Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum10 (Desktop and general editing software question)

[Richard Graham]

I would tend to agree with you here. Get a good processor, I won’t get into arguments about Core i5 and i7, but some of the i5 processors are better value than the i7’s.

However, Hyperthreading is something to look at – I don’t believe the i5 is enabled.

Another point – Overclocking, yes, it is a tricky subject, but even if you run at stock speeds I would recommend a better cooler, something like the Cooler Master Hyper 212 + is a very good buy. (my i5 runs at 50C o/c’d from 2.7 to 3.8GHz) Without the Coolermaster….it would fry an egg!

Again, through experience, I would agree with your points here about not adding all of this additional CRAP – it is not needed.

Personally, I don’t even think an SSD as a system drive is worth the money at the moment, just get a fast 7200 Seagate as your system drive, stick a 1 TB 7200 Seagate in for your video, and maybe a third drive for all your relative file locations and references.

I am not ready to move up to an SSD at the moment, they seem a bit fickle.

Windows 7 x64, (get shot of Vista) keep your C drive for your system files, maybe put your video programming on D:\ and your Raw video on an E drive.

I am curious about peoples views towards Firewire.

I went for Win 7 ultimate x64, but it no longer seems to work with my ASUS 4 port firewire card, so am thinking of going to upgrade to a PCIE firewire…anyone have any experience? Non of the current Win 7 drivers will run my old Texas Instruments OHCI card, but the PCIE cards are about 5 times the price!!!

[Louis Zegarra]

actually VMS comes in two flavors 32/64 depending on your OS that you have installed. 32 can only see 2 gigs of memory. 64 can see as much as your motherboard has room for. The sweet spot seems to be between 9-12 gigs. As far a video card, don’t get a fancy over priced game card, for video rendering just get a brand name with 1024 megs. Now, if you are going with vegas pro then I would suggest the CUDA eenable card. If your CPU is Intel then go with if a NVIDIA GForce, if you have an AMD based system then go with ATI card.

my box is: OS=windows 7/64bit, CPU=AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T, MEMORY= 9 MB, VID CARD=RADEM 5770 1024, HD= 1TB

[John Rofrano]

[louis zegarra] “actually VMS comes in two flavors 32/64 depending on your OS that you have installed. 32 can only see 2 gigs of memory. 64 can see as much as your motherboard has room for.”

Vegas Movie Studio only comes as a 32-bit application. There is no 64-bit version. You can run the 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows but it runs in compatibility mode and is still only a 32-bit program with 2GB of addressable memory.

~jr

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