Is Celeron OK for video editing?

U. U.

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Jun 1, 2004, 1:45:04 PM6/1/04

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I just got an ADS DVD Xpress, and now I have to buy a computer with the
firepower to run it. My 6 year old Aptiva doesn't come close to the system
requirements.

I notice computers on sale with the Celeron are a lot cheaper than the
others. Will a Celeron be OK for the DVD Xpress and the Ulead VideoStudio
7 DVD SE that comes with it? Is the only difference between the Celeron
and a normal P4 the size of the onboard cache (128k instead of 512)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Keith Clark

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Jun 1, 2004, 1:59:24 PM6/1/04

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"U. U." wrote:

By Celeron, do you mean a current generation, 2.4 GHz or better version?

And what is meant by "OK"?

Your limiting factor in editing is I/O throughput, usually limited by hard disk
performance.

The only time CPU speed will be an issue in editing is how much rendering
you're going to do. If you're going to be waiting hours and hours for mpeg-2
rendering you might want a faster chip with hyperthreading or dual cores, or
even dual Xeon.

For what it's worth I built a digital video recorder box around a 2.4 GHz
Celeron chip and it does fine (no rendering is done by the CPU in that system).

Tony

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Jun 1, 2004, 2:52:13 PM6/1/04

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"Keith Clark" <clarkpho...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> By Celeron, do you mean a current generation, 2.4 GHz or better version?
>
> And what is meant by "OK"?
>
> Your limiting factor in editing is I/O throughput, usually limited by hard
disk
> performance.
>
> The only time CPU speed will be an issue in editing is how much rendering
> you're going to do. If you're going to be waiting hours and hours for
mpeg-2
> rendering you might want a faster chip with hyperthreading or dual cores,
or
> even dual Xeon.
>
> For what it's worth I built a digital video recorder box around a 2.4 GHz
> Celeron chip and it does fine (no rendering is done by the CPU in that
system).

I used to edit on a 100Mhz Pentium. The only problem was render time.
Celerons are fine overall as long as you don't mind the waiting.

Will Dormann

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Jun 1, 2004, 3:40:57 PM6/1/04

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U. U. wrote:

> I notice computers on sale with the Celeron are a lot cheaper than the
> others. Will a Celeron be OK for the DVD Xpress and the Ulead VideoStudio
> 7 DVD SE that comes with it? Is the only difference between the Celeron
> and a normal P4 the size of the onboard cache (128k instead of 512)?

The Celeron will work for what you want, but there are much better choices.

For video encoding (and most other things), a cheap-o Duron 1600 will
beat most of the Celerons. (Up through at least 2.4 GHz)
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=6

For the price of a 2.4GHz Celeron, you can get an Athlon XP 2800+. You
should be able to extrapolate the data in the above graph to find where
the 2800+ sits in relation to the Celerons.

-WD

Sanman

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Jun 2, 2004, 12:34:42 AM6/2/04

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"Tony" <ton...@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
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I use a Pentium 4 2.5G system and I still wait. You will always wait unless
you spend BIG bucks. I think a 2.5G Celeron will probably almost equal a
Pentuim in rendering times.

A fast Celeron will be fine.

Sanman

Tony

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Jun 2, 2004, 4:45:36 PM6/2/04

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"Sanman" <m...@you.com> wrote in message
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>
> I use a Pentium 4 2.5G system and I still wait. You will always wait
unless
> you spend BIG bucks. I think a 2.5G Celeron will probably almost equal a
> Pentuim in rendering times.
>
> A fast Celeron will be fine.

It comes down to how long you wait.

U. U.

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Jun 2, 2004, 7:00:19 PM6/2/04

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Thanks for the article reference, I didn't know about AnandTech. Since the
ADS DVD Xpress does hardware encoding, I'm not concerned about encoding
speed.

Will Dormann <wdor...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in
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