[Wylug-discuss] Follow-ups on system purely for video editing + encoding/rendering

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Dave Fisher wrote:

> 1. Have I read Paul and James correctly? -- i.e. can most transcoding
> probably be handled by a sufficiently poky multi-core CPU?

I'd say so, yes.

> 3. Can anyone suggest editing software, or a hardware-software bundle, that
> can solve the problem of scrolling back and forth through very large MPEG-2
> files, especially MPEG-2 transport streams?

I've used projectX which is somewhat rough and ready, but is perfectly
adequate for trimming/cutting/joining work.  Certainly I've never found the
performance to be an issue dealing with multi-gigabyte MPEG2 Trasport Streams.
But I guess it depends on a lot on exactly what you're trying to do just how
fast you feel it needs to be.

A lot of the focus on fast disks for video editing I thought was based on you
working with high bitrate video (like 135Mbit SDI).  Just how large are the
individual streams you're dealing with?

jh