is it worth getting an external hd with a fire wire?

[juji]

Yu-gi-Oh!

[rubycalaber]

YOU TRIGGERED MY TRAP CARD!

Now we're into the valley north of Beijing, we will stay here now night or more and then we went to Shanghai to meet her wool (mother Teresa) and his collaborator Sean is her husband. We are going to be with them for about 2-3 days, and thinks they must show us there. It will be nice to get a float with them because it's hard to make himself understood here that we have a somewhat better get to try here in this wonderful city of Dalian.
upon arrival in Beijing, it was our first project going to the beach end The town known for being a popular tourist site. When we got to the beach was not much about the man and the few who were afraid came from Vlad Ivor Stok (or similar) in Russia, all the property and tom ja no mouth there. We checked with the hotel and Laysan do not want to stay alone a 50 storey hotel because we decided to go somewhere else to another beach which turned out to be perhaps the idea of excellence least at first. After about an hour search of a train passing a flottusut coast and such other hour train we finally arrived at the place. It was quite nicely classy place but nobody there except some motor wear trendy of this as that besiege us as the result of the train and impatient to drive us where we wanted to go in but I did not even yourself so we decided to walk but still Their chased us like rats kinds clamorous that definitely was good, but we were quite clever. This area was all with new houses and hotels that were in the building that is to be a terrible cool. We walked to Voda a nice hotel that was very nice and empty too, we managed to bargain with the price as it had reached about 1200 crowns for this great suite with beautiful views but Hilmar Knuts once told me it was the best buy in flat like that so we went for it. After a shower we went for a walk and there was no process except a motor ride cool worlds and they were still trying to offer to shuttle us a small price. We saw the light in the darkness and walk in light and this turned out to be a convenience store just a bit small but still big enough to get the 15 Chinese people were all trying to watch their team in football, it was nice to see them there, and the man in charge if everyone gets in sjoppuma hja Teddy Bear to watch the ball live. We took a picture in which we try to put in when the world since we'll all be back in (whenever such prices).
previous night we slept so poor Hote inside downtown Dalian, it was not a fun experience and a bad smell inside the town, but this was Only option because we were very tired, we go to a day at the beach hotel and got lovely fine Herbert for 2000 kroner, making it even with Cognac room :), so we should sleep well tonight.
prices of food in China is amazing, for example, we went last week to eat five in a very good place to citizens of 250 crowns a head with something good to drink. I am going to let this suffice for now, is becoming confused them before best to hurry us home in sweat and our watch the sunset in Cognac room. So tomorrow we go to Shanghai by train and the journey takes about 24 hours total.

thanks for all the advice guys i found it helpful

going to get an internal hard drive

all internal

raw dog

raw dog

gotta raw dog it like your avatar

[blumpkin blownuts]

You use FRAPS to capture video. FRAPS generates an AVI file using their own codec, FPS1, which is a very-low-compression codec. This means that if a short video is taking hours to generate, then your bottleneck is probably your disk transfer speed, not your CPU.

If you already have a 7200rpm internal drive, you don't need another, unless you're out of disk space and can't clean up enough free space. If that's the case, go ahead and get the external and use it as storage, then use your existing internal drive to save captured videos. Also, how often do you scandisk & defrag that drive? A highly-fragmented drive will greatly increase the time it takes to save large files, such as FRAPS output.

As maks said, video compression and encoding doesn't use the video card at all. It only uses the CPU, RAM, and disk.

It looks like FRAPS doesn't allow you to set the following options, but your container (mpeg, mp2, mp4, avi, wmv etc) and especially your codec (divx, xvid, h.264, FPS1, etc) will make a big difference, independent of your hardware.

The way it works (in general) is this:

Less compression (e.g. FPS1) --
less work needed by CPU to generate output video file
higher filesize and more time to write output video file to disk
higher visual quality

More compression (e.g. divx) --
more work needed by CPU to generate output video file
lower output filesize and less time to write video file to disk
lower visual quality

The key point to remember is that as long as you use an internal drive (or newer e-SATA, or USB 3 externals) then your speed will be limited by the CPU output, not your disk transfer speed. But this is generally only true for highly-compressed output.
For formats with little-to-no compression, like Uncompressed AVI, RAW video, or FRAPS AVI - these require very little CPU work, so the time it takes to write the file to disk is limited by your disk transfer speed instead of your CPU.

