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Video computer questions
I don't quite understand some of your comments. As the DVI output, are you
referring to the connection of your computer to your computer monitor? I thought all Sony's have an IEEE-1394 Firewire port. That's what I would want to output video back to a camcorder. The VGA/DVI port issue would be irrelevant as to getting video to a DVD-RW burner. Playing a DVD is another matter. A lot of articles would consider DVD-RW to be more compatible than DVD+RW. Check www.dvdrhelp.com. They have some compatibility lists, yours might be included. It doesn't seem to me that your video card is too critical in the capture/creation of DVD process, only in playing video on your computer. If you plan to watch DVD's on your Emerson player, it might not make much difference. Ed "Danny Deger" wrote in message ... I am seriously thinking about buying a Sony desktop from Tiger Direct for $899. It is marketed as an entry video machine. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ls.asp?sku=S16 7-3152%20P I couldn't come close to buying the components and putting a machine together for this price. But, I am concern about its video "card" which is: "64MB Intel 845G Integrated Graphics [shared]" and its DVD-RW burner. First, it doesn't have a DVI output. I have a DVI monitor and a DVI cable that I plan to use. If I go to analog VGA, will I loose much? Second, is the built in "shared" video OK in the long run. I have been told to watch for built in video, it typically doesn't have anywhere close to the power of a dedicated card. Third, the machine doesn't have an AGP slot for a video card is I don't like the lack of DVI and current video performance. It only has PCI slots. I current have a Radeon 7000 PCI on an older machine, that works OK. But I don't do video processing and games? Will PCI only video card be a problem for video and games? I don't plan on doing sophisticated video processing. Taking my digital camcorder video to a DVD is about all I need to do. I don't need superb video performance, but don't want to be stuck with a dog if PCI is a dog. Fourth, I have an Emerson DVD player. Is there anyway to check compatibility of the DVD writer to my player (the computer comes with a DVD-RW, which isn't as good as DVD+RW for compatibility). Compatibility with DVD players is important to me, but how can I spec a computer to burn compatible DVDs? Should I insist on DVD+RW? Danny Deger |
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"Eddie W. Stroud" wrote in message ... I don't quite understand some of your comments. As the DVI output, are you referring to the connection of your computer to your computer monitor? I thought all Sony's have an IEEE-1394 Firewire port. That's what I would want to output video back to a camcorder. The VGA/DVI port issue would be irrelevant as to getting video to a DVD-RW burner. Playing a DVD is another matter. A lot of articles would consider DVD-RW to be more compatible than DVD+RW. Check www.dvdrhelp.com. They have some compatibility lists, yours might be included. It doesn't seem to me that your video card is too critical in the capture/creation of DVD process, only in playing video on your computer. If you plan to watch DVD's on your Emerson player, it might not make much difference. Ed The computer has a firewire, which I will use to go from camcorder to computer. The DVI is to get from the computer to the monitor. The computer doesn't have one, it has only a VGA. I spent extra to get a monitor and a cable for DVI, but my monitor also has VGA. Will I loose quality to go back to VGA vs. DVI from my computer to my monitor. Thanks for you reply. Your comment on DVD-RW vs. DVD+RW was very enlightening. I will research this further. Danny Deger |
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If you want to do heavy-duty video editing and gaming, you'll want an AGP
card. Just buy my computer from me: MSI motherboard (800MHz FSB, Dual channel DDR400, 8X AGP support 6 PCI) 512MB DDR RAM (PC3200) Pentium 4, 2.4GHz Antec 450Watt Power Supply ATI 7500 64MB 4X AGP (VGA out, DVI out, tv out) 80GB 7200RPM 8MB (got 3) CD-RW (32x10x40) I also have a TDK DVD+R 4x burner. |
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"Cory" wrote in message newsuZPa.3630$Bp2.1271@fed1read07... If you want to do heavy-duty video editing and gaming, you'll want an AGP card. Just buy my computer from me: MSI motherboard (800MHz FSB, Dual channel DDR400, 8X AGP support 6 PCI) 512MB DDR RAM (PC3200) Pentium 4, 2.4GHz Antec 450Watt Power Supply ATI 7500 64MB 4X AGP (VGA out, DVI out, tv out) 80GB 7200RPM 8MB (got 3) CD-RW (32x10x40) I also have a TDK DVD+R 4x burner. Not too bad. I would like DVD burner that does +/- and really need 120 Gigs of hard drive space. Does the case have room for two CD/DVD devices? How much? Danny Deger |
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Not too bad. I would like DVD burner that does +/- and really need 120
Gigs of hard drive space. Does the case have room for two CD/DVD devices? How much? The case has four 5 1/4" bays, two external 3 1/2" bays, and four internal 3 1/2" bays, so plenty of room for expandibility. So, with two 80GB HDs, and the DVD+R burner, I'd say $1000. Without the burner, $900. I'll also toss my a PCI ethernet card, PCI firewire card, and 6-in-1 card reader and floppy drive in too. Then I've also got this hardware/softwa Premiere 6.5 and Canopus DVStorm Pro with StormBay ($1000), Multicam ($500), Impression DVD-Pro ($150), Ulead Media Studio Pro ($300), XP Home ($50), PCI ATA/133 controller card, etc. too. |
