on 2/21/05 8:40 PM, Will Schoumaker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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/ > I forgot... part of the deal with the 133 card is that I want to get a REALLY large drive- like 250 gigs, and my 66card only recognizes something like 139 gigs.
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