Computer

jkerry wrote on 5/1/2006, 2:15 PM
Gentlemen:

The church leaders have asked what would be a good CPU setup for just using Vegas and DVDA.

I am not up on Mac's so it would have to be a Windows base system.

It shounds as if they are willing to purchase me a system touse just for our videos and the one I have now for all the other things they have me do on the computer.

So, any suggestions would help.

Tks,

Jeff

Comments

jrazz wrote on 5/1/2006, 2:31 PM
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vitalforce wrote on 5/1/2006, 2:48 PM
Vegas will just about run on an electric typewriter.

If the church wants to save money, no problem. A current eMachine with a good size second drive or firewire drive would do the trick.

(A machine with an input for the video camera too, of course, presumably firewire. I say this because many computers nowadays have USB 2.0 and not built-in firewire ports.)
riredale wrote on 5/1/2006, 5:02 PM
I'm not so sure about running on an electic typewriter (Vegas doesn't have a "whiteout" key) but the point is pretty much valid. I've never seen an NLE that (1) is so utterly reliable, and (2) runs on pretty much anything.

I have it on my 1.6GHz Celeron Dell laptop, and it runs great. The laptop can even edit HDV video as long as they are Gearshifted.
johnmeyer wrote on 5/1/2006, 6:05 PM
I've run it on a 450MHz computer; a 750MHz laptop, and several other computers that are in the low GHz realm. If you are going to do a lot of work, it sure is nice to have something closer to 3 GHz, but it certainly is not necessary, especially if you are mostly doing cuts.
soaringrocks wrote on 5/1/2006, 10:08 PM
"The church leaders have asked what would be a good CPU setup for just using Vegas and DVDA. "

"Good" is a very relative term.... and since this is often a near religious topic for a lot of peoople you're going to get a bit of preaching on that question too. However, to get the kind of answer I think you're looking for you need to give the assembled wisdom of the forum some clues. Processors are not the only factor. Poorly matched memory and hard disk space to the task can bring even fast processors to their knees.

When selecting a computer for video editing keep one simple rule in mind...

Some is good, more is better, and too much is just enough!

Processors. Rendering video is extremely processor intensive. Get the fastest processor you can reasonably afford. Dual processors are an advantage because Vegas can have several computational "threads" running at the same time and therefore farm work out to the extra processor cores to finish rendering more quickly. Two dual processors (for a total of four processor cores) is state of the art for most people.

Memory. I'd start with 1 Gigabyte of RAM at a minimum. Personally I think that 2 gigabytes is a sweet spot right now.

Hard Disks. Buy the biggest drive you can reasonably afford. I haven't heard any person doing editing say that they have too much hard disk space (ever). I like the new Serial ATA drives, but you can go bigger for the same $$$ if you buy the older ultra DMA drives. I'd start with a minimum of 250Gig but if you have HDV you'll consume that much space pretty quickly. Strongly consider buyng an external firewire or USB2 drive to add capacity. This allows you expandable room and means you can easily move your (huge) movie files to other systems.

Good luck.
Edward wrote on 5/1/2006, 10:38 PM
I do alot of church video stuff. get a vaio. if all you're doing is DVD's, then this should do the trick. if not, dell's gotta few good options if price is your concern.

i edit on an alienware dual athlon (of all things) and a dell dual xeon. wish i had a boxx, but oh well.

remember, if you're doing alot of week to week stuff, then you'll need alot of hard drive space. go for 800 Gb, or even a TB. you'll need it. things get cluttered real fast.