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What computer setup do I need to render videos?
I have an XP machine with 3.25 gigs of ram, and intel core 2 2.4GHz processor, a pretty good invidia video card (512mb I think), 500GB hard drive. Yet I never have enough memory to render videos. I did all the things people say to do, I went to the secret menu, I changed the boot.ini file to allow 3GB in the cache, still I render one video and then I can’t render the next until I clear the cache and restart AFX and even thats not enough sometimes. My videos aren’t too intense, about 45secs with a keying and a mask. I am going to ask my employeer for a new computer, what should I get? or what should I upgrade?
Thanks.
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well video is not my primary job, I use Adobe Flex, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, primarily, I sometimes have to make videos which I use After Effects and sometimes premiere. All CS3 currently. The videos I make are either promo videos for the in-store screens with no sound where I basically just manipulate text and images. And we take green screen videos of people talking to put on the website where I key-out the green background and mask anything left. These are exported as .FLV for use on the website. Not sure what else I can say.
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well the videos I make for the instore screens, I am not using any real footage, I am importing images (I make in PS) and text and moving them around to make a video. Other videos come from a video production company where they just take the green screen footage not sure what all they do with it before they send it to me, they deinterlace it, but I have to do the keying myself.
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john,
How many programs (Applications) are running at the same time? Do you have After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop and other programs running concurrently? Please try to understand that no matter what you type in on your secret menus, etc. the operating system will take whatever it needs to run that computer. All other applications are secondary to your computer. If you had your machine running for a while, you may have a few TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident) applications running without your knowledge. Unload or quit all unnecessary applications.
That being said, 3 GBs of RAM is a measly amount when you plan to edit video, while running AE/Photoshop, your video editor loaded with a bunch of effects and then asking AE to do a RAM preview. When you invoke a RAM playback command, your computer will first check for freely available RAM. It will use whatever available and then will start caching files on designated overflow hard-drive/s. So, when you want to do a second RAM preview, you may have to flush what was cached before. the situation might even get worse if you try to playback HD footage.
Also, if you have loaded a bunch of video clips, it will affect the performance of your RAM play back feature as well. This again depends on your CPU, quality and quantity of RAM, how fragmented your hard-drives are and a gamut of other factors.
The best solution would be to convince your employer to get you a new computer specially designed to do your job. As far as RAM is concerned, more the merrier. However, to use 4 or more GBs of RAM on a PC, you may have to go with a 64bit OS.
Hope this helps you a bit.
Good luck,
Neil
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