SHOULD I attempt HD Editing and MORE…

[Nigel O’neill]

That dual core processor set up should suffice. It’s on the low end of what I would recommend, and it will struggle previewing AVCHD content, but that is the case even with the most powerful of systems, including my own.

You can always trial editing AVCHD and set how your system handles it.

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

[Steve Rhoden]

Yes, you can edit your HD projects decently with that.

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[John Rofrano]

I would be interested to know if you can edit AVCHD on that because I disagree and feel that a Core i3 is woefully inadequate to handle HD video editing especially AVCHD.

According to Intel’s marketing, the Core i3 is for common tasks like listening to music, the Core i5 is for watching video, photos, email and Internet, and the Core i7 is for multimedia content creators. Since editing video is a content creation task, the Core i7 is the best platform. A Core i5 would be pushing it and a Core i3 can’t handle it.

If I were you, I’d download some sample AVCHD files from the Internet for camera that you’re thinking of using before investing in an AVCHD camera. I really don’t think your Core i3 will be able to keep up and your Intel Graphics card will be no help at all but I’m just going by Intel’s advice on their web site, as I would never buy anything less than a Core i7 for video editing and have never experienced a Core i3 myself.

~jr

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[Matt Schwartz]

FYI to all, with my little budget setup I imported AVC clips coming from an AF-100, some several minutes long put one formatted 1920x1080x12 progressive scan on the timeline and my setup handled it with NO PROBLEM. No dropouts, no glitches, no jigglies, no jaggies, even when scrubbing, just incredibly smooth, REAL NICE! What am I doing wrong? ….this setup JUST FLIES!

[John Rofrano]

[Matt Schwartz] “No dropouts, no glitches, no jigglies, no jaggies, even when scrubbing, just incredibly smooth, REAL NICE! “

Wow that’s great to know. I didn’t think a Core i3 would be up to the task.

~jr

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[Sergey Dalechinh]

really? don’t trust this stupid marketing. i3 processors have incredible speed, can easily be compared to most of i5-s.
I3-s fit for pretty much everything, as long as you are not using TOO much demanding applications. my i3 in a laptop(second generation), connected to a big, external display can handle:almost all of modern games(remember, it’s a laptop, so it’s a lot weaker than in a desktop), multiple displays, HD movies, multitasking and many other things. It’s not that great for video editing though(at least not with program I use) so for those who are gonna edit videos often I’d still recommend core i5. for pretty much everything else-go with an inexpensive and really fast i3

[John Rofrano]

[Sergey Dalechinh] “really? don’t trust this stupid marketing. i3 processors have incredible speed, can easily be compared to most of i5-s.”

Well, I’m also going by my own experience. I bought my daughter a Core i5 for editing her AVCHD videos in Vegas Pro and it was really stuttery and she hated it. I can’t imagine how bad a Core i3 would be. That was a few years ago when Core i5’s didn’t come in quads so maybe they’re all a bit better now but when they first came out the Core i3’s were pretty weak.

~jr

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[Sergey Dalechinh]

maybe you’re right, I’m not familiar with the first generation. But my second generation i3 in a laptop is quite decent(at least not bad) at editing videos. i7 aren’t… for everybody. they cost a lot and they are mostly oriented on professionals. i5 should do all of tasks quite easily. but of course, if you a professioal editor, creator, if you do it very often and in HD format, then i7 is definitely the only choice. if video editing is basic, not often and not HD, I’d stick to i3. if it’s quite often, sometimes HD I’d choose i5. if it’s all the time and it’s often HD it’s i7. My sourse is oly experience. I didn’t see any i3 ownsers who complained about speed yet. Also about your case of editing-it may have just been a poorly optimized editing program