Is the video card involved in encoding? What are the most important hardware items for encoding? Cores, bus speed, RAM, HHD size and transfer rate. I'm trying to ballpark encoding times. Just get a general idea of time frame. I'm shooting and editing HDV in HD or SD I don't yet know. Does anyone use an encoding service? I have some two hour titles. An encoding service goes for 5 gig for $20.
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Is the video card involved in encoding?
What are the most important hardware items for encoding? Cores, bus speed, RAM, HHD size and transfer rate.
RAM, HDD size and transfer rate have little to do with encoding. For editing and transfers, faster drives may help, but unless you are working with raw video, a regular 7200RPM HDD should be more than sufficient. I set up most of my PCs with a small, fast boot drive. I'm using a 120GB SSD at present, but the former 10KRPM 150GB Raptor was almost as fast. For the other two or three drives, I'm using 1.5TB Samsung HDDs. You need lots of room for HD.
I'm trying to ballpark encoding times. Just get a general idea of time frame.
I'm shooting and editing HDV in HD or SD I don't yet know. Does anyone use an encoding service? I have some two hour titles. An encoding service goes for 5 gig for $20. -
And just to be clear: it also depends on the software you are using and the graphics card's drivers. All must support GPU acceleration. Some examples:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/828-1/h-264-encoding-cpu-vs-gpu-nvidia-cuda-amd-str...-and-x264.html
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jagabo: Thanks for the link.
redwudz: speed vs cores - "When I used a quad core 3.6Ghz CPU, my BD>MKV encoding times were about six hours. With a six core CPU at 3.7Ghz, the times are down to about 4 hours. But the encoding time depends on the video content and the length of the video." Questions: What size was the file? How many min was the BD movie? I assume the two cores increase and not the 0.1 speed increase accounted for the two hour encoding time reduction.Depends what the definition of the word inhale is.
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