Rendering in HD is the cause of system low on memory.

[John Rofrano]

> any desktops you recommend for HD editng and rendering in pro 9.

I like to build my own. If I had to buy I would probable buy an HP Workstation (not their desktop line but their workstation line), or from a boutique builder like iBuyPower as Norman said. The good thing about HP is that they purposefully build some of their workstations for video editing and they are awesome. What’s good about a company like iBuyPower is that they use industry standard parts just like you would if you built it yourself. You even get to select what motherboard and brand of memory. If you ever want to upgrade, you can get parts anywhere.

The current QuadCore to own is the Intel i7. The low end 920 can be overclocked quite a bit from what I’ve read and is really a price performer. Memory on the i7 has a different channel configuration so instead of getting 2 sticks in pairs to make 4 or 8GB you need to get 3 sticks to get 3, 6, or 12GB. Probably the most critical thing for video editors is to have at least two physical hard drives so that your editing is on a separate drive from the swap file and temp space of the operating system.

~jr

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

[Norman Willis]

>>thanks for the replys i gonna look at some ‘cheap’ but powerfull desktops to render and use for editing and either keep my laptop or sell it.

Unless you really need the cash, may I recommend keeping the laptop, for emails and other stuff?

That way you can load only the software that you really need on the workstation, and when it is rendering stuff out, you can still use your laptop for other stuff.

Also, that way you do not take the risk of your workstation getting hit by a virus.

Just some thoughts.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Richard Zipf]

I am running Vegas Pro 9 x32 on a fast Dell Quad-core Vista x64 machine with 8GB of RAM and also experience the inability of Vegas Pro 9 x32 to render 1920×1080 MP4 files (same “insufficient memory error message”), in spite of deleting all non-essential background running processes.

I think it is a defect within Vegas, as I had no such trouble with Vegas Pro 8, & hope the Vegas gurus come up with a fix in the next Vegas Pro 9 upgrade.

[Lee Hayward]

to fix issue ive bought on a 7 day trial a dell studio 540 tower ( montior is my tv) to use it,its brand new, its quad core, 4gb ram Q4000 all at 2.33gHz, and exactly the same error message occurs, when open and rendering, my ram never goes past 2.gb out of 4.gb yet my cpu usage ( on both quad core pc and dual core laptop) goes through the roof to 100%, is it my footage? my fxs its edited well but not extremely edited like every clip, i really dont understand what the damn problem is, and i am extremely angry, i just have the urge to pick up the pc and through it through my window. any help.

on my quad core pc it occurs instantly
the laptop either instantly to 5 mins tops.

[Norman Willis]

>>to fix issue ive bought on a 7 day trial a dell studio 540 tower

>>i really dont understand what the damn problem is….

>>any help.

Lee, part of your problem is Dell. John Rofrano specified that Dell parts are inferior.

Ditch the Dell. Get an HP workstation (not desktop: workstation) or an IBuyPower rig.

Hope that helps.

Norman

[Lee Hayward]

is there a decent quad core workstation for under £500(im gonna look around now), because thats pretty much my limit, also i would like to know more about the partion drives, what would you reccomend the partion drives to be and how do you do it, as its a little bit confusing.

[Norman Willis]

Lee, I apologize. I don’t know how you can do it that cheap.

If you really need to, you might sell your laptop in order to come up with the cash. I would think that the minimum you would need would be at least 750 pounds.

Please follow the specs outlined on John Rofrano’s website closely.

And yes, HD requires a lot of resources.

I wish I could be more help than that.

[Lee Hayward]

well ive been looking around and i tried a programe which allow vegas to use more than 2gb ram but it didnt work, but ive read alot about 64bit pcs.

so im gonna stick with my laptop for personal uses and but a 64bit baseunit ( just the tower no monitor) and hook it up to my tv and use that as my monitor.

so im now looking for a 64bit quad core pc with 8gb ram(x64 bit will use all 8gb ram.)

and only install sony pro vegas 9.0a and will update when necessary

looking around the £400-500 margin.( only base unit/ tower)

dont know what manafacture i want, i like dell, cant afford HP workstation, any suggestions

what i cant understand is when i render my cpu usage goes to 100% but my ram/memory doesnt go past 2/2.5 gb out of 3gb which means it has more memory to use.

[Norman Willis]

I don’t quite get memory usage either.

I know that Sony does put out a minimum spec on the processor that one needs for HD. I think it is 2.8 GHz for a single-core processor, and I think John Rofrano said that 2.66 GHz will work in a Quad Core; but not to go any lower than that.

I know this stuff is expensive.

What are you doing videos for?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Lee Hayward]

youtube and burning to disc, in HD, just rendering to wmv in either 720p or 1080-60 template. videos around 10mins but complex with many clips(all in wmv) fxs, pictures, pngs… multiple songs, text.

so quad core at 2.66ghz thanks for that it should come handy the dell stuido 540 quad was only 2.33ghz but to play safe i might look for a quad core higher than 2.66ghz.. i just hope i dont get the same problem because then i would be stumped and have to put it down to sony pro vegas as many people are also getting these errors hopefully 9.0b is a fixes the issues.