#PVR purchase questions
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I am purchasing a DPS Perception Video Recorder nonlinear suite with in:sync
Speed Razor Mach 3. I have several questions that I would appreciate answers
for.
1/ Are there any new A/V drives out there (4 Gig & larger) that have a
sustained data transfer rate in excess of 5 meg/sec over the entire surface of
the drive? I understand that the Seagates & Micropolis A/V drives need to be
"short stroked" when formatting so they use only the outer portion of the drive
that can sustain the data rate required (ie. 80% of drive for 5 meg/sec). I
have heard that the IBM Ultrastar drives do 5.5 to 7.4 meg/sec over 100% of the
platters when no more than two are put on the same Fast SCSI2 controller. Does
anyone have advice on the best/fastest drives available for the PVR? What
about the Quantum Grand Prix drives?
2/ Is a Diamond Stealth graphics board or a Matrox Millennium better and should
these boards have 2 or 4 meg of ram? Can either of these boards support
virtual screens if I want to put another one in at a later date?
3/ In the Turtle Beach line of audio boards, is the Tahiti or Monterey the
better board? Do these boards have Windows NT drivers for Pentium machines?
Any suggestions of other audio boards with NT drivers for the Perception, would
be welcome.
4/ Any motherboard recommendations for single or dual chip Pentium 133 MHz?
I'll want at least 4 PCI slots.
5/ Will 32 meg of ram do for NT workstation & the Perception or should I get
more?
6/ Any recommendations for a external tower to put video hard drives in?
7/ Does anyone know if the Speed Razor software will accept RS232 time code
from the Horita TRG-50PL time code reader/generator? This unit takes linear
time code & puts it on the RS232 line. Where can I get this Horita unit, and
what does is the cost?
8/ Can anyone with a PVR, list typical rendering times for a 1 second dissolve
or an effect? Please also list OS, editing software and CPU.
Thank you for any responses. Doug Hembruff Impact Televideo Productions London,
Ontario, Canada 102711.1127@compuserve.com
>Are there any new A/V drives out there.
>What about the Quantum Grand Prix drives?<
Check with DPS.
>Is Matrox Millennium<
I'd get a 4MB Millenium.
>In the Turtle Beach line of audio boards. Any suggestions of other audio
boards with NT drivers for the Perception, would be welcome.<
Turtle Beach has been promising NT drivers for over 2 years. I have a AWE32 now
and I'm waiting for the DPS 8 channel, 16 bit, PCI audio card designed for the
PVR. It sounds like a SunRize AD516 card that was out for the Amiga. I haven't
seen the price, but the SunRize card lists for $1500, I'd expect the DPS card
to be around $1500-2000 list.
>Any motherboard recommendations for single or dual chip Pentium 133 MHz? I'll
want at least 4 PCI slots.<
I'm looking at an ASUS dual smp, 120/133, 4 PCI mobo that can hold at least 2
full-length PCI cards without removing the CPU heatsink.
>Will 32 meg of ram do for NT workstation & the Perception or should I get
more?<
I'd say 32MB would be a start with 64MB being ideal for MAX, Speed Razor, etc.
>Any recommendations for a external tower to put video hard drives in?<
I've seen a PCI bus extender that has 7 PCI slots and 5 drive bays.
>Does anyone know if the Speed Razor software will accept RS232 time code from
the Horita TRG-50PL time code reader/generator? This unit takes linear time
code & puts it on the RS232 line. Where can I get this Horita unit, and what
does is the cost?<
B&H Photo Video sells the Horita line. They have the TRG-50PC for $549, the
TRG-50 is $439.
>Can anyone with a PVR, list typical rendering times for a 1 second dissolve or
an effect? Please also list OS, editing software and CPU.<
It mainly depends on the CPU.
Hello again Doug. I can help with some info and am interested in some of your
questions, particularly the HD questions.
> 3/ In the Turtle Beach line of audio boards, is the Tahiti or Monterey the
better board? Do these boards have Windows NT drivers for Pentium machines?
Both are the same base board – the Tahiti. The Monterey includes a MIDI
daughtercard, the Rio. ie – Tahiti + Rio = Monterey. If you check the Adode
Applications Forum, there is some info there on getting NT drivers for
Monterey/Tahiti, I believe they were writen by a third party, not from TB.
> 7/ Where can I get this Horita unit, and what does is the cost?
Horita is widely available, Kevin should have it locally.
8/ Can anyone with a PVR, list typical rendering times for a 1 second dissolve
or an effect? Please also list OS, editing software and CPU.
We just received our Premiere 4.0a and should have things running this week.
(Win 3.11, Pentium 90)
-George Plhak