Anyone using the Core i7 for rendering?
 

Just built a new Core i7 machine the other day. Was tired of having renders taking 24 hours to complete. Now I'm getting my shit done in an hour and a half. :)

I fucking hate waiting for renders.

video rendering? what encoder you using that takes advantage of the i7?

i know handbrake takes advantage of it so far.

I use it for 3d rendering and its awesome.

I'm building my 4th i7 rig this weekend. Overclocking to 4ghz.

Well, I'm using a combination of stuff, but I won't be disclosing specifics. LOL The one that takes the most time is Sony Vegas 9 64-bit.

What chip did you have before? a Core Duo 2 e6300 ?

You're going to laugh. It was a Pentium D. Before that it was a Pentium 4 2.6 ghz.

wont disclose what you use? wtf kind of shit is that?

:disgust

The New i7's Rock!!! Super fast encoding, they are sweet as! I highly recommend grabbing one for anyone who encodes / renders.

WTF?

Are you afraid someone will render faster than you or something?

Handbrake is an encoder?

Nobody told me how to render to perfection.

I use a custom built Core i7 workstation running Vista 64-bit as my main video editing & encoding machine nowadays with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, the Cineform plugin Prospect HD ver. 4 and some other apps for video compression.

I'm thinking my next purchase might be the Sony EX3. The picture from my current AVCHD camera looks fantastic when transcoding from AVCHD to MPEG-2, BUT when I'm editing in MPEG-2, and then outputting AGAIN in MPEG-2, (and tweaking the brightness and contrast slightly) the image is getting slightly degraded. I believe the XDCAM format can be edited natively so I am not having to transcode from one format to another in order to avoid a transcoding step.

Also, I believe it does 4:2:2 which apparently gives a little more headroom than 4:2:0 for tweaking the image a bit.

That is excellent news. I ordered one that should be ready any day now!