has to be cleared.....my question is what performance issues will I exsperience with this number of shared objects .....I maybe wrong in thinking that 9 shared objects is alot.....anybody with any exsperience using multiple shared objects plz respond.

I've used many more than 9 SO's in an application without issue. I suppose what it really comes down to is how many clients are connected to those SO's and how often each one is being updated.

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