Hi--

Tested yesterday

All same brightness change on 3-minute clip, with rendering to

same drive as source (changing drive did not appreciably change

results), same DV-AVI files but for codec conversion (in advance)...

P-3, 800MHz, Premiere 5, Canopus codec = 8 minutes

P-4, 2.66GHz, Premiere 6, Canopus codec = 525 minutes

P-4 2.66GHz, Premiere 6, MS codec = 618 minutes

(Another slightly slower computer produced similar results)

This was not surprising, since moving from 233MHz to 450, then

to 800 also did not produce large improvements in render speed,

though I did expect a bigger improvement than I got (P-6 is

slower-rendering than P-5, but.....;-). Did you actually measure

render speeds, or just theorize them...? ;-)

The rendering time between 800mhz and 2.66 ghz is not much of a

difference???? By all calculations the same computer at 3 times the speed

will render things 3x faster.

When I render effects in AVID, something that would take 6 hours on the

800mhz can be done in 2 with th 2.66ghz. Now if your talking about things

that normally take 1 second with the 800mhz machine, then the difference is

not nearly so much to squeak about.

Aaron