Will Video Editing on a PC ever truly work?

[Leo Blees]

I edit on a Sony Vaio laptop, Vista, CS4, 4gbram with no problems.
I also have a bunch of music production software installed and running at the same time. Making sound tracks and effects as the work progresses.
I used to have a mac and that worked fine to.

Sometimes I think that when it comes to computers is just a matter of being lucky/unlucky 🙂

Leo

[Jerry Cast]

Leo,

It’s gotta be the Vista use of memory over Win XP Pro then. That’s what I’m starting to see with all these posts from everyone.

Thanks.
Jerry

Jerry
http://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Brian Louis]

Even if you have Vista 64 and 8-16gigs of ram, Ppro is still a 32bit app and has a memory allocation limit of 2 gigs, on a 32bit system there is more of a chance of that 2gigs being stepped on because of the 4gig system limit particularly if there is a high memory video card sucking up a gig or more of the 4gig allocation and a bloated(untuned) OS contributing also
Out of memory messages are not necessarily all caused by Ram, they can involve disk memory and virtual memory settings.

[Tim Kolb]

[Brian Louis] “Even if you have Vista 64 and 8-16gigs of ram, Ppro is still a 32bit app and has a memory allocation limit of 2 gigs, on a 32bit system there is more of a chance of that 2gigs being stepped on because of the 4gig system limit particularly if there is a high memory video card sucking up a gig or more of the 4gig allocation and a bloated(untuned) OS contributing also”

Take your 4 Gig XP machine and right-click on the “my Computer” icon (or whatever you named it in a custom install) and select the “General” tab…it will say there are 2.5 Gigs of RAM available…even though there are 4 installed.

Ppro is indeed a 32 bit app (is FCP 64 bit native these days?) and it will ask for 2 Gigs max, but what that assertion isn’t taking into account is that a Photoshop and After Effects background app(s) boot with PPro so dynamic link is cued and ready, and with CS4, there is some sort of Media Encoder exporter that is idling in wait as well…

Each of these apps would like 2 Gigs please…

Obviously having the system only recognize that there is 2.5 in the machine leaves you slicing it pretty thin, and every one of those executables is starved for system memory…

Jerry, I think your question about whether moving to “…Vista 64 will make everything run perfectly” is probably a sarcastic one, as we all know that computers and software don’t run perfectly…at least not for the most of us who keep pushing these systems beyond their capabilities…but I can say that Adobe has always needed significant RAM to operate comfortably…lots of reasons…

You can call it good or bad, but it’s the fact (Final Cut Pro needs some RAM too). You can certainly run Adobe on a Mac if you wish…I’ve run on both and a Mac works just fine as well.

Vegas is an example of an NLE that scales down for a smaller system with unusual grace for a computer-based video editing package if you’re looking for a solution that works that way…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Jerry Cast]

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Hey, Tim. You can think whatever you want, but don’t tell me, and these other people that I’m being sarcastic because you “think” so.

Everyone here who is giving me advice I respect, and appreciate. I simply generalized.

I don’t play games with people.

[Deleted User]

Hello Jerry,

Yes I found many custom build save money or some are actually more expsneive that shops build like Gaming rigs. I am running on a 512mb graphics card Nvidia Quadro here. The main thing is the CPU, the q6600 is ag reat processor I have one here.

The out of meoery I always got on 32bit Vista or even XP, when i tested out 64bit these problems went away. Although cs3 was not built for 64bit so certain things were now unstable. Cs4 does work very fast on 64bit and since this I have not had these out of memory errors on projects which is good. If you do a search under the Premiere pro forum for my name you will see a huge long thread of problems I were getting.

If you need any help or advice please feel free to email me personally if you need to.

leo@syncfilms.com

Leo

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Leo Baker
Sync Films
United Kingdom
http://www.syncfilms.com
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[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Leo, I will.

I hadn’t had the 3 GB switch in my boot.ini file, and it was recommended that I insert it, so we’ll see if that helps.

I’ll keep you posted.

Jerry

[Tim Kolb]

[Jerry Cast] “Hey, Tim. You can think whatever you want, but don’t tell me, and these other people that I’m being sarcastic because you “think” so.

Everyone here who is giving me advice I respect, and appreciate. I simply generalized.”

Um…I wasn’t criticizing you or your responses. I just latched onto that ‘perfect’ and wanted to note that I suspect you were being a bit tongue in cheek.

I was just noting, for those who might have thought that anyone was making a claim that any NLE configuration is absolutely solid for every conceivable workflow, that you simply can’t make that claim. Avid has limitations and hangups, FCP has its issues too…no one is immune.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[George Socka]

Ah yes – the RT2000 – still holding a door open somewhere. Now, nothing but vanilla PC. For the past 9 years.

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com

[Jerry Cast]

Ok, sorry, I’m guess I’m just a little touchy from growing up fighting with everyone in Brooklyn, ha, ha.

Take care.

Jerry