I'm curious of how much it will help as well, so I might try taking memory out of compy, doing a test render, then doing it again with the memory reinstalled.

if i dont get a new motherboard (oh mother!) then i can only use 2x1GB, correct?

why doesnt red hurry up and tell us how things are going with his setup? i would like to know about his buff laptop in particular...! (might be incentive for me to replace my current beast)

I thought this commentary was hilarious! (^_-)b Thanks, man! It made me laugh.

Sometimes when I've been host I've had horrible stutter. I've read this is happens when you're host. Either way, connection wise the game is a joke so even if you got rid of the input lag it'd still be BS. But you know that. I might have posted this before, but you can take a look @ it. Probably doesn't tell you anything you don't already know though. TV menus aren't in Japanese are they?

PS3----->Component IN PVR----->Compy
///////////Component OUT PVR----->(Component Cable) Converter----->(VGA Cable) TV

The converter you've got there looks like it includes a component cable only, so if you go for this make sure you've got a VGA cable too. (w/ both male ends)

Lastly, I saw (or thought) that you had a PS3 VGA cable link up there. Something like this.
This would work perfect if your PVR wasn't in the mix, or you recorded from theater mode, so you know.

Edit: Ah. The reason the Component To VGA cable wont work is because they use differing colorspaces. Component uses YPbPR & VGA uses RGB.
Mystery Solved!

using the CPU-Z tool, i got this:
under memory, channel: dual
under SPD, slot 1 & 3: each have a 512MB chip
under mainboard, chipset: Intel i945P/PL/G/GZ Rev. A2
processor is Intel Pentium D 830

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Sony Vegas:
havent tried rendering with the *guz tweaked* settings yet, but i did switch them just now.
already, i noticed a huge (potential) problem. my project properties were set to something ridiculous like 720x480. i had never been able to preview my vids in that preview box, since it was just lagging massively. BUT now that i switched it to 1080x720, i can ACTUALLY watch the preview. this even when i had skype, firefox, and music playing at the same time. so that is a revelation!!! thanks buddy. i hope that might even speed up render times as well.

its pretty obvious that i dont know what the hell im doing in Vegas either. i just copied some TUT i saw on YT for settings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCIPiimbCqg
i have used these settings for a good portion of my commentaries. i like the effect some of the color/sharpness/tiny frame reduction/etc. have. assuming i used (our) settings to keep things lower quality (bit rate, quality, etc.) would u say that the color adjustments, blah blah and whatever would NOT take longer to render? or should i just go with Default to save time?

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yah, i posted that PS3 AVmulti-to-VGA thing up, but i deleted it once i realized it didnt have component-to-VGA. if im not recording live, its a no-go. (i suggest this to REDHAM, u should record live so u dont have to save to File Share, load the game, play the game, and record. if u record live, u save a massive amount of time assuming u play alot (which u do) and effort.)

Yeah, pretty much. I dunno how serious you wanna get here, but lots of those can be disabled. 46 Processes is kinda alot, & your commit charge is 940MB. A fresh Windows install has ~18. All those will consume Proc Power too. With 1GB of RAM, thats def an issue, esp since you're rendering HD video. This is one of the reasons people PCs 'get slow' after a while.

I'll look into what those are, but some only you will know what they are & if you're OK w/ disabling them.
Acc, if you run HijackThis, it'll help speed things up.
Choose "Do a system scan & save a logfile" (This only takes a matter of seconds.)
Then just copy-paste the entire log contents here.

ive looked up some prices on them. most seem really cheap (quality) and use the same stock picture... lots of the same model on amazon. then they have the same one, for even cheaper, selling on eBay from China. (which is cheaper shipping for me, and some amazon sellers wont sell internationally, or have heavy taxes in japan). i tried looking up the higher end ones, and they seemed to be similar as well! kinda worrisome.

if u record live, u cut all 3 of those processes out, which will save quite alot of time.
not sure, but i dont think u get how im doing it exactly.

i record every game i play. my PC mouse is near me, so i dont have to get up at all.
if it was a bad game, i delete it immediately in between games. (2 seconds)
if it was a good game, i rename it immediately (ex; 30-1 ffa nuke) so i know exactly whats on it. (20 seconds)

i dont sift through games. i delete immediately, or rename appropriately if keeping them. at the very least, it saves 5-10minutes PER GAME of wasted time that u are spending just watching the game u already played, not to mention the sifting u are doing of 100 vids.

