James_j
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I dunno, but I recently built a new workstation with a SATA system drive that absolutely _refused_ to perform up to speed.
I hadn’t heard about SATA cables being flaky, now I wish I’d tried a few others. I have yet to receive a locking cable. Anyway, ultimately I stuck an old EIDE drive in it to get it working.
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I understand. But to reduce the complexity of the system so you can locate the source of the lockups I don’t think you have much choice.
Anyway, all that storage can be kept online without using RAID, if it comes to that. Just stick em all in cheap external 1394/usb2 cases.
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With all those drives hooked up I’m not too surprised. Do you really need those RAIDs for anything or are they just complicating things?
Anyway, to test it I’d disconnect the RAIDS and just capture to any single drive.
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That’s a fairly new system; I doubt you’d see more than a 1.3X increase. Waste of effort; just try to schedule your rendering time overnight. Or on a different system.
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All else being equal, your choice of motherboard will not significantly decrease your rendering time. Neither will the amount of RAM, assuming you aren’t hitting your page file (In WinXP 512mb is enough; 1g is better).
Yes, if your only intended output is DVD then you may as well render straight to mpeg2.
Vegas is already optimized afaik.
Don’t expect to see a 4X decrease in rendering time unless you too are coming from a much older CPU.
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There must be quite a difference between those systems to render 4X as fast. Normally, the most you could expect from simply adding another core would be 2X, usually less – like around 1.3X.
Since I do all my rendering at low priority in the background, it doesn’t really matter how fast it is. Only that I’ve scheduled my time properly.
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FRAPS is perfect for this. Not free, but cheap.
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This is _probably_ a playback problem on your computer. Only way I would think to test it would be to burn a DVD/SVCD and try it on your TV. Or send it back out to tape and do the same.
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My Vegas photo montage template is up to about 315 photos. I always batch resize them to 720X480 before sending them to Vegas.
My wedding invitations are resized to 2560X1920 so I can zoom in and pan. Always worked great.
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Well, forcing SCLive to either 32k or 48k had no effect at all.
But I’ve finally heard back from the shooter. He used a PD170 which apparently has no 4 channel audio capability, so all his stuff is on 1&2. The camera must write enough data to 3&4 to fool SCLive into capturing it, but it’s just 32khz ghosts of channels 1&2.