Editing Station

alfredsvideo wrote on 10/30/2003, 3:29 PM

I have bought a computer to be used solely for editing with Vegas and authoring with Architect. Although my old computer used to sing along nicely, I thought things might go better with a more powerful machine, without any Internet or other rubbish to muddy the waters.
I'm now ready to fill the new machine with lead and use it for a boat anchor!!
The problems are too many to mention, but centres on numerous "Windows has encountered a serious problem and must close down", during rendering
and burning, (when I eventually GET to that stage).
I finally thought I'd made it, but after rendering to a Pal Architect template and a separate AC3 audio, ( which is what I've done successfully many times on my old machine), guess what? No audio!!

AMD 2.4
1g Ram
Epox Motherboard
nVidia nForce2 1GP-128 chipset
LiteOn DVDRom
Pioneer AO6 Burner
Running Windows XP Pro

My thoughts are being directed towards a Motherboard problem.Does anyone have any comments to make about this particular one? Thanks

Comments

scotty_dvc80 wrote on 10/30/2003, 3:44 PM

I think motherboard.. when reading.. I get to bottom of your post and there it is.."My thoughts are directed at motherboard" comment... I have basically same system.. AMD 2400xp with ASUS mini ATX and coolermaster 610 case in black ; )

Kinda like a fine piece of stereo equipment.. makes for a nice editing machine.. It works ok.. I think I need a larger CPU but it works ok.. I upgraded from a AMD XP2000 which is 1.6 MHZ to a 2400 which is 2 gig.. Didnt see that much of a difference really.. It gets to stuttering a lil bit when previewing in Best full setting.. My dream machine will be a AMD 64 bit processor later when the software supports it.. I hope SOFO makes their software to support this new technology...

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/30/2003, 6:23 PM

I agree. Epox screams trouble in most instances of multimedia authoring. Look to kill all background anything, look for resource sharing, the same ole' stuff that bites most of us in the butt when it comes to simple little things preventing big things from happening.