Hi folks,
Just looking to bounce a few ideas and have some feedback.
I transfer home videos and reels for clients.
I have a G4, G5, 2006 Mac Pro and 2009 Mac Pro. They do various tasks with the 09 being my 'main machine.
I need a PC for a new reel transfer device coming.
I could buy one. or I could buy a new mac pro and use the 09 with bootcamp/parallels etc... to act as the PC.
Or I make an hackintosh and use the 09 as the PC.
My reasoning for a new pro or hackintosh has to do with mpeg2 compression. My 09 is a quad 2.66 so using bitvice, it takes a 2 hour SD video approximately 1 hour 15 mins (with high quality settings) to create the m2v
I have a colleague using a PC, built cheaper of course then a Mac Pro - 6 cores, lots of ram and his takes.....15 mins for a similar file (quality settings, duration etc....).
The 2 bottlenecks for my business are:
1. the actual transfer time for which I can do nothing about - if a camcorder tape runs 2 hours, it takes 2 hours to transfer.
2. the compression time. Usually i do my transferring during the day, a few quick edits, prep the files and run overnight. Still much faster than the 06 MP, but still....any time savings equals money b/c i can turn projects around faster.
But the question is: what should I do? Any suggestions? thoughts? I could use my 06 with compressor except:
1. compressor's output quality wise, is not as good as bitvice
and 2. oh ya, i can never get compressor to work right over a network with more than 1 file (yes, after multiple calls to Apple's support and issues logged!!!!!! Not even going to go there.
For h.264 files, I'm using a Matrox CompressHD card and it's awesome - faster than realtime and the quality is fantastic.
Too bad I couldn't find a comparable (quality and price wise), m2v solution too!
Cheers,
Keebler
Just looking to bounce a few ideas and have some feedback.
I transfer home videos and reels for clients.
I have a G4, G5, 2006 Mac Pro and 2009 Mac Pro. They do various tasks with the 09 being my 'main machine.
I need a PC for a new reel transfer device coming.
I could buy one. or I could buy a new mac pro and use the 09 with bootcamp/parallels etc... to act as the PC.
Or I make an hackintosh and use the 09 as the PC.
My reasoning for a new pro or hackintosh has to do with mpeg2 compression. My 09 is a quad 2.66 so using bitvice, it takes a 2 hour SD video approximately 1 hour 15 mins (with high quality settings) to create the m2v
I have a colleague using a PC, built cheaper of course then a Mac Pro - 6 cores, lots of ram and his takes.....15 mins for a similar file (quality settings, duration etc....).
The 2 bottlenecks for my business are:
1. the actual transfer time for which I can do nothing about - if a camcorder tape runs 2 hours, it takes 2 hours to transfer.
2. the compression time. Usually i do my transferring during the day, a few quick edits, prep the files and run overnight. Still much faster than the 06 MP, but still....any time savings equals money b/c i can turn projects around faster.
But the question is: what should I do? Any suggestions? thoughts? I could use my 06 with compressor except:
1. compressor's output quality wise, is not as good as bitvice
and 2. oh ya, i can never get compressor to work right over a network with more than 1 file (yes, after multiple calls to Apple's support and issues logged!!!!!! Not even going to go there.
For h.264 files, I'm using a Matrox CompressHD card and it's awesome - faster than realtime and the quality is fantastic.
Too bad I couldn't find a comparable (quality and price wise), m2v solution too!
Cheers,
Keebler
