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jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:33 am

FurryCurry wrote:I doubt it will feel extremely zoomy, but it shouldn't try your patience too much.

Dude, I have a P3-733 with 448MB RAM, and it's plenty speedy for editing.

People put too much faith in the Uberness of the latest high-end processors... with each newly-released processor, there's less and less difference in speed between it and the previously-released one.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:29 pm

I just know I can encode xvid 720x480 100% quality, at 36 fps. Dual processors, unlike singles, make a damn difference... plus your ram and pagefile also make all the world.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:13 pm

Dannywilson wrote:I just know I can encode xvid 720x480 100% quality, at 36 fps. Dual processors, unlike singles, make a damn difference... plus your ram and pagefile also make all the world.

I don't know man...

VirtualDub is not SMP aware and the idea of actually doing SMP while encoding a intraframe compression technique just doesn't compute.

Also wouldn't singles be doubles, since it's plural. Singles <--- multiple singles... You have two singles in your computer.

Anyways... I am becoming worse then jbone.

~klinky

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:29 am

Kashinoda, the best way to know if you have a good machine to edit with is to test it out yourself. Run it through some tests, convert and edit a short clip or something. As for choosing a processor I base my decision on MaximumPC's benchmarks. Basically the Athlon kicks Intels #@& when it come to editing with Adobe Premiere because the code isn't optimized for Pentiums not to mention there cheaper. Anyways you have a decent computer and should be able to edit and create a good video with what you have.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:36 am

The code in Premiere isn't optimized worth shitzle. >_<

I hate j00 Premiere.

~klinky

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 3:51 am

klinky wrote:I hate j00 Premiere.

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FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 2:41 pm

jbone wrote:
FurryCurry wrote:I doubt it will feel extremely zoomy, but it shouldn't try your patience too much.
Dude, I have a P3-733 with 448MB RAM, and it's plenty speedy for editing.

People put too much faith in the Uberness of the latest high-end processors... with each newly-released processor, there's less and less difference in speed between it and the previously-released one.

Several months ago, I had to take a project with me for final encoding while on a trip, in order to make a contest deadline. As I recall, encoding a 4:33 video from the Huffyuv file to mpeg2, took a good 2h, 30m on a P3 900 laptop with 384mb of PC100. The same encode at home on my newly built P4 2.53 with 1024mb of RDRAM took 48 minutes.

Yes, I know about processor cycling, and that laptop HD's are hideously slow, but that is a significant difference, the difference between seeing if it's going to turn out alright, and going to bed hoping you got everything right, and that it won't crash.

I did pronounce the system suitable, if you'll recall.