On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, William R Sherman wrote:
> > Yes. AMD gives you more bang for your buck.
>
> Thanks. That's what I'd heard in the past (which is why my desktop
> system is a Dual 2000+ system, but I wasn't sure whether this was
> still considered to be true.
It's even more true today than it was before - at least that's
my impression. AMD has dropped the prices on their MP capable
chips while Intel is still charging a considerable premium for
the dual capable P4 (you don't want to know how outrageous Intel's
pricing is for 4-way capable P4/Xeons ;(
> Right, I was thinking about a 3-ware IDE Raid. I'll have to compare
> the two.
Is this for protection against a drive failure? DV (or MJPEG)
capture's data rate requirements are extremely modest (in the
~3.5MB/s range - even a notebook drive can sustain that without
breathing hard). Editing doesn't, as a rule, copy multi GB files
around and uses edit lists (at least that's what I've seen - kino
for example).
> > But, I see no mention at all about analog -> DV *conversion*. It
> > will switch/route DV data but I can't see from the description
> > any mention of the conversion. The JX0S777 will accept a DV
>
> Ah right. That hadn't occured to me -- but I guess I thought it
> was a possibility, since I at least thought to ask the question.
At the price they're asking for the JVC unit I couldn't see
how they could include a decent analog to DV converter.
> > It looks like the JXS577 will accept a DV connection from a
> > Canopus ADVC100 (if a 6->4 cable is used) but the impression I
>
> Doesn't the Canopus have a 4 pin cable? Maybe it has both -- I don't
Nope. Both the front and back DV connections are 6 pin. Most
IEEE1394 devices I've seen (I have a Microtek IEEE1394 scanner)
are 6 pin (or 9 pin for the IEEE1394b devices/cards) except for
camcorders - all the miniDV camcorders I've seen have a 4 pin
DV connector.
> address this issue. I may forgo the Canopus for now, since I'll
> probably have other means of doing A/V to DV conversion, and I don't
> want to stretch the budget too far.
Leave the ADVC100 in - who knows, it might not break the bank ;)
So far I haven't read/seen/heard of another unit that's better
for the money.
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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