From: ansberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:18:21 -0600
on 2/21/05 1:50 PM, Gregg Gorrie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 2/21/05 5:09 AM, Alan Kim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> ansberry wrote:
>>
>>> I know that this old dinosaur will never really blaze through a DVD
>>> rendering/burning, but I'd like to get it down to 10 to 12 hours. What do
>>> you guys think? Would I be better off with the ide133 card?
Based on various tests and info from others and my experiences over the years I'd say no to the ide133 card.(unless yours is one of the VST ATA 66 cards) The card ratings and especially Hard drive ratings are lies and damn lies! It is a marketing game to get people to trade up to the newest and fastest. In our older machines the fastest your going to get is maybe 32-35 MB/sec and in most cases it will be slower. My Quantum IDE drives hooked to a Sonnet/Acard ATA 66 card both test at 32-34 MB/sec and maybe a bit more. My newer Seagate drives will only do 25MB/sec or so. Now before the "buy a new machine" cheerleaders speak up ;-) Even a new G5 machine which uses the newer SATA drive interface and drives only benches at 39-55 MB /sec. depending on drive used. The G4 Quicksilver machines seem to be the first to show much speed improvement from faster rated Cards and drives. To get more speed in any of the machines you would need to hook 2 drives together in a Raid setup or go with the way too expensive for most of us high end SCSI. I do see an improvement in hard drives going from 4200 RPM to 5400 RPM to 7200 RPM drives.
Thanks for the info. I guess I'm lucky. I don't have any trouble capturing
from my camera to my ide drive attached to the ata66 card. It does get some
very slight blocky glitches when I encode the video, but I've been told that
that is a problem with the Toast compression.
Mike
I was going to ask for more info but now have a pretty good idea of what your doing. I do a far amount of Video work on my Umax machine and find it still does what I need it to. It sounds like your using Toast to encode & author DV to DVD. It is very likely that is one of the issues slowing things down and lowering quality. I've tried it many times and always found it slow and disappointing quality. In fact I just tried a newer version(of Toast) last week. It was faster but still poor quality with some blocky glitches. By poor quality I mean compared to the way I now encode and Author. I use "ffmpegX" faster and great quality and did I mention it's free/shareware! I mostly do video to CDR. It takes 5-6 hours to encode apox 45-50 min of video to SVCD on a CDR disk. Plays fine on most DVD stand alone players. Toast takes apox twice as long. My Umax machine has a G4 CPU running at 533 MHz . I have also done video to DVD but not yet timed it. I've been paying 10-15 cents for quality TDK CDR disks and DVD disks until recently have been $2.00 or more even on sale. I just picked up 50 DVD-R disks for $12.50 so will be using more in the near future. I highly recommend giving ffmpegX a try. It has a lot of options so will take a number of trial runs to find the settings that work best for you. Lots of how to info at the site and there is also a forum for help. I'm guessing your using OSX you don't mention. It is also important that your OSX boot drive isn't too full. Any less then 20% empty space and you will see a slow down. Best of luck Will S
"ffmpegX" is @ http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
-- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
--------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
