computer requirements for editing HD?Vegas?

[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.

[saxel]

It depends what processor is in your notebook. If you have Celeron, I'm afraid, it is no match for comfortable working.

[soulsurfer]

I'm curious, how much would having 2 or 4GB of ram increase the speed versus 512MB or 1GB?

[fotomange]

Yes I wonder 2, what kind of computer do you need? Is there any program that benefit from 2 processors?

[fotomange]

Does graphic cards made for games with directx10 speed up the progress?

[davittt]

Adobe premiere requires:

Pentium 4 3.4GHz processor for HDV or dual Intel Xeon™ 2.8GHz processors for HD

512MB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD

but you also need a fast hard drive or else it wil be a real pain to edit video in HD

[booster]

Saxel,
It's an Intel Pentuim(R) 4CPU 2.8GHz I'm not sure about the speed of the hard drive. I can crank it up to 2 gigs ram if needed also.

I really hope this is good enough...

[toni1]

Capturing to computer do not need much horse power.
Editing is another problem.
Some NLE (non linear editing) uses smart render . It means that if you for instance cut a sceen in a whole video , its only that part that will be renderd and this is good for week PC like mine since it takes very little time if you dont abuse using too many complicated transitions ( Athlon 2600 1 DDR giga memory 7200 maxtor and an AGP8 old videocard with ddr memory) :
-Ulead VideoStudio 10 plus is the least expensive and do that very well on my PC
-more expensive but reputated very stable Sony Vagas 7 needs an add on you have to buy separately (the bill climbs up)
Some other solution exist but are much more expensive

1- Ulead VideoStudio plus is the cheaper

[toni1]

Here is the missing part:
2- -more expensive but reputated very stable Sony Vagas 7 needs an indipendent add on you have to buy to do this
3- Some other solution exist but are much more expensive

[lovehateHDV]

Originally Posted by soulsurfer

I'm curious, how much would having 2 or 4GB of ram increase the speed versus 512MB or 1GB?

If you have Vista, you need a min of 1 Gig. My idle memory usage is 700MB. So, if you get lots more RAM, you will have less drive-paging (using harddrive for RAM.) Which will improve performance in double-digits.

CPU?

If you apply (lots of) effects to the video- look for the highest freq cpu. Core 2 Duo doubles MPEG2 encoding per cycle, but only if you have a plain convert session. Adding effects shows its low freq downside. However, it is still the best in the world for desktop video editing.

and they are easily overclockable. I have E6700, runs as high as 3.85 with 965 intel chipset.