Now I remember why the hell you don't edit video on laptops...

[EyeMWing]

Long ago, I was one of the resident lords of video editing. but recently, I've been getting back into it, with some friends. Anyway, I have 4hrs of tape to load into a PC, and I'm just now remembering the uncompressed AVI time ratios....

10gb = 1hr. This all has to go onto my laptop... Which has a 60gb HDD. Crap

 

[Heisenberg]

Preserving that 80s pr0n for posterity huh?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Preserving that 80s pr0n for posterity huh?

Not unless 80's pr0n came on DVC tapes.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Preserving that 80s pr0n for posterity huh?

Nice...

 

[ElFenix]

i'm not seeing the problem

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Editing video only happens on my desktop (160 GB x 3). It'd be a nightmare on the laptop, only have like 35 GB free on the 80 GB (71, stupid 1024/1000 thing) drive.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Editing video only happens on my desktop (160 GB x 3). It'd be a nightmare on the laptop, only have like 35 GB free on the 80 GB (71, stupid 1024/1000 thing) drive.

Well, the thing is that I'm not the editor on this project, which is why it has to go onto my laptop - for transport to the editor. I would've loaded it directly onto her machine, but, uh, she's moving Saturday, and I haven't configged the RAID0 160gb's on her machine yet.

And my laptop only has... Like, 2gb free after it's done the tape I'm on.... And I'm on the second damned tape.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Preserving that 80s pr0n for posterity huh?

Not unless 80's pr0n came on DVC tapes.

Why are you calling it uncompressed then? DVC is compressed video (just not Mpeg2 Compressed), which you can do a byte for byte transfer to the laptop in it's native format. You can then transcode it to whatever format, but, going to uncompressed AVI wouldn't buy you anything but wasted space?

Unless I've missed something. Perhaps I'm thinking MiniDV and you are talking something else?

 

[keeleysam]

Video editing works nicely on my Acer Core Duo notebook with 2GB of RAM and a 120GB SATA drive

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: dman

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Preserving that 80s pr0n for posterity huh?

Not unless 80's pr0n came on DVC tapes.

Why are you calling it uncompressed then? DVC is compressed video (just not Mpeg2 Compressed), which you can do a byte for byte transfer to the laptop in it's native format. You can then transcode it to whatever format, but, going to uncompressed AVI wouldn't buy you anything but wasted space?

Unless I've missed something. Perhaps I'm thinking MiniDV and you are talking something else?

DVC and MiniDV are synonymous. And Premiere works natively in uncompressed AVI so it loads the hard drives to show you the video instead of the both the hard drives and CPU - thus allowing a smoother, quicker process.

 

[EyeMWing]

Camera 2 = worthless. Why is this douchebag on this project? That's 25% of the damned footage consisting of an unusably wide shot and HORRIBLY un-steady picture. I told these motherfvckers that letting him get involved was a bad idea.

 

[Rubycon]

Firewire 800 drives folks.

 

[secretanchitman]

external USB2/firewire400-800 drives are a good solution!

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Firewire 800 drives folks.

.......... Firewire 800... Hard drive?

Firewire 400 is 4 times faster than you're going to get out of any drive, and 8 times faster than you're going to really ever need, hon

 

[Whitecloak]

throw a printer at it!

 

[mrSHEiK124]

I miss my 120 GB FireWire drive. Good thing I have a nice 160 GB one to replace it! (Long story)

I'm working on editing some video ATM actually, class project, movie on the Great Gatsby. Its nice, it has LIGHTSABERS!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Firewire 400 is 4 times faster than you're going to get out of any drive, and 8 times faster than you're going to really ever need, hon

In real life 400Mbps 1394 gives about 35-40 MB/S R/W performance. The newest SATA drives will do double that so 800 IS justified. We have terabytes of storage on these things used by a video system with hundreds of cameras shipwide. Works great.

 

[JMWarren]

Originally posted by: Whitecloak
throw a printer at it!

I don't know why that made me laugh so hard...

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Video editing works nicely on my Acer Core Duo notebook with 2GB of RAM and a 120GB SATA drive

Sure it does, Sam. Sure it does.

Now quit bragging.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Video editing works nicely on my Acer Core Duo notebook with 2GB of RAM and a 120GB SATA drive

Sure it does, Sam. Sure it does.

Now quit bragging.

But the Firewire port is only 4-pin!

 

[thomsbrain]

WTF? use an external drive. your problem is hard drive space, so fix it. it doesn't have anything to do with it being a laptop. i loaded 16 hours of DV "onto" my 60GB laptop... OMG guess how i did it?

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Long ago, I was one of the resident lords of video editing. but recently, I've been getting back into it, with some friends. Anyway, I have 4hrs of tape to load into a PC, and I'm just now remembering the uncompressed AVI time ratios....

10gb = 1hr. This all has to go onto my laptop... Which has a 60gb HDD. Crap

FYI - 1hr of DV is 13GB, not 10GB.

 

[EyeMWing]

GOD DAMMIT! I ran out of tape 6 seconds from the end of the last tape. DFJSFJDSKHFJKDSHJKGFDKJjkDFJL

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Long ago, I was one of the resident lords of video editing. but recently, I've been getting back into it, with some friends. Anyway, I have 4hrs of tape to load into a PC, and I'm just now remembering the uncompressed AVI time ratios....

10gb = 1hr. This all has to go onto my laptop... Which has a 60gb HDD. Crap

FYI - 1hr of DV is 13GB, not 10GB.

Yeah. I was just having a brain fart there, these are 60min tapes but only have like 45 on them, and are producing ~10gb AVIs.