#Razor Pro on a 486?
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I'm trying to design a lab for 3 visual art departments to use. We've got 3DS,
6-486's, 1 P-90 pentium, and a PAR. I'm concerned that if I put the PAR in the
Pentium (which will be the most heavily used by our savy users for Photoshop)
we will limit our ability to net render 3DS. I could put it in a 486 and use
the Pentium as a slave renderer. Is Razor Pro on a 486 a ridiculous idea?
(I'm not anticipating much video editing use by more than a few faculty over
the next semester, mostly the PAR would be used for 3DS animations and
capturing single frames of video for further manipulation.)
(Oh yes, BTW, being an educational institution I can't wait for the next
generation of anything, these funds were petitioned a year ago and the
specifics of the request can't be changed. :*( )
Thanks for any ideas.
Carlton
>> Is Razor Pro on a 486 a ridiculous idea? <<
Carlton, The 486 will not give you an problems as long as you have enough RAM
for Razor Pro to operate properly. You will need 24-32 megs of ram to do any
kind of editing, you will need 32 megs to use TransJammer DVE's and 24 megs for
RP out of the box.
-Mike
Thanks Mike, it looks like ram time for me :*).
Carlton
Carlton – In our experience there is a definite performance hit when operating
with RPro on a '496 vs. a Pentium. Additional RAM can mitigate the hit, but
it's there nonetheless. Since Razor Pro has to render its transitions, the more
potent the CPU, the faster you'll run. Compare your rendering speeds of your
frames in 3dS for the Pentium vs. the '486s, and you should have an approximate
performance benchmark .
Thanks for the benchmark Dennis. It gives me something understandable to work
with.
Carlton