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Well put PTRAVEL.
"PTRAVEL" <ptravel88-usenet@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "James McIninch" <james.mcininch@comcast.net.spam> wrote in message
> news:Gzxkc.4376$kh4.263279@attbi_s52...
> > You forget the very large external harddisk and also to type 'FAST CPU'
in
> > all caps.
> >
> > FireWire is a necessity for DV.
>
> True, but only because it's the accepted standard by the camera
> manufacturers for transferring DV to a computer.
>
> > A fast hard drive helps, particularly if you
> > are stuck with Windows,
>
> Not at all. DV25 (which is the standard for miniDV) has a data rate of
> approximately 3.8 megabits per second. This is easily within the
> capabilities of even the 4,200 rpm hard drives frequently found on
laptops.
> There is no need for a fast hard drive for capture of DV25. There's also
> nothing wrong with Windows as an NLE OS and, indeed, Premiere Pro isn't
even
> available for Mac machines. Windows has, for some years now, been a
viable
> platform for NLE and, as with other kinds of software, there is a larger
> range of editing programs, effects programs and related software available
> for it than for the Mac.
>
> > but it isn't nearly as important as a fast CPU (the
> > kind that makes you want an asbestos pad to set it on), and fast memory
/
> > bus (not that there's much options there).
>
> CPU speed is only an issue for rendering. Even a 500 MHz CPU is fast
enough
> to capture and edit DV. Where speed really becomes an issue is
transcoding,
> as there is a linear relationship between transcode time and CPU speed.
My
> old 1.4 GHz Athlon could transcode three times faster than my older 500
MHz
> machine.
>
> By way of comparison, doing a 2-pass VBR transcode of a 2-hour AVI using
> TMPgenc (which, I'm convinced, offers the best quality short of Ligos),
took
> 3 days on the 500 MHz machine, 24 hours on the 1.4 GHz machine, and 12
hours
> on my newer 3.0 GHz machine.
>
> >
> > You need a large disk because your DV is going to take a good 14G per
hour
> > of footage and you're going to want plenty of room to work. You can pay
> > exorbitant amounts of money for a large (80-100G) laptop drive, or spend
> > less than half the cash and get an external USB2 or FireWire unit with
2-3
> > times the capacity at half the cost.
>
> Note that there are problems with trying to capture DV on the same 1394
line
> as an external 1394 hard drive. It's usually a software issue. For
> example, I've had problems with external 1394 drives using Scenealyzer
Live
> (my capture program of choice), but not with Pinnacle's DV Capture
program.
>
> >
> > The brutal part about encoding video for DVD is the sheer amount of
> > number-crunching that goes into rendering and encoding. You'll never
find
> a
> > laptop that would compare with an optimal desktop, but you can get a
> > reasonable working setup.
>
> When I started working with NLE, I used a 500MHz Athlon machine. Render
> times were long, but not impossible; now I use a 3.0GHz P4 which, of
course,
> works just fine. Just for fun, I tried Premiere Pro on my 1.8GHz Sony
Vaio
> laptop with 512 meg of RAM. Even though the machine is under spec, it
works
> quite well. Realtime preview of transitions and effects can be jerky, but
> otherwise the program is perfectly usable.
>
> >
> > Frank wrote:
> >
> > > My company's buying me a laptop for digital video editing (Vegas 5).
So
> > > far I know that I should make sure it has:
> > > - firewire port
> > > - fast CPU
> > > - 7200 rpm hard drive
> > > - DVD burner
> > > - plenty of RAM (512 or 1GB)
> > >
> > > Anything else I should make sure to include or exclude?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > - Frank
> >
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