Your in a better boat then Apple FCPX people at the moment. I haven't heard so much open bitching from Apple clients in... Honestly, I can't think of when. They are generally a happy lot. But you'd think someone stole their baby and poisoned their drinking water Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: Winterlight <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:18:21 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [H] video editing out of a RAM drive I have a workstation based around a three year old 9650 processor running at 3.45Ghz, 8GB of RAM, two Sapphire 5770s, a Intel SSD for Win7 64bit, a couple of small OCZs in a RAID 0 for installing games on, a 300GB Raptor and a collection of drives for storage. This has worked out well for my needs and has been great for SD video editing. However, now I record cable broadcasts at 1080i and am editing HD TS files. I use TMPGEnc video software and I own their encoding, editing, and DVD making software. In SD I had no problems editing the frames would slide by, back and forth, quick cuts and paste, it has been great. But when I started doing the same thing with the TS files things slowed down enormously trying to deal with the blizzard of data running through the editing stream. I edit from the RAPTOR which is surprisingly faster and easier to work with then the RAID 0 SSD although it is common knowledge that for what ever reason SSDs are not particularly good for video editing. Then TMGEnc Video Master Works 5 came out and this made the task doable. It will edit a TS file and will skip displayed frames in order to provide the same time line at considerably faster speeds. But this also caused, at times, abrupt transitions and was not as quick and silky smooth as working with SD. I started to wonder what it would be like to edit out of a RAM drive. Unfortunately, doubling my DDR2 800 from four 2GB DIMMS to four 8 GB DIMMS cost a fortune.. like 4 or 5 hundred dollars. Even though this year I decided to hang on to my system for a few more years, spending that kind of money on something I can't take with me when I upgrade later on, would be crazy. But this month some memory manufactures are dumping old inventory and I was able to buy 4GB Patriot DDR2 800 DIMMS for 59 a piece and with a special 15 percent Newegg offer plus free shipping I decided to pull the trigger. And after I Ebay my old RAM I will be only in at a little over a hundred bucks ,which I can live with. So today I installed the 16 GB and booted up. I did not expect to notice any change what so ever from the desktop, but for what ever reason, I do. Things seem a little quicker and slicker, kind of the feeling you got the first time you turned off your pagefile and ran out of RAM with XP. But the real reason for this upgrade was video editing and I am very happy to report that placing the file I want to edit in a 6GB RAM drive made a huge difference. It turned HD editing into an experience that is very much like SD editing. There are no missed frames and performance is quick and silky smooth. So my theory actually worked in practice. And it is kind of cool running 16GB of RAM. I can't help thinking back to how impressed I was when I was able to afford 16 megabytes of 4X4MB DRAM SIMMS installed in my 486DX33. :)
