Is Sony Vegas Pro 12 Compatible With Dell XPS 8500

[Steve Rhoden]

Yes it is!
As long as its 64bit, with a decent video card and not less
than 8GB of Memory…Therefore your machine is good to go with
smooth sailing using Vegas Pro 12.

Steve Rhoden
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[John Rofrano]

[Greg Gorman] “Hi there I’m not to good with computers but have the Dell XPS 8500 machine. I want to buy Sony Vegas Pro 12 but before I do so I want to know if my machine can handle it?”

Well… the Dell XPS 8500 may not handle the milticamera editing that you want to throw at it. That machine only has a Core i5 and Intel’s recommendation is that content creators use a Core i7, especially since you are looking to stress the system. It will work, but it won’t be optimal with only 4 threads.

~jr

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[Greg Gorman]

Thanks for your reply

The PC Dell XPS 8500 I have has Intel i7-3770 Processor (340GHz .8MB)
Memory : 8192MB (2x4GB) Ram 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
Hard Drive: 2TB SATA 7200 Rpm + 32GB SSD Intel SRT
Graphics: 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7770
Sound: Integrated 7.1 with Wave MAXX Audio 4
Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium 64 BIT

Should this be ok to handle 9 Cameras on full HD res with multi camera editing on Sony Vegas Pro 12 all at the same time with 1 hour of footage per camera or do I need more Ram?

[John Rofrano]

[Greg Gorman] “Should this be ok to handle 9 Cameras on full HD res with multi camera editing on Sony Vegas Pro 12 all at the same time with 1 hour of footage per camera or do I need more Ram?”

Oh, I didn’t realize that the Dell XPS 8500 could be configured with a Core i7. That should help. More RAM will helps well. The rule of thumb is 2GB for each core but since the i7 is hyperthreaded you probably have 8 threads so 16GB of RAM will help.

You didn’t say what format the HD cameras shoot but if they shoot AVCHD, you will be very hard pressed to edit 9 cameras of HD. You may need to us a digital intermediary like CineForm and you also might need a RAID 0 to keep up with 9 streams of HD. I’ve never edited that many cameras so I’m just speculating here. I’d be interested to hear how well that PC does.

~jr

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