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Posted by hackerjosh on 12/05/05 05:38
JT wrote:
> Not much about editing benefits from exotic computer hardware. At
> first you may want to do a lot of immediate rendering to see how your
> effects and transitions look, but after you gain experience you'll
> have more and more confidence in what you're doing and save that
> time-consuming process for unusual circumstances.
Yeah, but I expect better performance from the 4200+ X2 processor than
from the Athlon 2400+ computer that I was using. lol.
>
> So for now the only useful way to increase rendering/encoding
> performance is to distribute it across multiple computers by cutting
> it into pieces, or to use dedicated hardware like the Canopus boards.
>
> Thus my personal "ideal/affordable" edit station is something like two
> or three cheap Dell 2.8GHz SC430 "server" computers linked by their
> included 1Gb network, with dual-headed video in one of them.
Maybe that's what I should have done rather than buying this one beefy
computer. How well does Premiere support distributing? I guess if I see
a need for it, I can easily build some rendering boxes with only the
necessary hardware for a pretty good price.
> Of course should your drive die you'll need to restore the video from
> its original source(s), but that's perhaps no more time consuming than
> recreating the broken drive of a raid pair. And I'm ignoring conformed
> audio files, preview files, and any exported/rendered work that you
> have further plans for.The audio files are quick to recreate, the
> preview files are usually throw-aways. I copy important rendered files
> onto another computer when I get nervous.
That's kind of what I was thinking. I plan to do RAID, but do RAID 0
for efficiency, not redundancy. If worse comes to worse, I can reload
all the data from the tapes. I will just need to sensibly name the
consecutive files so it will be easy to recreate them.
> 2. Consider keeping your work on a collection of external drives. At
> 25 cents a GB for good-performing Seagate PATA drives, the storage is
> cheaper than Sony Excellence tape, so you may choose to archive a
> project with the potential of a future revisit that way. For the
> moment USB 2 is faster than the fastest commonly available drives, and
> $10 buys you a caseless interface that lets you pick up a drive and
> plug it in with no fuss.
This question might not relate to the original thread, but since we're
on the issue of hard drives, how should I archive projects? If I want
to be able to go back to a completed project and make changes to it,
how is the best way to store it. I thought of deleting the
preview/render files if necessary and just save it to a fresh hard
drive. I guess my question is: how well do hard drives / MiniDV tapes
store? Would they still be good after sitting on the shelf for 3 years?
> Memory
>
> Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding I've never looked at my
> performance monitor and seen Premiere having used more than 375 MB.
> The computer is dedicated to that one job, of course.
Is this 375MB while just editing or is it even when rendering? How
about other software like After Effects?
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