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"Danny Deger" wrote in message ... I am seriously thinking about buying a Sony desktop from Tiger Direct for $899. It is marketed as an entry video machine. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ls.asp?sku=S16 7-3152%20P I couldn't come close to buying the components and putting a machine together for this price. But, I am concern about its video "card" which is: "64MB Intel 845G Integrated Graphics [shared]" and its DVD-RW burner. First, it doesn't have a DVI output. I have a DVI monitor and a DVI cable that I plan to use. If I go to analog VGA, will I loose much? Second, is the built in "shared" video OK in the long run. I have been told to watch for built in video, it typically doesn't have anywhere close to the power of a dedicated card. Third, the machine doesn't have an AGP slot for a video card is I don't like the lack of DVI and current video performance. It only has PCI slots. I current have a Radeon 7000 PCI on an older machine, that works OK. But I don't do video processing and games? Will PCI only video card be a problem for video and games? I don't plan on doing sophisticated video processing. Taking my digital camcorder video to a DVD is about all I need to do. I don't need superb video performance, but don't want to be stuck with a dog if PCI is a dog. Fourth, I have an Emerson DVD player. Is there anyway to check compatibility of the DVD writer to my player (the computer comes with a DVD-RW, which isn't as good as DVD+RW for compatibility). Compatibility with DVD players is important to me, but how can I spec a computer to burn compatible DVDs? Should I insist on DVD+RW? Danny Deger I use a Sony VAIO digital studio PCV 672 UC. 2.66 mghz, 1 gig of ram, 2 hard drives for 220 gigs. It is about one year old. I bought it at Sams for about $2500. It has worked perfectly. You can swap out the second hard drive in about 3 minutes. It is almost like having a removable hard drive. I see the new Sony VAIO at Sam's comes with a 260 gig hard drive and 1 gig of ram. I use Premiere 6.0 and it works fine on the firewire to my Sony XL 1000 Camcorder. The Sony Driver only works with the Sony XL 2000 but Microsoft put a driver in win XP for the XL 1000. I can control the cameral frame by frame using the mouse. I went through that make DVD mode for a couple of years until I realized CD's and DVD's are almost history. As the Internet speed gets faster and faster, CD's and DVD's are going to be obsolete in a year or so. Why waste the time on them when hard drive space is so cheap and the Internet is so fast. They just slow things down..... |
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"Danny Deger" wrote in message
... Thanks for your reply. I will certainly reevaluate this machine. I didn't however see any comment on PCI vs. AGP cards in general. I understand that the Radeon 7000 is a low end card. My question is "Will not having an AGP slot seriously limit my future performance/capability in video?" Are PCI video cards as a class more limited than AGP cards? Danny Deger In general, the PCI vs AGP thing... PCI 33mhz bus, AGP 66mhz bus, today we have 8x AGP or approx. 533mhz to syncronize with the P4 bus ( which is of course now 800mhz -- 12x is next? ). So what, the AGP 8x bus can theoretically move 16x as much info as the 33mhz PCI bus? That can cut the time for many operations, and enhance the ability of the video card to perform complex tasks in real-time. Great for games... |
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:38:03 -0500, "Danny Deger"
wrote: I am seriously thinking about buying a Sony desktop from Tiger Direct for $899. It is marketed as an entry video machine. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ls.asp?sku=S16 7-3152%20P I couldn't come close to buying the components and putting a machine together for this price. But, I am concern about its video "card" which is: "64MB Intel 845G Integrated Graphics [shared]" and its DVD-RW burner. First, it doesn't have a DVI output. I have a DVI monitor and a DVI cable that I plan to use. If I go to analog VGA, will I loose much? Depends on the analog output and the monitor. Some will work OK with analog, others not so hot. If your monitor is sharper fed from DVI than analog, I'd say make sure that you have DVI out on your video card. Second, is the built in "shared" video OK in the long run. I have been told to watch for built in video, it typically doesn't have anywhere close to the power of a dedicated card. It isn't power so much as the bandwidth just isn't quite as high as with a separate bus/memory. The actual chipset is about the same (845G is similar to GeForce2 from Nvidia). Third, the machine doesn't have an AGP slot for a video card is I don't like the lack of DVI and current video performance. It only has PCI slots. I current have a Radeon 7000 PCI on an older machine, that works OK. But I don't do video processing and games? Will PCI only video card be a problem for video and games? I don't plan on doing sophisticated video processing. Taking my digital camcorder video to a DVD is about all I need to do. I don't need superb video performance, but don't want to be stuck with a dog if PCI is a dog. PCI only is just about the