[Raymond Ahles]

Now I’m encoding those files to.mp4 – how does 24 hours sound? There’s only a few effects and transitions.

Are these upgrades discussed in this thread going to also improve encoding time? Is CS5.5 going to help?

Any idea if the Matrox CompressHD card would help? Or would PP CS5.5 (with Media Encoder CS5.5) plus the “unlocked” GeForce 9800GTX do the job?

Didn’t realize I was going to need so many upgrades to move into HD and ultimately H.264 for the web.

Thanks,
R

[Raymond Ahles]

That was interesting:

main drive: write 96.7 MB/s; read 85.3 MB/s

external drive: write 31.3 MB/s; read 32.7 MB/s

Thanks.

Other things on the computer?

Currently 3 external drives, same configuration – 2 are on eSATA, one on usb). Only one of these drives is active, others just for access but essentially “sleeping”); printer; monitor; keyboard /mouse (usb) wireless card; some usb and firewire are open and or used for devices that don’t stay connected.

There are six extra available usb connections (these take up two slots) and there are 10 total usb connections available – wireless card is on one slot; the eSATA connections on one slot; the GeForce on one but blocks another;

Actually, the other PCI 2.0 x16 slot is open.

[Raymond Ahles]

Well, now I’m looking at everything.

The hard drive is SATA 7200rpm. But I do have the files on an external WD (My Book Studio Edition II 2 TB) connected with eSATA cable and has a Serial Bus Transfer Rate (eSATA) 3 Gb/s (Max). Probably better to edit on the hard drive directly.

The motherboard slots are labeled as follows (currently all used or covered):

PCI Express x1_1 (a very small slot)
PCIe 2.0 x16_1 (this is where the GeForce 9800GTX is and it covers the small PCI Express x1 slot below)
PCI Express x1_2 (very small same as first slot – currently covered by GeForce card)
PCIe 2.0 x16_2
PCI_1
PCI_2

So I am confused with your statement that

“by the way, PCI16x, PCIex, that’s just different people writing the same thing different ways. It’s all PCIe.”

since there are far more connections (much longer slot) on the PCIe 2.0 x16 than the PCI Express x1

Another helpful article I found suggesting software (upgrading to Windows 7 and PP CS5) can be enough with virtually the same issues I’m having:

https://www.cameralabs.com/PC_Hardware_reviews/Edit_HD_DSLR_video/Best_PC_software_for_editing_HD_DSLR_video.shtml

Anyone else share this opinion or have this experience with Windows 7 over Vista?

Thanks,
R

[Raymond Ahles]

That’s good advice. Thanks.

The first step I took was getting a second camera that records in the same video format. It makes sense to be able to have one sequence setting that matches both files.

The GTX 9800 card I have is CUDA with 128 cores, 512 MB, DDR3. It’s also PCI16x, if that matters much over PCIex.

What video card would you recommend it being worth
upgrading to? Would I see that much difference (as long as it’s unlocked as described in this article:
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm )

Also, in addition to the CS5.5 upgrade, is it worth upgrading the OS to Windows 7 over the 64 bit Vista Home Premium?

R

[Raymond Ahles]

You are correct. I hadn’t rechecked outside of vlc player. Thanks!

[Raymond Ahles]

Ok, I figured out how to do the 872 x 480 but that raised new problems.

Yes, output is correct aspect ratio but the file size is now 16GB and takes a over 20 minutes to complete and when I play the 872 x 480 output video it is nearly in black and white.

Previously, my usual size for these 6-7 minute clips is about 1.5GB in Microsoft AVI format and take about 5 minutes with CS4 (but used to take half that time in CS3).

I never had these problems in CS3 as the output simply matched the source out-of-the-box.

Attached are screen shots of all I’ve tried and the results.

As you can see, the source file looks fine:

But the output shows this in the window and results in a stretched final .avi file (too wide):

These export settings look perfect in the export settings output window:

but as you can see the aspect ratio is off after output (too narrow):

:

the change to 872 x 480 resulted in this (with a file size of 16GB!):

I hope someone here has an idea what is going on.

Thank you,
R Ahles

[Raymond Ahles]

How do I do that?