I do like that live recordings give you a visual of where you drop KS's & the final killcam.

i am really curious why my vids get so much hate. i do what other ppl do. i do all aspects of gamplay. yes i camp time to time. i also go pure run&gun too. i dont stick to one perk/weapon/attachment. i use variation. maybe ppl dont realize im not 14 and cant rely on purely my reflexes, for lots of reasons. (im old, network lag, input lag, bad aiming in general). maybe that needs to be a disclaimer on all my vids.

Kuz, it was actually directed at this lol - but on the topic of hate for your vids...

It's a shame. There's some nasty stuff out there all right, and it's too bad it has to be that way, at least for now.

But if you're getting hate, or love, it must mean you are putting up something that gets a reaction right? People usually adore, or hate things that they can't do or things that are different.

Converter Stuff:

HDfury (I thought this would work, but it only has HDMI inputs available. Otherwise, it would!)
XCM 1080p Box
NextVision N6

I did some quick rendering tests the other day, using a small :45 clip. I got my RAM usage up to 1.7GBs, just short of my 2Gbs of total RAM, then started rendering. Then I did it again w/ all RAM free. No CPU was used in any of the tests, all same settings, etc.

720x480
RAM @ 1.7 GB
Render Time:
5:37

1280x720
RAM @ 1.7GB
Render Time:
9:13

720x480
RAM Free (~300MB)
Render Time:
1:59

1280x720
RAM Free (~300MB)
Render Time:
4:46

Of course, I don't wanna say you'll see the exact same results, but during the render I hit 2.3-2.5GB of RAM usage, which pushed into the pagefile, like you most likely do, esp w/ all those processes running. With all RAM free, it didn't, & was much faster. Anyway, there you are. Food for thought.

u are a sexy man, guz.
just coming off my rant of COD hatred, its hard to think about making vids about, well, shitty COD games! lol

but i know u put in a ton of effort to test this out. so i hope i do not sound ungrateful. u went far and beyond what a normal friend would do to offer advice or actual testing. for this, u get my eternal e-Props. (electronic Props? not sure what i want to say! maybe "i-Props" for internet-Props is better.)

k. enough with the lame talk. u rule.

i have some good news regarding my own renders. my older commentaries of ~10/11 minutes would inevitably render in 3.5hours. thats about 60-70min for every 3.5minutes of video. my recent "Dear Nuketown" was 3.5minutes, and rendered in exactly an hour. but last night, with basic changes, my 7.5min commentary was rendered in under an hour (didnt see the final time, since i had my PC shut off at like 3am). probably finished in the 45-50min range! very good news, as that alone cut down my rendering time by more than 50%. i didnt use any effects (other than my 10sec intro and 2sec outro). no color modifications or any sort of change, for that matter. i only resized the picture to cut out the black border. i am guessing that the "project settings" and actual "render settings" being the same, now, is what cut down most of the time. i will try to add the color effects (as in my past vids) to see how that effects the render time, in my next vid.

but with those very positive results u gave in the RAM tests, that would cut another 50% off, possibly. that is extremely enticing.
but how did u remove 1.4GB of RAM? stopped every program? inactivated them with msconfig? what do u mean, "no CPU was used in these tests"?

EDIt: wait, wtf?! it took nearly 5min to render a 45 second clip at ideal settings???!?! are u recording at perfect quality or something?