Paul Haddon wrote:
..snip.....
Some of the stuff Paul has mentioned has jogged my memory and I
apologies for posting copious references about other OSs, but it may
give some people a guide.
> Editing video is a simple process:
>
> - buy a computer with the fastest CPU & graphics card you can afford
The win98 software that I had to fix was only a K6-2-450 and the usual
rule is that things run better under linux than the other one. However,
this bit of software allowed you to make up a layout/schema (jargon?),
then tell it to render (create the final product). It makes logical
sense, to me, for all video editing software to do this.
If wages were involved, $5,000+ on a new machine is chicken feed, but
for home, naah. The final rendering will just take longer.
> - buy insane amounts of fast hard disk storage to boot
The particular other os software wanted a certain data transfer rate
(>4kb/sec), which should be easily met by a modern IDE hard disk. The
other os had a particular problem with meeting this requirements (yep,
something was causing it not to handle hard disks properly). Once the
installation sequence of everything was sorted out and remained stable,
that other OS managed 20Kb/sec okay. So my guess is that linux should
have no trouble. The doco still talked about having the data on a
seperate disk to the system and using scsi, but this was in the context
of that other OS and for home stuff (where wages are not being taken
into account), it shouldn't be a problem.
We fitted a 27Gb hard disk, which I think gave him a minimum of 40
minutes, but the software would only store 18min (file size limit under
that other os). The doco should give you some guidance on time/storage
requirments.
> - plug camcorder into firewire port on PC
> - suck video from camcorder onto hard disk
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