OT- Anyone Build their own PC?

[Bstanley]

It can also render Full HD H.264 files in near real-time, which is a huge change. In the past, rendering a 45 show was an overnight affair.

A 45 minute show took 8 hours to create a H.264 HD version from raw sources?

Curious questions:

How much memory?

What speed processor (I'm assuming Quad-Core)?

 

[MarkBarbieri]

A 45 minute show took 8 hours to create a H.264 HD version from raw sources?

Curious questions:

How much memory?

What speed processor (I'm assuming Quad-Core)?

It was a Quad Core. I think it was a Q6600 running at 2.4ghz. I had 8 gig of RAM. That was the time to render a composite of HDV footage and AVCHD footage converted using Neoscene. That also included mixing a couple of audio tracks. It also included some video filters. It took longer than 8 hours. I think it was more like 12 hours.

 

[Bstanley]

It also included some video filters.

I would bet that this was the operative part of the 'discussion' - although I'll admit that since I am relatively clueless when it comes to AVCHD so for all I know it might take a significant effort just to unfurl each frame of an AVCHD video.

So a 12 hour task now takes 45 minutes, sweet. I would say that was a pretty fair ROI.