Pentium 4 will make non-linier editing even faster

[pmweb]

Hey everyone,
Intel just anounced about a week ago the creation of the Pentium 4. It will run at 1.4 gigaherts. The fastest Pentium right now runs at 1 gigaherts and 2 years ago, the fastest thing around was about 300 MHZ, if that.

Pentium 4 will be able to reach speeds that are incredibly fast with a new design that they have. They are saying that in the next couple years, computers will have processors the speed of 10 Gigaherts.

In return, this will make editing a lot faster for the changes that are made to the video.

I can't wait for it to come out. We probably won't need 10 Gigaherts for a while but it will drive down the prices of 1 gigaherts processcors down. Always a plus. Keep watching for more updates cus I really want to know what else comes out about them. I don't know exactly when they will come out but it will be soon.

Paul Mendoza

[Eliud25]

You can have the fastest computer on the planet, but that doesn't mean you can edit faster than with a Pentium 1 or 2. Mabe you can render faster, but editing takes time and effort and many hours to get it right. Plus Pentiums do crash and that would mean,sometimes, the loss of your film or part of it. Your best bet is to learn to edit faster using your editing software by practicing and practicing.

[Matt J Heaton]

I'm no computer expert but isn't it the operating system, ie windows, that does the crashing. Not the pentium processor?

[miker]

Intel do however at the moment have a crap track record for making their chips available.

This is good for a laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12870.html

Maybe they'll have better luck with the P4. Maybe not.

[Matt J Heaton]

Its typical. I buy a P3 when they just came out and before I've even payed a penny for it theres P4s on the horizon.

[Eliud25]

Intel stopped shipping its 1.13-gigahertz Pentium 3 chip on Monday saying the microprocessor could crash computers running certain software or malfunction in computers operating at what should be tolerable temperature extremes. If it happened on their most advanced Pentium 3, it could happen on their most advanced Pentium 4. So yes chips do crash and you don't know alot about computers.

[shakespeareskin]

yes it will make editing and rendering a LOT faster. -IF- you're using the safe software you have right now and never upgrade. Think about it. ALL programs get bigger, more complex, and generally slower due to the incredible size they take up as computers get faster. looking just at word processers. I remember running wordperfect 6.1 on an old 485 dx2/50. It took 45 seconds to load it, then I got a pentium 100 and it took 4 seconds. then I got wordperfect 8 for it and it was greatly slowed down. The best thing to remember is that it will get a little quicker, but the programs will get EXTREEMLY advanced (and that's a good thing)..

[pmweb]

Ok, just wanted to clear up a couple thing.

First, the reason why a comp crashes is cus of the OS (ex. Win 95). The processor dosen't have anything to do with it. That is such a rare occurance and that will be fixed in the Pentium 4.

Second, the reason why the pentium 3 and the pentium 4 were released so close was cus Intel was getting pressure to make a new release and the new design wasn't finished yet. So they released the slower Pentium 3. A few months after the release of the Pentium 3 they finished the Pentium 4.

Third, the reason why the difference between 100MHZ and 300MHZ wasn't a lot a while ago was because of the problem that the processor couldn't keep up with the software. Soon it will be that the software can't keep up with the processor. But the difference between 800MHZ and 10 Gigaherts is huge. I just don't think that if the 10 Gigaherts processor comes out that you will really need that kind of power for a while. The only thing that speed will be good for is games. If intel is smart they won't release faster speeds till we need them which is probably what they will do.

I am going to wait a while after it comes out for them to start releasing faster speeds so that I can get a less expensive one. I think that they will be releasing really fast speeds of the P4.

Paul Mendoza

[This message has been edited by pmweb (edited August 30, 2000).]

[shirt]

P4... I believe AMD already made it... (j/k)
If you get a 1gHz Atlon running with Windows 95... trust me, your never going to see your computer crash again.

Anyways, screw Intel.... BUY AMD or a G4 MAC!

[Xendar]

Hi All,
Just to address a few points that have been raised. Although these newer faster processors are now available, it doesn't really mean much to the computer-video editing world. The reason being that most of the newer domestic type video capture cards (Pinnacle's DV500 & Matrox's RT2000) do the rendering onboard. So it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference whether you have a P2 400 or a PIII 800 / AMD Athlon 800 the render times will be the same. You will, however see an increase in speed with software based applications. That said, most of the brand new motherboards with brand new chipsets to run the very latest processors won't be compatable with most capture cards. It is a common misconception that you need or will benefit from the fastest latest processors on the market for video editing. At the end of the day, most video editors want a stable system that works correctly. In general AMD Athlons do not provide stable editing platforms.
The other pint I wish to make is that Apple Mac's are not really that good for video editing, yet. Due to the lack of software available and cost prices. PC's offer a far wider range of editing hardware & software. Mac's are popular with design people (e.g. Quark & Photoshop) they work well and are generally stable. Mac's also have a very small market share. Therefore not many manufacturers will produce software for them. What little software there is, is generally very expensive. This also reflects to video editing on Mac's.
My final point is about another misconception, that ALL PC's crash all the time. No computer system NEVER crashes (Mac's do too). Most of the problems and crashes are caused by people who do not know how to use a computer properly. When you have a computer platform with so many manufacturers producing software, there are bound to be conflicts within software, or sloppy programming. A PC configured correctly will work very well, with the minimum of problems. In general people who knock PC's for "crashing all the time" and "being buggy" obviously don't understand computers properly, or what they are doing with them.

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Mark Smith
Neon Films - Low / No budget films in West Yorkshire
www.neonfilms.freeserve.co.uk