OT: Hardware opinions sought

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 14:17, Gene Heskett wrote:
>  One should add that just because a system is fast, doesn't
> make it automaticly high quality, that can only come from the hands
> doing the compositing.  Slow systems therefore encourage the student to
> do it right the first time and might well be the better teacher at the
> end of the course.
>
> 
It's not just speed, though, is it?  At the moment I'm doing video editing 
using mjpegtools from the CLI.  I've just processed a 5 minute clip.  It took 
about 10 minutes to create the m2v, a further minute to produce the mp2 and 
another minute to mplex them.  It's not problem, though, as I have enough 
oomph left to do odds and ends of things, which is all I need.  I can 
read/write mail, edit text files, play Spider, and none of them appear to 
have any impact on the main task.  As far as I can see, all that's really 
needed is the ability to carry on with your normal level of work while 
encoding is being done.  Otherwise, encoding can be done overnight - and I've 
done that with very long sections.

Anne
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