computer requirements for editing HD?Vegas?

[lovehateHDV]

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/mbe2whatsnew.html#chart

DV video acceleration.


A little slower for HD. Depends on the format again. If you use plain HDV- nothing will help. Convert to Sony Intermediate for realtime editing.




Best of luck.

[bretriedel]

"H.264 is part of QuickTime, which does not support Vista, so it's no use for me."

Whaaa??

[Jake Ironshirt]

Originally Posted by booster

What are the computer requirements for editing video in HD shot with a HC7 camera?

I saw on sony vegas that a 2.8 processor and 512 ram is necessary.

I have an HP pavilion laptop with a 2.8 processor and 1 gig of ram, my video card is kinda crappy (NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600) and since it's a laptop I can't change it.

Will I be OK to edit? I don't mind if it runs slow during the process, I just want to be able to get the job done.

I don't have a HD camcorder yet but I have a HP Media Center computer I bought last Sept. that has the AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 3800 + 2.00GHZ 960 MB of RAM, I don't have vista but it's Vista preium ready and I wonder if and when I get a HD camcorder would I have the same problem? I'm not a computer guru but if I need more of what ever I guess it's good to know now.
Thanks Jake

[toni1]

i've been discussing the issue of pc requierment all over and so lovehatehd

I've got an Athlon 2600 old simple core
around 1 giga ddr2 memory
A "normal" 300 giga hard drive

Thats why I have chosen Ulead VideoStodio 10 plus

That means that after editing (cutting-transitions titles etc) when I render to produce same mpeg2-hd files its only the modified small parts that are rendered (very fast : Its as if I had not a dual but a quadra core )

I read these files through my new laptop with hdmi output to 720p hd ready projectors and very happy since blue ray are not affordable yet

Of course if I had to compress to another format like DivX hd or WMV-HD I'll loose some advantage over a more speady recent dual core

I dont know if Vegas with Cineform is making smart rendering (I thing that its only an editing facility: mabe LoveHate can answer)

[lovehateHDV]

Originally Posted by bretriedel

"H.264 is part of QuickTime, which does not support Vista, so it's no use for me."

Whaaa??

Clarifying- H.264 "could" work if only I maybe purchased CODEC from anybody other than Apple, Inc.

The Apple stuff don't work on Vista yet. Buffer overrun! problem.

So, Microsoft is again playing the monopoly with latest offering.

[Stav]

Has anyone noticed whether, given the same PC hardware, RAM, CPU etc, Windows XP or Vista runs smoother and quicker with more CPU overhead when editing video on Vegas Platinum? There is a theory that the newer operating systems hog more resources and therefore best to keep it trim.

[toni1]

Have done a speed rendering test between my dual core laptop running Xp with optimized videostudio10 plus and my old pc running with Athlon 2600 with same NLE and Xp .
Result not that much rendering time difference.

Vista (not the basic Vista) is 64 bits optimized but takes a lot of place (needs at leas 2 giga memory).

If you run Vista on a 64 bits new PC with at least dual core ( quadra core better upon testing) and if Vegas is optimized for 64 bit architecture (I think it is ) and if you have a lot of RAM then it "should" be faster.

As you see ther's a lot of ifs

[lovehateHDV]

I just switched back to XP.

First of all- the speed of everything.
Second- nice, crisp fonts- not Vista blur (even though it's called ClearType or something)
Third- my audio interface works again!
Fourth- I have an extra gig of RAM available.
Fifth- Vista is plain ol' junk.


As for rendering- speed is the same- albeit Vista is optimized for dual-core. XP does not utilize all the resources as well.

Memory- as I said previously, I have an extra gig available.

[toni1]

Wise,
I wont switch to Vista myself for the moment (much resource consuming)

Maybe sometime in the future (3-4 years maybe) when the whole chain (soft and hard) will realy work smoothly togother and fastly with real life mesured substatial gain in a 64 bits architecture (waiting for future reviews)