720p Screen recording VS Uncompressed video editing - Hardware Requirements

[Morne]

Hi all

What's the difference between screen recording software and video editing the same resolution uncompressed footage?

As far as I understand, you need better hardware for the uncompressed video editing. The screen recording you dont need as high hardware spec as the recording software encodes the video on the fly in realtime and the footage is NOT uncompressed?

Is all that correct?

What sort of setup would you recommend for 720p screen recording? 2 Drives in Raid 0 fine for this?

[MoonDoggie]

I have no problems with a 2TB Seagate 7200rpm HD.

Limitations are usually thought of like this (overly simplified):

For working with compressed footage you want a better processor
For uncompressed footage you want a faster HD

^ I'm no expert on this subject, but that's how I understand it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[dans]

Yes you are right, when using a screen recorder that uses an optimized codec for that like Camtasia (TSCC - Techsmit Screen Capture Codec) it will only record the changes from frame to frame. So much less bandwith required then uncompressed video footage. I guess it depends on what you record, but I don't think you need RAID for that. Maybe helpfull to record to a separate disk then the one you are demonstrating stuff from (unless its a SSD).

Daniel