Performance

[rando]

I have a Mac Mini at my regular job which I use to edit with in addition to my quad 2.4 at home. the Mini has a CDC 2 2.0 gig and 3 gigs of ram with VISTA I also edit off a Lacie Firewire drive. It edits DV o.k. but a little clunky but when I mix in my Eviore footage (.TOD files mpeg at 1080i) it gets REALLY clunky, its even pretty clunky when I convert the files to Canopus HQ. If I found a way to put a full size SATA drive to edit in place of the firewire drive will it improve my editing experiance?

[Imagine Video]

Have a Look at the ANTEC MX-1 enclosure...........

It comes with a rear mounted e-sata port and cable to connect to any sata 1 or 2 port on the mobo. Then you can pop in a 1TB seagate Baraccuda ES drive for a fast solution.


NOW I have little knowlege with macs so you will need to know what you can and can't do with the motherboard and what it will and will not support!

This settup on a pc will enable editing of HDV and DV is a breeze.

You may want to look at the other possible bottlenecks with your setup. The Lacie Firewire drives as far as I know are not know for there performance:-(

Cath

[STORMDAVE]

Not 100% sure but the minis use laptop cpu's, so keep that in mind....also MPEG2 HD is really heavy and you need a top notch system to handle it all. And I am not even sure how compresed the Everio footage is, it's probably more than HDV...so it eats less space and is more hard to decompress for your CPU.

[rando]

If I converted it to Canopus HQ would that be more CPU intensive or hard drive intensive?

[THoff]

It would be more harddrive intensive -- you are easing the CPU load at the expensve of additional disk space.