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Chienworks wrote on 10/21/2006, 1:57 PM
Windows won't use more than 2GB for any one program, so your question is kinda moot. On top of that, Vegas is very memory-conservative. You probably wouldn't notice much worse performance if you dropped from 2GB down to 512MB. I've been editing 1080p HD on my desktop with 384MB with no problem.

About the only thing Vegas needs lots of memory is handling large or lots of still images.
billynmi wrote on 10/21/2006, 6:47 PM
Kelly, a few questions if you don't mind. What camcorder do you have that outputs 1080p. What program do you use to edit the HD and do you have a HD burner. If so what make and model is it. I now have a Sony VX2100 and wondering when is the right time to get in the HD business. Every thing is so expensive right now. The only HD DVD player I have seen is about 1000 dollars. Also are you familiar with the AVCHD format. Thanks,
Billy
Chienworks wrote on 10/21/2006, 9:13 PM
Billy, sorry to disappoint you, but the answers to your questions are pretty much negative. I only have an SD camcorder. The HD files i work with are animations that i've created. I use Vegas 6 (prior to today) and Vegas 7 (starting today) for editing. I don't have a specific HD burner, though i can use my current DVD burner to put HD content on a DVD. My HD player is my AMD Turion64 notebook PC (way less than $1000). And nope, no idea what the AVCHD format is. Sorry.
billynmi wrote on 10/22/2006, 10:17 AM
Thanks Kelly. AVCHD is a new high definition digital video camera recorder format recording 1080i and 720p onto certain media using efficent codec technologies. (Advanced Video Codec High Defintion). Sony has several AVCHD camcorders and video editing software developers will soon release applications for editing AVCHD video. The best thiing about this format is that you can burn the vido onto an ordinary DVD. Then you can play the DVD on a Blu-ray Disc player It sounds as if this format has real potential. Check out the web site www.avchd-info.org.
Malcolm D wrote on 10/22/2006, 11:54 AM
Hello
I have had major problems with editing HDV files if I use scene splitting (with HDV Split). You seem to get low memory errors and crash with more than about 75 clips using VMSP6 and all updates.
It improved slightly on the last update. I use a P4 3.0GHz with 1GB Ram. It seems to be OK if you work with large capture files.
Based on the advice above you probably won't get any improvement by adding Ram but I would be interested to know how many HDV clips you can add to a project using 2GB.
I had project with 880 clips and had to use the whole of tape capture files.