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Which comp can help?

Aug 4, 2005 3:46AM PDT

I have a 566MHz processor. Ive tried to burn a dvd but holly it takes a like 18hours. and thats just a 1 GIG of video. Im guessing not even if i upgrade it wont make a difference. So my question is which comp or kind of computer can help to burn this kind of video.

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Burning time is not the issue here.
Aug 4, 2005 3:52AM PDT

The actual recording time should be about the same with your CPU and some 2+ GHz CPU.

What will change is the ENCODING time. It's very linear to CPU power. If you had a twice as fast CPU, it would take 1/2 as long.

Any under 1,000 buck desktop will do this much faster but none (at that price) will break it down in less than say, one hour.

Bob

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Burning time is not the issue here.
Aug 5, 2005 1:14AM PDT

Yes!!! For example when I first got into video edditing and I would render a 10min video on my 500mhz PC, it would take 40min to complete!!!!
Now the same video will render on my 3200+ AMD64 in about 6 min. John