On Wednesday 12 April 2006 14:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > One should add that just because a system is fast, doesn't > make it automaticly high quality, that can only come from the hands > doing the compositing. Slow systems therefore encourage the student to > do it right the first time and might well be the better teacher at the > end of the course. > > It's not just speed, though, is it? At the moment I'm doing video editing using mjpegtools from the CLI. I've just processed a 5 minute clip. It took about 10 minutes to create the m2v, a further minute to produce the mp2 and another minute to mplex them. It's not problem, though, as I have enough oomph left to do odds and ends of things, which is all I need. I can read/write mail, edit text files, play Spider, and none of them appear to have any impact on the main task. As far as I can see, all that's really needed is the ability to carry on with your normal level of work while encoding is being done. Otherwise, encoding can be done overnight - and I've done that with very long sections. Anne
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