On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:52:39 -0400, "Time Out" wrote:

>What's the CPU requirement to have reasonable rendering times?

Depends on the codec used and what you want to do with it...
400MHz would be more than adequate with 'most any codec
for cuts-only plus some transitions and a short title,
but for heavy color-correction/sharpening/tone-adjust of
a high percentage of the video footage in a lengthy edit,
the faster the better (BTW, render time is not reduced in
a 1:1 ratio with CPU speed increase; with excess RAM, or
much with big changes in HD speeds, but some codecs can
reduce render times very noticeably). BTW, re the Mac
comment above, I used to have great fun with Mac/FCP
fanatics by asking them what the render time was for a
10-second color filter with their "super-fast" dual-450s
or whatever, then be amused when the lowly Celeron 300A
clocked at 450MHz would do the same render with the Raptor
codec in a small fraction of the time...;-) Then, suddenly,
slow render times would be "OK", for various not very clear
reasons...;-)