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Blu-Ray Recording
I am looking to upgrade my HDD camcorder to HD. Fine but then I need a way to archive in HD quality. I can get a Blu-Ray recorder drive for the PC for about £150 which seems okay. So two questions
What is the ideal spec for the host PC? I have a dual core 2GHz / 2 GB based Vista Home Prem at the mo but it does struggle with video encoding. Whilst processor speed helps is this not a memory intensive function? What is the cheapest source for BD recordable discs? sorry, three questions Best software for editing and authoring BDs from the HD Camcorder? Actually 4 questions: My JVC saves in .MOD format. Actually .MPG but a pain in the arse to rename each file in a sequence of 100+ as not many software packages can use MOD files . So advice please on the most user friendly camera in terms of file format compatibility |
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The PC questions would be better asked in the Computing and Networking Forum
Cheap BD discs - What, other than stealing them? OK, not the answer you're looking for. Have you tried PriceRunner or PriceGrabber as a starting point to search for lowest price consumables like this? There are specialist forum sites for movie-making enthusiasts. Try DVdoctor as a good start point. You'll probably find answers there to everything you asked. ![]() Hope this helps Regards Chris |
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Cheers. Thanks for the reply and you are right about the forum. I was thinking from a HDD Camera perspective, but the questions were not!
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actually I believe my last question may belong here: Quote:
My JVC saves in .MOD format. Actually .MPG but a pain in the arse to rename each file in a sequence of 100+ as not many software packages can use MOD files . So advice please on the most user friendly camera in terms of file format compatibility
If anyone has advice it would be gratefully received
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From what I can gather, HD editing requires as much power as you can possibly muster!
My core2duo 2Ghz with 3 gb of ram did manage to edit a 10 min HD clip down to a 1 min clip using Premier Elements 7 and it took 10 mins to convert to H264 MPG and both cores of the CPU were at 100% ... interestingly the ram showed as 1.5gb pagefile so I assume I was ok there..... but I didn't add fancy effects or such like to the clip, it was simply cutting a big file into a smaller one. The whole process was a bit sluggish though, and I'm on XP Pro by the way. It seems that ideally you have a quad core, as much ram as possible, bearing in mind Windows 32bit doesn't work with anything much above 3.12Gb of ram, so you might want Vista 64 bit which would allow many gigabytes of ram. Oh and fast hard drives seem useful too! I think it's much like when DV video camcorders appeared over 10 years ago, PC's couldn't really cope with the demands and now the same has happened with HD editing. Take a look at the Simply DV site and forum for some great help and advice. |
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From what I can gather, HD editing requires as much power as you can possibly muster!
My core2duo 2Ghz with 3 gb of ram did manage to edit a 10 min HD clip down to a 1 min clip using Premier Elements 7 and it took 10 mins to convert to H264 MPG and both cores of the CPU were at 100% ... interestingly the ram showed as 1.5gb pagefile so I assume I was ok there..... but I didn't add fancy effects or such like to the clip, it was simply cutting a big file into a smaller one. The whole process was a bit sluggish though, and I'm on XP Pro by the way. It seems that ideally you have a quad core, as much ram as possible, bearing in mind Windows 32bit doesn't work with anything much above 3.12Gb of ram, so you might want Vista 64 bit which would allow many gigabytes of ram. Oh and fast hard drives seem useful too! I think it's much like when DV video camcorders appeared over 10 years ago, PC's couldn't really cope with the demands and now the same has happened with HD editing. Take a look at the Simply DV site and forum for some great help and advice. |
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