I have an Asus aq7v8x motherboard (FSB 2x133)with a 2.0 Ghz AMD Athlon
XP processor. It's a bit slow for some of the vfideo tasks I set it,
so I'm thinking of upgrading with a Novatech bundle.
They're offering a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz processor with an unnamed
motherboard running on the Intel 865PE chipset.
My question - will I actually see a speed increase in video
applications?
Some of the things I noticed with my AMD 64 3000 vs the AMD 3200
athlon I had ---- when Im using TMPGenc for instance , with my old
3200 my system would grind to a halt in terms of doing anything else.
It still takes a long time to encode video on my AMD 64 -- theres a
bit of time savings but the main thing is I can do other things while
that whole process is going on instead of other processes running in
uper slow motion making them useless with my older system.
The other thing video editing etc. I havent tried the main editors
from Pinnacle, Ulead, Adobe etc. since I switched over. The main thing
I noticed was the app itself. I used to use Pinnacle the really dumbed
down P Studio app because it was so ridiculously easy to use though a
very basic editor. The problem is , it crashed a lot and was super
slow, especially if you cut and paste and then it rendered the video
again you had lots of time while it did its thing. I was using 1 gig
in both systems too in fact the same sticks of mem.
TMPGEnc came out with a super basic editor - actually all I see as a
feature is cut thats all. Im not even sure it can paste. I use it to
cut commercials out of recorded stuff. The say it uses a different
approach , it only renders the changed part of the video not the whole
thing - something like that, Anyway its super fast and super easy. If
this is a new technique that all editors are using nowadays - I dont
know much about and like I said I havent used the mainstream more
featured editors since my old Athlon system -- then maybe the entire
field of editors is much faster now. Its literally mark off the strip
you want to cut and then snip and then when you want to output it
takes a minute or two , zip and then its done. Im talking about a 30
minute mpeg2 file in DVD res.
I remember in Pinnacle with my Athlon you would have this filmstrip ,
frames of the video you loaded and moving back and forwards to go to
areas you want to cut and paste was very sluggish. And when you wanted
to render the video it took a long time. So basically Im saying its
part the new software Im using probably a lot has to do wth it and
part hardware and at least for this editor , its super fast TMPGenc
Mpeg editor but its super basic. Only cutting as I said - I cant find
any pasting feature or any other features except joing two existing
video files.
