--- On Wed, 3/16/11, BEDFORD NEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would think a simple i3 machine would probably handle the
> whole thing for
> quite a rock bottom price nowadays, they are available for
> sub £300 in the
> UK, (around $450?) and as someone else suggested, much
> cheaper than an MPEG2
> card ever was new in reality. I did have one and to
> be honest, it didn't
> really add that much power, considering how much it cost,
> but then the
> processor power wasn't really viable, unless you wanted to
> spend silly amounts.
Speaking of silly amounts, look back at how much a fully outfitted Radius
81/110 Mac clone with the NuBus Media 100 system cost, with all the dongles to
enable all the features. Somewhere north of $10K! It'd have at best 100 gigs
total storage and the slow SCSI had to be setup in a striped RAID to barely
manage 4.5 megabytes/second to capture at 150K per frame. It had 264 megabytes
RAM in 72 pin SIMMs.
That was just the computer and capture hardware. On top of that would be a
studio S-VHS or Betacam deck (or two) with component video and XLR audio
connections. A time-base corrector was mandatory because the capture hardware
had no frame buffer. The slightest bobble in the synch would cause it to stop
capturing.
Since it was from the era of 2gig maximum file sizes, the software was hard
coded to stop capturing when the file reached 2gig. With remote deck control
(RS-422 serial) it would start a new file and keep going. Without remote
control it was possible but very very tedious.
The workaround was capturing in draft quality to try and squeeze as much of a
project into to 2gig as possible. Do all the edits and FX then fire it up in
full quality capture, sit back and watch it automatically operate the decks -
sucking in video piece by piece, applying FX then writing out to the final
tape. Of course that required remote deck control and the original tapes had to
be recorded on pro equipment with vertical interval timecode recorded. So
there's another multi-thousand $$$ expense.
For the money it took to do professional nowhere near realtime video editing in
the late 1990's - it's nearly impossible to spend that much money now. Today
your biggest expense is going to be the software, it's as expensive as ever,
but is capable of much more due to how much more power current computers have.
You could outfit a whole digital studio now for the cost of a single complete
workstation a decade ago. Might even have money leftover to treat the staff to
a week of lunches.
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