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To: rudedog who wrote (138567)	7/3/2001 1:57:55 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Rudedog, sounds like you are well along in DV editing! Further along than I am...I'm trying to "keep it simple" with just my iMovie 2, Firewire, and DV. No big RAID arrays, no MPEG digitizers. <<Tim - thanks for the insights. I had been using Studio DV from Pinnacle - it came with my Presario. I upgraded to a Matrox 2500 system. If you have not tried it, you will be "dazzled" - it does input and conversion to various formats including MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 in real time, and you can edit effects and see the results on a separate monitor, also in real time. That came with Adobe Premier, and a bunch of other tools for DV crazies.>> It sounds like you are well along in DV editing, so you won't be likely to make a platform switch. Good luck! If you like Premiere, my understanding from all of the reviews I have seen is that FinalCut Pro is superior to Premiere. (Premiere originally was introduced by Adobe for the Mac, back around 1992 or so, about the same time the "Video Spigot" was a hot item for digitzing. It later was ported to Windows, of course. The point is, Apple may well do the same thing with FinalCut Pro, though their days of trying to support Windows, as through Claris products, seem to be over...for now.) <<I have a pair of Adaptec 2400 IDE RAID arrays, each running 4 80GB 7200 RPM drives in a stripe set, each on its own PCI bus, for a total of 640GB. Those babies can move some data. Each of the 8 drives has its own 100MB channel, and with striping and 128MB Cache on the controller I don't seem to have a lot of problems with disk bandwidth.>> That's a _lot_ of disk space! And I thought my 80 GB Maxtor Firewire drive was a lot of storage. (Though as I digitize more video, I can see the handwriting on the wall.) << With 2 21 inch monitors running 1600 x 1200 and an S-video out to the TV Monitor, the single 1GHz processor sometimes gets bogged down, which is why I am going to a 2P system. I have a 2P ASUS MB but it doesn't have an AGP slot - it's a server board - so I'm looking at an Iwill board. >> Are you working at higher than DV resolutions? It seems to me that your old video tapes will not even be 280 lines (horizontal resolution), let alone the 500 or so of DV. No harm in oversampling, of course, but too much "fake resolution" (resolution not in the source) just eats up CPU and disk bandwidth. I'm just using the default DV resolutions for everything. <<BTW I'm doing the same thing you are - getting 25 years of home video onto DVD. I suppose I could just blow it onto DVD but I want to have something people would actually want to look at. So I'm doing slices - Christmas over 25 years, Kid's birthdays, other kinds of significant events. To do that I'm breaking the video into bite sized chunks with a little indexing, so I can assemble stuff easily. >> Yeah, but it's a daunting prospect, isn't? I have a few dozen old 8mm and Hi-8 tapes, plus some old home movies my father took that my brother thoughtfully had transferred to VHS tape, plus a bunch of S-VHS tapes of stuff from a little handheld Sony RUVI camera (30-min, non-removable tape...a great little camcorder for candid shots). I could probably spend months doing this. Should I? I haven't decided yet. <<It's amazing how fast you can burn up storage with DV. But with the price of disk where it is, I will probably just add more and leave it all on line. I am just converting to a gigabit backplane so I could even move that big data around pretty easily. >> Yeah, the disk drive makers must be loving this... Keep us informed. This is actually thread-relevant, more so than a lot of posts, because digital video may turn out to be one of the driving forces for people to upgrade to newer and faster PCs. (With IEEE-1394/Firewire for easy connection to DV sources, with huge disks, fast CPUs, etc.) It will be ironic if once again Microsoft and Wintel get credit for making home video editing easy. (As a Mac user, frustrating. As an Intel shareholder, I'm happy to see more high-end systems sold.) --Tim May