Very-low-compression formats are too large in size to be useful in most applications.

That's why my first suggestion is to get rid of FRAPS, and instead use a video capture program such as CamStudio, which outputs a variety of highly-compressed outputs. Get this program, and in video options set it to use DIVX compression. Divx is the most balanced codec in my professional opinion, as the output has low filesize, decent quality, and the algorithm is relatively fast - meaning that you don't need a high-power CPU to generate it in a timely fashion.

If it's still too slow, and you have a clean internal hard drive, then you will need to upgrade your CPU.

I've been ripping DVDs into video files for over a decade. I've also worked as a video editor in TV news for 3 years.

[juji]

You use FRAPS to capture video. FRAPS generates an AVI file using their own codec, FPS1, which is a very-low-compression codec. This means that if a short video is taking hours to generate, then your bottleneck is probably your disk transfer speed, not your CPU.

If you already have a 7200rpm internal drive, you don't need another, unless you're out of disk space and can't clean up enough free space. If that's the case, go ahead and get the external and use it as storage, then use your existing internal drive to save captured videos. Also, how often do you scandisk & defrag that drive? A highly-fragmented drive will greatly increase the time it takes to save large files, such as FRAPS output.

As maks said, video compression and encoding doesn't use the video card at all. It only uses the CPU, RAM, and disk.

It looks like FRAPS doesn't allow you to set the following options, but your container (mpeg, mp2, mp4, avi, wmv etc) and especially your codec (divx, xvid, h.264, FPS1, etc) will make a big difference, independent of your hardware.

The way it works (in general) is this:

Less compression (e.g. FPS1) --
less work needed by CPU to generate output video file
higher filesize and more time to write output video file to disk
higher visual quality

More compression (e.g. divx) --
more work needed by CPU to generate output video file
lower output filesize and less time to write video file to disk
lower visual quality

The key point to remember is that as long as you use an internal drive (or newer e-SATA, or USB 3 externals) then your speed will be limited by the CPU output, not your disk transfer speed. But this is generally only true for highly-compressed output.
For formats with little-to-no compression, like Uncompressed AVI, RAW video, or FRAPS AVI - these require very little CPU work, so the time it takes to write the file to disk is limited by your disk transfer speed instead of your CPU.

Very-low-compression formats are too large in size to be useful in most applications.

That's why my first suggestion is to get rid of FRAPS, and instead use a video capture program such as CamStudio, which outputs a variety of highly-compressed outputs. Get this program, and in video options set it to use DIVX compression. Divx is the most balanced codec in my professional opinion, as the output has low filesize, decent quality, and the algorithm is relatively fast - meaning that you don't need a high-power CPU to generate it in a timely fashion.

If it's still too slow, and you have a clean internal hard drive, then you will need to upgrade your CPU.

I've been ripping DVDs into video files for over a decade. I've also worked as a video editor in TV news for 3 years.

dude H.264 is better than dvix because it has good encoding speed

[rubycalaber]

CamStudio is good I use it to record ellybabes webcam jerk off shows

CamStudio is good I use it to record ellybabes webcam jerk off shows

duly noted

there's some really simple thing i got that i used to use to record web cammers to make my loops
when i find it on my laptop i'll give it to you

okay here: http://www.nbxsoft.com/screen-recorder.php
very simple stuff, better than fraps in my opnion

[juji]

okay here: http://www.nbxsoft.com/screen-recorder.php
very simple stuff, better than fraps in my opnion

Not really, you can't record game when is on fullscreen

for what i was doing with it, i found it much more lightweight and simple than fraps

[juji]

I personally like camtasia studio, fastest production

[StompleB]

I personally like camtasia studio, fastest production

that is good, but the trial version is limited
if you get the full version pirated, then that's great

[maks]

going to get an internal hard drive

make sure you get sata 3 (or whatever your motherboard supports)

Though I think the cpu would help more, assuming your current drive is sata 3 (or whatever your bus supports) it's not going to be noticeably faster