same as having no expansion slot for video. The PCI bus limit will mean that you can never use a fast AGP card. If you don't care about fast frame rate 3D games, it doesn't matter. Working with camcorder video, AGP doesn't matter at all. Or almost not at all -- there are some apps which can use the AGP video card as a 3D effect render engine. But as far as general work with video, that is all 2D video, not 3D, and not only is PCI just fine in general, unless you need a 2nd video card you can do just fine with the built-in video. Fourth, I have an Emerson DVD player. Is there anyway to check compatibility of the DVD writer to my player (the computer comes with a DVD-RW, which isn't as good as DVD+RW for compatibility). Compatibility with DVD players is important to me, but how can I spec a computer to burn compatible DVDs? Should I insist on DVD+RW? I'd say yes, if you need DVD compatibility with everyone. If it is just for your own stuff, you can get by with whatever comes with it, as long as it works with your player. As a general rule, though, serious video editing means not skimping on the base machine. Other stuff to think about: Dual monitor, TV monitor output for your video editing: A full screen TV video out is very useful for video work. While you can work that out if you have a DV VCR with analog out, and hook it to a TV monitor, if your video editing app runs firewire preview out live, a video card with proper video overlay out can show any window out to full screen video. Dual monitor setup gives you more screen space for editing apps, and that can make editing faster, less stressful, and easier on the eyes. Matrox makes very nice dual head and triple (separate TV out) cards, but there are others. Hard drive space: Adding hard drives for video makes it easier to do big projects, and more than one project in the pipe at a time. Most package PCs can only add one hard drive easily. A bigger case costs little more if you get a custom-built machine, but are rarely provided with store package deals. The price of the PC to run the software will end up being way less than the cost of the software you use, if you get into video production at all seriously. With an entry machine, if you want to expand your solution is going to be getting a new PC. If you get a standard case, custom built machine (note that custom built isn't necessarily much more expensive than a package deal if you hunt around), you can expand it yourself, upgrading the motherboard as needed. -- *-__Jeffery Jones__________| *Starfire* |____________________-* ** Muskego WI Access Channel 14/25 http://www.execpc.com/~jeffsj/mach7/ *Starfire Design Studio* http://www.starfiredesign.com/ |
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"Jeffery S. Jones" wrote in message ... Working with camcorder video, AGP doesn't matter at all. Or almost not at all -- there are some apps which can use the AGP video card as a 3D effect render engine. But as far as general work with video, that is all 2D video, not 3D, and not only is PCI just fine in general, unless you need a 2nd video card you can do just fine with the built-in video. Yes, this will be more important for video editing in the future as more and more editing software is made to harness the power of the GPU as well as the CPU for video effects rendering and processing. The New Pinnacle Edition software now uses both, and it advertises the fact that the agp bus is 16x faster which allows the use of the GPU(graphics Processor Unit) to do real-time 3 d effects preview on the computer monitor. I am sure more and more software will also use the gpu, I think the new Premiere Pro does also but am not sure. So if you are getting into video editing, spend a few bucks more and get a system with an agp slot, for sure! Don't regret it in a few years. In the past, Motherboards had all slow ISA slots and only one pci slot for faster video graphics, now we have all pci and one agp, I suspect in a few years well have all agp and something fast for video, agp2? agp pro? can anyone guess? Thanks, AnthonyR |
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"John David Carter" wrote in message .. . "Danny Deger" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply. I will certainly reevaluate this machine. I didn't however see any comment on PCI vs. AGP cards in general. I understand that the Radeon 7000 is a low end card. My question is "Will not having an AGP slot seriously limit my future performance/capability in video?" Are PCI video cards as a class more limited than AGP cards? Danny Deger In general, the PCI vs AGP thing... PCI 33mhz bus, AGP 66mhz bus, today we have 8x AGP or approx. 533mhz to syncronize with the P4 bus ( which is of course now 800mhz -- 12x is next? ). So what, the AGP 8x bus can theoretically move 16x as much info as the 33mhz PCI bus? That can cut the time for many operations, and enhance the ability of the video card to perform complex tasks in real-time. Great for games... AGP data transfers are also piplined making them more efficient, and it doesn't have to share the bus with multiple devices. 12x next? No. Actually late this year or early 2004, PCI-Express will begin being introduced as the new bus standard. It has better bandwidth than AGP, and is scaleable for the future. It also uses a much lower pin count, and therefore will change our ideas about pc case design. |
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