> don't really plan on using it. Video quality is very good. The problem > I > forsee is that editing and transcoding the H.264 files takes FOREVER! I > hope > I am missing something and any suggestions to speed things up would be > appreciated. >
Clock and cores. x264, for its part, loves fast quad-cores. Your encoder may vary. I've heard that it doesn't scale nearly as well beyond 4 unless you use very high quality settings. You also have to watch your input filters, if you're using avisynth to frameserve it in. (running a 3.6GHz Q6600)