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What to upgrade for video editing
I want to do some video editing in Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD but my hardware doesn’t seem to be good enough for rendering good previews in real time. Too see anything i haft to set the preview to low quality draft mode and it’s still pretty jerky.
I know I’m pretty far from any top specs but if i want to start upgrading my system, where do you guys suggest i start?
This is what I’m running today:
OS: MS Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13GHz
Memory: 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz
Graphics: 256MB Radeon X1950 Series -
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Mette, you don’t mention what kind of video you are editing. I assume HD.
Optimum: I would sell that machine and buy a newer one. The core duo is not the best processor for this kind of HD work. It’s really for office machines. I would (and do) run on a i7 running 64 bit W7 with a mimimum of 8 GBs RAM. You can get by with an i5 and 4 GBs of RAM, also a dedicated video card of 1GB RAM, mimimum supporting CUDA. Also, with USB 3 you actually can do a decent job of editing on a laptop, as I’ve found.
I believe that you are limited with Movie Studio as it is a 32 bit application. Upgrading to Vegas Pro 64 on Windows 7 64 bit is probably a good way to go.
So if a limited budget, and limited choices, do this: Max out your computer’s RAM to at least 4 GBs. Upgrade your video card. But by then, you might as well have bought a new machine. With i5 laptops coming in around $600 (with a better than bottom end video card), with 4GBs RAM to start with, 64 bit Windows and fast hard drives, why not upgrade? And then the desktop world if you don’t need portability is more power for the money.
Alf
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Yeah I had this idea where I could keep using some of the old components from my desktop. But when you put it that way it sounds like a much better idea too just buy a new one.
Thanks for the informative reply, and maybe now I’ll have an extra home-server! 🙂
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