Listed requirements for Creator 2009, Here, strike many as too low, but are they?
From the tests I ran, it would seem not.
The test at 512 MB also included Firewire (1394) capture in both DV AVI as well as mpeg2.
Likewise Plug & Burn was done too (Capture and Burning to DVD at the same time)
However! I was running a PC with a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 and did NO Multitasking during any of these tests!
I would suspect that if you were to try the same tests with a Celeron or a CPU of 1.0 GHz you are going to see greatly increased times and something like the Plug & Burn may fail.
But it must be understood that you cannot buy a new PC for $500 and think for one minute that it is going to run like a $2,000+ PC!!! Or that a 2.0 GHz Celeron is going to perform like a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4!
Of Note: My Video Card is not the best and there was no significant difference between Software or Hardware Rendering. There would probably a greater spread between them if a better card were available.
In all cases except the compliant mpg file render, CPU was running between 98 and 100%
And yes, that 15 minute render with a competing product was pretty impressive! The 1:20 hour render, less so!
Absolutely, However…
Listed requirements for Creator 2009, Here, strike many as too low, but are they?
From the tests I ran, it would seem not.
The test at 512 MB also included Firewire (1394) capture in both DV AVI as well as mpeg2.
Likewise Plug & Burn was done too (Capture and Burning to DVD at the same time)
However! I was running a PC with a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 and did NO Multitasking during any of these tests!
I would suspect that if you were to try the same tests with a Celeron or a CPU of 1.0 GHz you are going to see greatly increased times and something like the Plug & Burn may fail.
But it must be understood that you cannot buy a new PC for $500 and think for one minute that it is going to run like a $2,000+ PC!!! Or that a 2.0 GHz Celeron is going to perform like a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4!
Of Note: My Video Card is not the best and there was no significant difference between Software or Hardware Rendering. There would probably a greater spread between them if a better card were available.
In all cases except the compliant mpg file render, CPU was running between 98 and 100%
And yes, that 15 minute render with a competing product was pretty impressive! The 1:20 hour render, less so!
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