This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 7, 2003). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Not having a digital video camera to play with video bits, and hot having any multi-megabyte Photoshop files to play with, I have to admit that I haven’t exactly been taxing my G5 since I got it. I’m loving the speed, to be sure — but I also know I haven’t even begun to push the limits of what this machine can do.
I stumbled across a post by someone who does do video rendering work, though, and they posted a comparison of video render times for whatever project they’re working on. The clip that they were working on took 6 hours and 46 minutes to render on a dual 500Mhz processor G4 — but only 42 minutes to render on the dual 2Ghz processor G5.
That’s fast. Time for me to upgrade my projects! ;)
I had to read this several times. The first time I read it I read that the 6 hour clip took 46 min on the G4 and 42 min on the G5 and I couldn’t believe it was only 4 min faster on a 6 hour clip.
Thats one of the dangers in reading before coffee.
I have it now! And it is just because of upcoming video work that I got a G5. And while I don’t have a video camera right now I know that I will soon. For video production work the G5 is the only way to go.
I’m sure your superstitions were doubly enforced by the fact that it was 42 minutes and not any other number of minutes.
Or did I just point that out to you? I haven’t even read the book!
Oh, I definitely noticed that. ;)
And you haven’t read THHGtG yet? For shame, for shame!