VE7AXO: mdriggs: VE7AXO: Drive speed/latency must have some negative effect (dropped frames?) on streaming video (not file-based video) because NLE's such as Liquid recommend 7200 RPM (min.) drives for video media storage (import/export). It could if it were really bad, but Liquid is how old? As data densities on the drive ...

Davilex:I just build-in a new SATA3 SSD, the Crucial M4 128GB.Wow, what a fast boot-up time.I tuned Win-7 for optimal usage with a SSD. But if the render process is faster due to the SSD ...., I don't know.Easy enough to draw sensible conclusions based on a comparative bench - you seem to be running on top-of-the-range hw so why don't you give ...

jjn:Wow, this has gone badly wrong already... I used the AVCHD PS3 full HD preset, not the PSP mp4 one. That is an old codec and I doubt s15 or AvSo will be optimised. I think we should start again. Here is what I propose. To make the test footage, take Our Nature Adventure in any program and render it to the 1920 24Mbs full HD AVCHD/bluray ...

S14.0.1.7256 ........... 13 sec AS1.1 ...........14 sec (avg of 3 runs each) As Richard says ................... CPU sitting at a measly 34% avg and seeing ''activity'' on 6 of 8 ''cores'' (4+2HT?) in W7 64 here.  

The project format is set for NTSC progressive   That's not on - your camera shot the material in interlaced so in order to retain max quality, your DVD should be created using an interlaced setting too.   Questions: 1. Was the material shot on the actual camera you are using to play-back/capture with? 2. Is is in fact a NTSC ...

jjn:To make a statement that HHD's contribute nothing to a systems bottleneck is ridiculous to say the least.That clearly shows you don't understand the meaning of the word bottleneck in this context. If  a motorway is down to one lane between junctions 2 and 3, making it wider between junctions 3 and 4 isn't going to alleviate the ...

KentuckyRanger:I never meant to start some tech war here. All I know is what I've witnessed since installing the Samsung SSD, I can't sit hear and spout off all the technical details and play dueling Tech quotes, I just know the difference in performance since installing my SSD. To make a statement that HHD's contribute nothing to a systems ...

Thanks Richard - as usual you make a lot of calm sense and supplied good reference info and material.   KentuckyRanger: Just to further demonstrate that SSDs are not yet the golden goose, in S14 (and also AS1.1), the machine in my profile chuggs along at 134f/s doing the same (PAL) DV-avi to mpeg-2 conversion Richard mentioned while using ...

KentuckyRanger:: I was running 3 WD Raptor HHD's when the boot drive gave out on me.   Back then I was having to wait quite a while until effects etc would render, I had an older system that would take so long I'd get up and make something to eat and watch TV for a while before I could continue.   Then when creating a ...

KentuckyRanger: I've been running it on my old monster for a while now and I can tell you I'm rendering over 4X faster with the SSD. ...........................................  Well - not looking to start an argument at all but I have to call BS on that.    If you are seeing 4X faster render times with SSDs you ...