Buying Advice Please

Bruce E wrote on 5/17/2015, 4:39 PM
This is my first time here, love the product and am glad to find the forums. My associate and I are using v11 of Vegas to make HD videos for upload to a server. He is temporarily in Germany so we need to set him up for remote operations. I am planning on getting a laptop here, front-loading the programs and then sending it to him.

My question concerns choosing, in your opinion, among the big three: processor speed, ram, and hard drive capacity. We are trying to determine if we are okay running a 1.9 or 2.0 processor if we have 6-8 in ram on board. We also wondered if performance is effected by hard drive size of that is not an issue. Is it better to have more ram or more GHz for making movies?

It seems with the rush to cloud the processors are coming down in size for laptops, and under 2 GHz is common now. We are not wanting to invest a fortune for a temporary fix, and this will be dedicated offline computer.

Your help and insights are greatly appreciated and we both thank you in advance.

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vkmast wrote on 5/18/2015, 2:18 AM
You might also remember that Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 11 (assuming you're referring to that with "v11 of Vegas") is a 32-bit application and
as such "is running up against a built-in memory limitation."
32 bit -vs- 64 bit
The v11 builds #283 and later "can now address up to 4 GB of memory when running on a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows 7."

Movie Studio Platinum 13 is available as both 32-bit and 64-bit.
MSP 12 is 32-bit and 64-bit as well, but can't be purchased direct from SCS any more.
Vegas Pro 11 is 32-bit and 64-bit as the KB link above says.
Bruce E wrote on 5/18/2015, 6:36 PM
Thank you very much, the information has been most helpful. Yes I am running VMS HP Platinum, and so have wound up against the 32 versus 64 bit wall. It would seem that as long as we purchase within the reasonable modern parameters we will be fine.. Obviously whether our Win 8.1 machine has 4 or 8 gb of ram and is 64 bit is of little difference in the case of the older Sony program.

I appreciate your help and will add this knowledge our shopping ideas.