On the back of my bottleneck thread last week I mentioned I would be getting a new laptop to try and improve my edius performance. This was also taking consideration of the fact that I'm using the internal drive and USB2 external drives.
Previous to this, I'd used the original laptop for cutting 720/25p together without much issue - last week I tried some 720/50p and EDIUS began halting on some sequences. I did make changes to the buffer - but rendering was still needed.
My timeline consisted of a combination of 576p25 and 720/50p
Laptop 1:
ACER 8202 - CoreDuo 1.66ghz 1GB Ram, 100GB 5400rpm internal drive
Laptop 2
ACER 8215 - Core2Duo 2.00ghz 2GB Ram,160GB 5400rpm internal drive - Bluray player
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_TravelMate_8215WLMi_Br_Laptop_LX.TEG06.034/version.asp
Both are really the same models, with an upgraded spec. They both share the travel mate chassis with carbon lid, PCMCIA slot, express slot, 4xUSB, 1xmini firewire. 1680x1050 rez. The 8215 features a Bluray player.
I've used the 8202 comprehensively for mobile editing and it's been fantastic.
The project I'm working on now features a single layer of DVCPRO HD 720/50p with NLE generated slow-mo,region colour correction and a graphic layer.
Stats:
On the 8202 the processor was maxing out at 99% and EDIUS was stumbling - I basically needed to render this segment.
On the 8215 core2duo machine running the same 720/50p sequence the processor maxes out at 53% - now bear in mind the machine is both a core2duo and 25% or so clock speed faster.
The most staggering number is in the rendering to MPEG2 for DVD.
For the 8202 coreduo the 4min 40 sequence took 6mins 20 to render.
The 8215 core2duo took 2mins 47s to render the sequence. Nearly double realtime.
Remember this is all on the internal drive (160GB sata) - but a much bigger jump than I anticipated.
It's almost moot now as the coreduo chip has been superceded, but I thought it made an interesting comparision to help eleminate the bottleneck issue I was having.
Previous to this, I'd used the original laptop for cutting 720/25p together without much issue - last week I tried some 720/50p and EDIUS began halting on some sequences. I did make changes to the buffer - but rendering was still needed.
My timeline consisted of a combination of 576p25 and 720/50p
Laptop 1:
ACER 8202 - CoreDuo 1.66ghz 1GB Ram, 100GB 5400rpm internal drive
Laptop 2
ACER 8215 - Core2Duo 2.00ghz 2GB Ram,160GB 5400rpm internal drive - Bluray player
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_TravelMate_8215WLMi_Br_Laptop_LX.TEG06.034/version.asp
Both are really the same models, with an upgraded spec. They both share the travel mate chassis with carbon lid, PCMCIA slot, express slot, 4xUSB, 1xmini firewire. 1680x1050 rez. The 8215 features a Bluray player.
I've used the 8202 comprehensively for mobile editing and it's been fantastic.
The project I'm working on now features a single layer of DVCPRO HD 720/50p with NLE generated slow-mo,region colour correction and a graphic layer.
Stats:
On the 8202 the processor was maxing out at 99% and EDIUS was stumbling - I basically needed to render this segment.
On the 8215 core2duo machine running the same 720/50p sequence the processor maxes out at 53% - now bear in mind the machine is both a core2duo and 25% or so clock speed faster.
The most staggering number is in the rendering to MPEG2 for DVD.
For the 8202 coreduo the 4min 40 sequence took 6mins 20 to render.
The 8215 core2duo took 2mins 47s to render the sequence. Nearly double realtime.
Remember this is all on the internal drive (160GB sata) - but a much bigger jump than I anticipated.
It's almost moot now as the coreduo chip has been superceded, but I thought it made an interesting comparision to help eleminate the bottleneck issue I was having.
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