Dumb question of the day

[Tom Matthies]

Just regular clips in standard SD. Things are working pretty much as normal here. No new problems to prompt this thread. It just seems that if a machine can render a 30 minute show in eight minutes then the computer should have the horsepower to play the sequence back in real time. If it can render 90 frames each second to disk, you’d think that it would be able to playback 30 frames a second out of the I/O!?

I can’t really complain though. Eight minutes to render a simple 30 minute show isn’t too bad. I just always wondered about this point. We’re all getting spoiled as the Macs get faster and faster.
Tom