Will Video Editing on a PC ever truly work?

[Charlie Steiner]

my experience is that CS3 will run will on WinXP but should be run on a clean re-install of the OS. I had a sluggish system and found a huge difference after doing a clean install of windows – SP2. premiere and encore both work much better. I have the CS4 suite on a new vista business 64 Dell T3400 with Quadro FX1700 and it works. of the production suite programs only photoshop CS4 does OK on a less-than-approved system.
– charlie

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[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Charlie!

I used to load freight trains by hand in Jersey City.

Take care.

Jerry

[Frank Pereira]

I have been running a succesful video production company for the last 9 years and I base all my editing work on PCs all running Adobe products and others. I use windows XP and have threee edit bays. My computers usually have Premiere and after effects open and running at the same time and I have to say that it works very well. All my PCs have adecuate RAM and good Intel processors. No problem. I have to admit that the Apple machines run very well but for my part of the world they are still quite expensive especially parts and service. I produce everything from a 30 sec spot to a Corporate video to a weekly 30 min TV show.

[Jerry Cast]

Frank,

Hi, thanks, very encouraging.

It was suggested that I add the 3 GB switch to my boot.ini file to help CS3 run better.

Do you have this switch in your boot.ini file? Just curious.

Thanks again.

Jerry

[Ken Mitchell]

I hate to sound preachy,but my mac pro dual quad core with final cut crashed 3 times this morning with a client in the room. I finished the job a pc using vegas 9. No platform or editing system is perfect.

[Jerry Cast]

Ken,

Thanks for sharing that. This is all very educating for me.

Have you figured out why so many problems as of a sudden?

If you do narrow it down, it would be helpful to hear how it was resolved.

Thanks again.
Jerry

[Tim Ward]

I know this thread is old, but I just wanted to jump to the (senselessly-wasted) defense of the Matrox RT2000. I custom-built a system around the RT2000 in 2001 based on Matrox’s approved configurations/components, and had rock-solid performance from it – from the original P3/450 to a different (approved) mobo with dual P3/733’s – it was solid with Premiere 6.0 and After Effects 5.0 & 5.5. I still have it if anyone wants to buy it! (half-kidding) 😉

Tim