5400 RPM System Drive ok?

[John Rofrano]

A 5400 RPM boot drive should be fine. Especially since you’re keeping your video on faster 7200 RPM drives. It just makes the computer boot, swap, and load applications slower but once loaded I’m not sure you would notice any difference.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Brad Leigh]

John
Thanks so much! I will continue installing.
I’ll try to get one more question before I start here, so I don’t become one of those posters with lots of exclamation points.
I have used Vegas Studio Platinum 8 and 10 with HDV Files on my old dual core with no problems. Now I need to work from a 2 camera shoot. I would prefer to go AVCHD on the second camera (because I am purchasing this camera and want to get off tape)
I am upgrading to Vegas Studio Platinum 11.
Do you think an i7 2600 3.4 GHZ will handle AVCHD and HDV for simple cuts, dissolves and titles?
OR should I use a proxy codec? or can I just work with the AVCHD and HD.
Or would you suggest I just get a Cannon HV40 HDV camera, and avoid the AVCHD issue all together.
I’m a bit of a pest with this question I know, but I’m trying to get a feel for what I am facing before I buy the second camera, and before I shoot.
Thanks Again, you expertise is really appreciated!
Brad

[Steve Rhoden]

An i7 2600 3.4 GHZ can handle AVCHD and HDV quite well,
And to get the best out of your edits for both speed and features,
i would recommend you get the Pro version of Vegas instead.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
https://filmex-creative-media.blogspot.com/

[John Rofrano]

Yea, as Steve said you should have no problem with AVCHDC with those specs. I’m editing AVCHD with a 5 year old QuadCore and it’s smooth enough. (jumpy at times but overall not bad)

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Brad Leigh]

John and Steve
Thank you! Like I said just wanted to ask in advance.
I might upgrade to pro, I did just upgrade from 10 to 11 studio to tweek performance with AVCHD, but was disappointed to see Studio doesn’t take advantage of the extra ram in a 64 bit system.
It would have been nice if Sony listed that fact in their nice little comparison chart they have listing all the Vegas versions.
Anyway I really appreciate being able to ask these questions before I make any more purchases, and more important when I’m not trying to finish a project.
Brad

[Nigel O’neill]

I didn’t think you could buy 5400 rpm desk top drives! 🙂

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[John Rofrano]

[Nigel O'Neill] “I didn’t think you could buy 5400 rpm desk top drives! :-)”

A lot of the “green” drives that are coming out now are 5400 RPM.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Nigel O’neill]

That’s one way to move old stock 🙂 Re-badge it as ‘green’.

On the othre hand, with multi-terabyte sized drives becoming the norm, even though they may still run at 7200 rpm, they replace 3 or 4 drives we used to have to buy to get those sorts of capacities.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6