Hello Peter,
I have been doing video editing for 4 years now and am a Sony/Sonic
Foundry Vegas user. I have been using Windows 98SE and am preparing
to upgrade to Windows XP professional. I have been researching
drivers for my Voodoo 5 5500 video card and cannot find a post
anywhere from a fellow video editor to help me select one. I found
this which you posted last February on this forum:

"I was using a Voodoo 5 until recently, only changed it due to its
poor game
support under Windows XP. For digital video editing with a Digital 8
or
MiniDV camera it will be fine."

Can you please post the driver you would recommend here? I would
greatly appreciate it. All of the sites which post Windows XP drivers
for the Voodoo 5 5500 card are geared toward gamers, not video
editors.

Regards,

John

PS: I have to update my e-mail address. It has changed.

On 6 Jan 2004 06:27:09 -0800, (John) wrote:

Hello Peter,
I have been doing video editing for 4 years now and am a Sony/Sonic
Foundry Vegas user. I have been using Windows 98SE and am preparing
to upgrade to Windows XP professional. I have been researching


I would advice getting XP Home rather than Professional.

1) It's cheaper.
2) It uses less resourses
3) Professional gives you nothing extra over Home that is of any use
in video editing.
4) When used on the 'net it is far too easy to break into unless you
keep it pached up fully


Of course - you may *need* IIS and all the other stuff that Prof
comes with, but, IMHO, if you are going to run those then video
editiing performance will take a fairly large hit.

Regards,
Harry.

In article , Harry Broomhall
writes

3) Professional gives you nothing extra over Home that is of any use
in video editing.

Multi-processor support?
--
Keith Laws

What's my solution?

.....NOISE POLLUTION

Thanks Harry,

Actually I already have Windows XP Pro. What I really need is a
driver for ny Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card which won't crash XP when I edit.

Thanks,
John

Harry Broomhall wrote in message . ..
On 6 Jan 2004 06:27:09 -0800, (John) wrote:

Hello Peter,
I have been doing video editing for 4 years now and am a Sony/Sonic
Foundry Vegas user. I have been using Windows 98SE and am preparing
to upgrade to Windows XP professional. I have been researching


I would advice getting XP Home rather than Professional.

1) It's cheaper.
2) It uses less resourses
3) Professional gives you nothing extra over Home that is of any use
in video editing.
4) When used on the 'net it is far too easy to break into unless you
keep it pached up fully


Of course - you may *need* IIS and all the other stuff that Prof
comes with, but, IMHO, if you are going to run those then video
editiing performance will take a fairly large hit.

Regards,
Harry.

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:45:35 +0000, Keith Laws
wrote:

In article , Harry Broomhall
writes

3) Professional gives you nothing extra over Home that is of any use
in video editing.

Multi-processor support?

Possibly true - but depends on the apps you are using.

In the past multi-proc was fairly easy and useful; I'm less
convinced now.

Regards,
Harry.

In message , Harry Broomhall
writes
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:45:35 +0000, Keith Laws
wrote:

In article , Harry Broomhall
writes

3) Professional gives you nothing extra over Home that is of any use
in video editing.

Multi-processor support?

Possibly true - but depends on the apps you are using.

In the past multi-proc was fairly easy and useful; I'm less
convinced now.

Especially now with the release of 65-bit processors. I suspect that
application developers will be concentrating more on 64's rather than
dual-processor operation.
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info
http://www.rhylonline.com

In message , Tony Morgan
writes
Especially now with the release of 65-bit processors.

Sorry, my fingers are misbehaving. Should have read 64-bit :-)
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info
http://www.rhylonline.com

In article , Tony Morgan
writes
Especially now with the release of 65-bit processors. I suspect that
application developers will be concentrating more on 64's rather than
dual-processor operation.

You think they will ignore Hyperthreading in the Pentium 4 then?
--
Keith Laws

What's my solution?

.....NOISE POLLUTION

In message , Keith Laws
writes
In article , Tony Morgan
writes
Especially now with the release of 65-bit processors. I suspect that
application developers will be concentrating more on 64's rather than
dual-processor operation.

You think they will ignore Hyperthreading in the Pentium 4 then?

Is that a fancy name for multi-threading?

If so, then the systems that I've seen where multi-threading has been
introduced (mainly bespoke systems associated with automation), there
are often problems associated DMA channel allocation/de-allocation and
interrupt vectoring and prioritising.
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info
http://www.rhylonline.com

In article , Tony Morgan
writes
You think they will ignore Hyperthreading in the Pentium 4 then?

Is that a fancy name for multi-threading?


Nope, multithreading is something that the software has that has to be
there to make proper use of multi processors. A single threaded
application cannot have the thread split between the two CPUs

Hyperthreading is something the P4 has, basically core processing bits
of the chip are duplicated , to the OS and applications it looks like a
pair of CPUs.

If so, then the systems that I've seen where multi-threading has been
introduced (mainly bespoke systems associated with automation), there
are often problems associated DMA channel allocation/de-allocation and
interrupt vectoring and prioritising.

Adobe Premiere is multithreaded and successfully maxed out both my CPUs
on my old system when rendering. A non-multithreaded app like Pinnacle
Studio only maxes one of the CPUs, the other sits there just doing
windows task and stuff. I didnt have any problems with DMA etc.

Excel is multi threaded as well by the way, I dont remember having any
of the problems you suggest with it. Of course, YMMV

Even with single threaded applications you get a small performance gain
by using two CPUs. Windows will give the application a CPU to itself
while doing the mundane stuff with the other one.
--
Keith Laws

What's my solution?

.....NOISE POLLUTION