Pentium v Celeron

[Cuyler]

I use a Celeron 2GHz and have no complaints. The capture
has to be done in 'real time' no matter what chip you
have. The editing (José said editing but believe he meant
encoding) may be a tad faster with more 'horsepower'
but even then, figure on many hours as José mentioned.

I do my encoding when leaving for work, going to bed, or
watching a movie in the family room. Doing background PC
stuff while encoding can affect the final product so I
leave the PC completely alone, even turn off the
screensaver and close all open apps.

My 2¢ worth.

 

[Jose]

I don't have much experience with background activity. I usually avoid it
because I do not want to cause a crash and have to start over, but I would
not have thought that it could affect the quality. Encoding is not a
realtime task anyway. It occurs as the computer is able to get to it. Can
anyone else add to this? PapaJohn?

I use a Celeron 2GHz and have no complaints. The capture
has to be done in 'real time' no matter what chip you
have. The editing (José said editing but believe he meant
encoding) may be a tad faster with more 'horsepower'
but even then, figure on many hours as José mentioned.

I do my encoding when leaving for work, going to bed, or
watching a movie in the family room. Doing background PC
stuff while encoding can affect the final product so I
leave the PC completely alone, even turn off the
screensaver and close all open apps.

My 2¢ worth.

 

[Cuyler]

That's a really good point you make PapaJohn. The
encoding IS a processor thing and if you're multi-tasking
(there's a phrase I haven't used in awhile), the CPU is
able to place instructions on 'que' as they come in, and
theoretically, nothing is lost, so the encoding process
should be ok.

I don't have the hardware for exporting, but importing,
as you say, is really hard-drive dependent, and if it
can't keep up with the flow of data coming in.....DROPPED
FRAMES!!!

I may experiment with some test video to do some brief
encoding while doing other tasks to see how my system
holds up.

 

[The March Hare \(MVP\)]

Any work done on the computer does, by definition, use up

processing resources. Ergo, encoding AND doing routine
computer activity MAY, I say MAY, affect the final output.

How?

 

[Cuyler]

The most obvious instance is when an app 'locks up' the
PC. At this point, the encoding may still be running or
it may be suspended, or it may be on and off.

If you're surfing the net, you're constantly downloading
cookies and temp files. All this uses up resources and
can easily cause a 'burp' in the processor.

I'm sure there's countless others as well.