On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:49:33 +0100, ":Jerry:"
wrote:


"Ed Chilada" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:53:08 +0100, "Mortimer"
wrote:

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Surprisingly the increased RAM doesn't make any difference to the
rendering
time.

Nor would I have expected it to - or defragging your HDD which is
one
of the biggest white elephants around.



Just to clarify the above remark so that no one gets confused...
Defragging is a white elephants as far as rendering is concerned, but
a very real issue were capture/transfer from tape/DVD play-out is
concerned, rendering doesn't need to be real-time unlike the latter.

Aye yes, to be fair it might help if your HDD is in a ridiculous state
and you don't have much more space available than the tape you're
capturing, but if you've got a decent amount of HDD space available
(so that it's not having to use every available cluster regardless of
location), then I still don't see it being much of an issue.
Certainly, spending hours de-fragging is a waste of time if you're not
getting dropped frames in the first place.