Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these [...]
DVD Backup
June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Movies
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Intel Nehalem 20-50% faster due in 2009
June 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Early Version of Intel’s Nehalem Benchmarked, Much Faster than Penryn – Mac Rumors
Anandtech had access to a 2.66GHz Nehalem processor which they pitted against a 2.66GHz Penryn processor. Performance improvements ranged from 20-50% faster for the Nehalem chip. h.264 video encoding was tested and saw a 44% speed boost on Nehalem vs Penryn on the [...]
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PC Video Encoding
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
I blew up my main video machine. Too much crud on it. So here is the fresh installation:
Sony Vegas Platinum. I only have v6, but it is up to v8. While Adobe Premier might work for the real afictionados it is too complicated for me. The tricky part is making anamorphic standard definition come out. [...]
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