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Posted by Smarty on 01/26/06 23:15
Chris,
I'm really not so sure the disk is indeed the bottleneck.
Since normal DV capture has exactly the same data rate as HDV, and is
captured correctly by Paul's system, I am much more suspicious of the CPU
and / or perhaps the bus speed of his PC.
The codec has a lot more work to do in encoding the incoming HDV stream, and
this is where the CPU and bus are probably the issue.
I've been doing HDV editing on both the PC and Macs for quite some time now,
and some of the capture software works a lots better and does permit
non-real time buffering if the CPU can't keep up.
As Paul indicates, iMovie HD on the Mac does an amazing job, and slower,
older Macs like the G4 / G5 laptops or my wife's MacMini seem to capture HDV
and edit it quite adequately.
The closest consumer HDV editing program I have found which seems to work
well on slower, older PCs in Ulead's Video Studio 9.
Cycberlink's new version of Power Director is also quite good in this
regard, but is a bit buggy, as is Ahead Nero Vision in its' latest HDV
editing and capture.
If someone is forced to use a slow PC, then I would stick with Ulead VS9
despite its' limited feature set. Like iMovieHD for the Mac, it works well
and quickly.
Having said all of the above, a really fast dual processor box is really the
preferred solution for HDV editing. Even the dual G5 Mac is marginal when
using the professional grade Final Cut Studio Pro HD.
Smarty
"Chris" <filmoffice@telkomsa.net> wrote in message
news:dracgt$g24$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...
> Try installing RAID drives either SATA or conventional. It is the spped od
> the drives causing the bottleneck
> Chris
>
> "Paul Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> wrote in message
> news:1138255146_2@pnews.internode.on.net...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Sony HDR-HC1. My PC is a little under-powered (2.5GHz P4, 1G
>> RAM), and this seems to be causing Premiere Pro 1.5.1 to struggle to
>> capture HDV from the camera. (It captures SD down-converted in-camera
>> just fine.) In fact, "struggle" is probably understating the
>> problem---essentially no usable footage is captured, it has various
>> artefacts throughout.
>>
>> Interestingly, my humble PowerBook G4 (1G RAM) has no trouble (using
>> iMovie HD). What I've noticed, though, is that iMovie HD will capture
>> the footage in slower than real-time if required. Premiere Pro doesn't
>> seem to be trying this, though I'm not sure where or how iMovie HD is
>> buffering the data, or whether it's actually possible to slow down the
>> data rate from the camera.
>>
>> Is there a PC-based solution for me here, short of an upgrade? For
>> example, is there a lighter-weight application with which I can do the
>> capture, and then edit with Premiere Pro later?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul.
>>
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