Hi, I read on Vimeo: "What is hardware-accelerated decoding, and how do I disable it? All videos need to be decoded in order to be viewed. In other words, the data within a video file is interpreted and rendered as sound and images for playback. On Vimeo, videos are decoded using either your browser’s native decoding technology or Adobe Flash. Hardware-accelerated decoding means that your computer’s hardware is used in addition to your browser or Flash to decode the video. Depending on your particular hardware configuration, this may affect the look or sound of video playback on Vimeo (and across the wide world of the Internet). When troubleshooting playback issues, you may want to try enabling or disabling hardware-accelerated decoding. How you do so will depend on whether your browser uses Vimeo's Flash or HTML5 player. (FYI: Not all browsers or operating systems utilize hardware-accelerated decoding.)" Just was wondering does this mean that the particular computer I edit, render and upload my videos from may effect their quality? Thanks.
Hi, the info from Vimeo only applies to playback of video, not creation of video. Creation of video will depend on the video editing software you have, the settings you use, and the video capabilities of your computer. The main issue you will find with an older computer or one that does not have a current video card would be either slow rendering, or skipped frames, or out of sync sound. Basic suggestion always applies, for editing video get the fastest computer you can, with the best video card, with the most video memory on the video card. Usually computers designed for gamers work well for video editing since they have the same issues, fast video rendering.