I was in a computer repair shop yesterday to see if I could buy a DVD burner to quickly replace one that "burned out" and they had about ten tower 3.2Ghz computers with 80GB hard drive, XP Pro and DVD burner for $170 each. (>From a university that changed all its computers). But, we have a set up for a horizontal case computer. I went to the IBM web site to see if they still make horizontal cases and they have a refurbished computer for $325, with faster CPU and larger HD than at the repair shop. No monitor with either, but that's okay. The XP would allow Premiere 6.5 to operate and I don't think it would with Windows 7. Hmmm
I changed the paging file (swap memory) set up and am going to try our old computer again with MPEG export. We started videoediting with VideoDirector, Canadian software. Everything was analog. We just do it for ourselves and fellow canoe club members. No staff to buy lunches for. Kathy -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 12:29 am Subject: Silly amounts of $ Re: [AP] Exporting to MPEG-2 with Premiere 6.5 --- On Wed, 3/16/11, BEDFORD NEIL <[email protected]> wrote: > I would think a simple i3 machine would probably handle the > whole thing for > quite a rock bottom price nowadays, they are available for > sub £300 in the > UK, (around $450?) and as someone else suggested, much > cheaper than an MPEG2 > card ever was new in reality. I did have one and to > be honest, it didn't > really add that much power, considering how much it cost, > but then the > processor power wasn't really viable, unless you wanted to > spend silly amounts. Speaking of silly amounts, look back at how much a fully outfitted Radius 81/110 Mac clone with the NuBus Media 100 system cost, with all the dongles to enable all the features. Somewhere north of $10K! It'd have at best 100 gigs total storage and the slow SCSI had to be setup in a striped RAID to barely manage 4.5 megabytes/second to capture at 150K per frame. It had 264 megabytes RAM in 72 pin SIMMs. That was just the computer and capture hardware. On top of that would be a studio S-VHS or Betacam deck (or two) with component video and XLR audio connections. A time-base corrector was mandatory because the capture hardware had no frame buffer. The slightest bobble in the synch would cause it to stop capturing. Since it was from the era of 2gig maximum file sizes, the software was hard coded to stop capturing when the file reached 2gig. With remote deck control (RS-422 serial) it would start a new file and keep going. Without remote control it was possible but very very tedious. The workaround was capturing in draft quality to try and squeeze as much of a project into to 2gig as possible. Do all the edits and FX then fire it up in full quality capture, sit back and watch it automatically operate the decks - sucking in video piece by piece, applying FX then writing out to the final tape. Of course that required remote deck control and the original tapes had to be recorded on pro equipment with vertical interval timecode recorded. So there's another multi-thousand $$$ expense. For the money it took to do professional nowhere near realtime video editing in the late 1990's - it's nearly impossible to spend that much money now. Today your biggest expense is going to be the software, it's as expensive as ever, but is capable of much more due to how much more power current computers have. You could outfit a whole digital studio now for the cost of a single complete workstation a decade ago. Might even have money leftover to treat the staff to a week of lunches. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
