Lucas Windsor
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First and foremost you need to make sure that no other program is running and that you get rid of any unneccary processing running in the background. It sounds as if you don’t have enough memory to render the whole file.
Try restaring first and if that does not work I would call adobe.
How much RAM do you have and how big is the project, in terms of minutes?
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If you have have a firewire port on your computer canopus makes a box that will convert the output from firewire to video. You then just plug in any TV with composite jacks.
Its called the advc110.
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Things will be sluggish when editing video, but you can do it. I have before and I will never do it again, but if you have to do it that way then you have no choice. Your amount of RAM should help a little.
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Ok thanks! I figured it was something like that.
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I would recommend looking at gaming laptops. They are always loaded with better graphics cards and the higher end processors. It really depends on how much money you are willing to spend.
You can go with any vendor but you really wanna make sure to get enough RAM and the fastest processor you can afford. For around 2,700 bucks you could get a Dell Xps laptop that has the following hardware.
2.6ghz Core Duo
6GB Ram
17 inch screen
500GB HD
NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 9800M GT with 1GB2 GDDR3 MemoryYou could get by with a bit less, but for me when I spend the money I want a system that will last a few years. You could step down the GPU and memory a bit and save some money.
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In Premiere Pro CS4 when you hit export it brings up a dialog box that allows you pick all your rendering settings. Once you hit OK it brings up your project in Adobe Media Encoder. This is a different program, but it works seamlessly. It allows you to keep working while rendering.
I have worked with both editing suites and there is some new things to learn between the two, but overall they have a similar enough feel that migrating from one to the other shouldn’t be a big issue.
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No system is perfect. My best advice would to be save up and buy a Mac, but if you are dedicated to PC then Dell’s are some of the best. Sometimes the customer service can be a bit frustrating, but overall I have had few problems with all the dells we have owned.
I owned a Dell XPS 700 that we used for video and after effects and it worked quite well. The system I showed you is a bit more powerful then the one I had, so it will work with video just fine. If you are planning to work with any HD video you may run into a few slowdowns but for SD editing it should be quite fast.
Here is a review of the system I showed you.
https://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/dell-studio-xps/4505-3118_7-33396858.html?tag=mncol;lst
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I am not totally against buying a computer from Best Buy, but I have heard so many horror stories from people. Personally I always bought our systems straight from the manufacturer.
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With a shoestring budget like that you need to make sure you have enough processing power and enough memory. I would recommend a Dell system. I now use a Mac Pro for all my video design, but I used a dell beforehand and it worked really well.
You can get a dell Xps Studio for $899.00 It has the new i7 architecture that makes things like video editing faster. It also comes with DDR3 memory, which is nice and fast. The only downside is that this one does not come with a monitor. Here are the general specs on this machine.
i7 Quad Core 2.66ghz
4GB DDR3 memory
640GB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 3450 256MBThe only thing that could be better is the graphics card, but the one it comes with is fine and will do the job well. Luckily it is very easy to upgrade these in the future. If you have the extra dough I would bump the memory up to 6GB as well, but that is something you can do in the future when needed.
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If you are exporting or “rendering” your movie then rendering the timeline beforehand doesn’t do anything helpful to the process.