Sokar's Studio
New iMac
05/04/06 12:03
Last week, I took delivery of a nice and shiny new
Intel 20" IMac... and all I can say is
WOW!!! and that' just the screen size.
This new Mac replaces my old windows machine, which had crashed one time to many...
When I have a chance I"ll take a picture of my setup, but to give you a rough idea, the iMac is on left side of the desk, with the first of two 17" inch monitors on in the middle, which is hooked up to the iMac, which. and next to that, is the Mac Mini, which has my other 17" monitor sat on top of it.
I"ve been using for 6 days now, along side the Mac MIni, and for most stuff, the re really hasn't been that much speed wise, some thing are a little quicker to load.
The most impressive difference I've noticed, is the time it takes to do video compression.
In my spare time, I edit and compress video of various thing I've filmed, or someone has filmed, and they've asked me to edit it for them.
Last Fiday i had a 30 minute clip, and I thought this would be the perfect footage to do a comparison on.
The program I use for the compression is called MPEG Streamclip, and it's a freeware program for both Windowa and Apple Mac computers, and by coincience, they had just released a universal binary version of the program on that day, so I could get a proper feeling for the speed difference with it running natively on the Intel iMac.
I should problaby say the spec of the two Macs.
The Mac minin is the 1.42 Ghz PowerPC G4 modle with 1 GB of SDRAM and a 80 GB hdd drive.
The iMac the standard 20" iMac with the exception of 1 GB of ram.
So after installng the latest version of MPEG Streamclip on both Macs, I configured the it comrpess the vidoe using the same settings.
Granted I didn't start the test at the same time, but I had two seperate timers, so that I could indivisually time htem.
I started the Mac Mini first, and then the iMac about an hour or so later, due to finishing up some other compression.
The Mac Mini clocked in at around 12-13 hours... approxmately, it was well into the night when it finished when i went to bed at 1.30 it had anohter 2 hours to go, figured from half way mark which was aroudn 6 hours, that double that that it would be 12-13.
The iMac... 4 hour 21 mins.
Buy the time the iMac had finished compressing the Mac Mini wasn't even half way through, so I think ti's quiet obvious which computer I'll now be using for encoding video projects.
Yesterday installed Fincal Cut Express onto the, iMac, I'll post about that in the the next couple of about that.
This new Mac replaces my old windows machine, which had crashed one time to many...
When I have a chance I"ll take a picture of my setup, but to give you a rough idea, the iMac is on left side of the desk, with the first of two 17" inch monitors on in the middle, which is hooked up to the iMac, which. and next to that, is the Mac Mini, which has my other 17" monitor sat on top of it.
I"ve been using for 6 days now, along side the Mac MIni, and for most stuff, the re really hasn't been that much speed wise, some thing are a little quicker to load.
The most impressive difference I've noticed, is the time it takes to do video compression.
In my spare time, I edit and compress video of various thing I've filmed, or someone has filmed, and they've asked me to edit it for them.
Last Fiday i had a 30 minute clip, and I thought this would be the perfect footage to do a comparison on.
The program I use for the compression is called MPEG Streamclip, and it's a freeware program for both Windowa and Apple Mac computers, and by coincience, they had just released a universal binary version of the program on that day, so I could get a proper feeling for the speed difference with it running natively on the Intel iMac.
I should problaby say the spec of the two Macs.
The Mac minin is the 1.42 Ghz PowerPC G4 modle with 1 GB of SDRAM and a 80 GB hdd drive.
The iMac the standard 20" iMac with the exception of 1 GB of ram.
So after installng the latest version of MPEG Streamclip on both Macs, I configured the it comrpess the vidoe using the same settings.
Granted I didn't start the test at the same time, but I had two seperate timers, so that I could indivisually time htem.
I started the Mac Mini first, and then the iMac about an hour or so later, due to finishing up some other compression.
The Mac Mini clocked in at around 12-13 hours... approxmately, it was well into the night when it finished when i went to bed at 1.30 it had anohter 2 hours to go, figured from half way mark which was aroudn 6 hours, that double that that it would be 12-13.
The iMac... 4 hour 21 mins.
Buy the time the iMac had finished compressing the Mac Mini wasn't even half way through, so I think ti's quiet obvious which computer I'll now be using for encoding video projects.
Yesterday installed Fincal Cut Express onto the, iMac, I'll post about that in the the next couple of about that.
Sokar's Studio under redesign
04/02/06 23:40
As some may or may not be aware, one of the other
parts of my site, is Sokar's Studio, and I'm
slowly redesigning it, using hte same program I
do this page in.
I'm not doing anything to fancy, just updating it, and bringing some some stuff from other sections.
Oh yeah, I've also made my blog into an RSS feed, so if anyone wants to keep track of when I update my blog, you can now add my RSS feed to your RSS reader.
Well that's all for the moment.
I'm not doing anything to fancy, just updating it, and bringing some some stuff from other sections.
Oh yeah, I've also made my blog into an RSS feed, so if anyone wants to keep track of when I update my blog, you can now add my RSS feed to your RSS reader.
Well that's all for the moment.