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Originally Posted by Barnes
Show me your Compaq.
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It is a compaq sr2050nx. The processor is a dual core, but pentium d, so it is slower than the new core 2 duos, but from benchmark tests I've seen it is like 10-20% slower, not an order of magnitude slower. Doesn't justify 3x the cost for my purposes.
I don't know what's with everyone calling bs on editing hd movies.
That was the purpose I bought this pc for, as my laptop couldn't do it.
I have a canon HV10 HD camcorder that records at 1920x1080i. I have been editing home movies using pinnacle media studio for a few months.
I bring in the video in HDV format, and can make 1080i or 720p movies in WMA, real, or mpeg2, and can set the compression to whatever I want.
Editing using that pc and software is fast, and troublefree. Converting a 20 minute HD movie takes some time to whatever format (especially highly compressed) takes some time, as it probably would with any software.
I've also authored 1080i HD-DVD onto regular dvds. Although you can only fit about 20-30 minutes onto a regular dvd. Can a mac do that??
I also can capture HD movies and TV shows from my motorola cable box and edit out commercials and archive them to my hard drive. As far as I know, macs don't have any drivers for doing this.