Hardware requirements

woodje wrote on 12/5/2001, 8:29 AM
Hello,

I have been looking at which product to get, and have just about decided on Vegas Video 3.0. What I will be doing primarily is audio (to produce sound cues for theatre productions). I am a little concerned about the stated hardware requirements. I am using a Dell latitude C800 laptop, with 256 Ram, and 20BG hard drive. The hard drive speed is only 4200, not 7200 as recommended.

I don't think I would ever have a space problem, as most tracks I produce are effects with an occasional background track that would not go over 15 or 20 minutes of audio, and any video clips would probably only be for 4 or 5 minutes at most. I have not seen any performance problems in running the demo so far, but I do wonder if any are in store for me.

Is anyone else using this software on a laptop?

Comments

Cheesehole wrote on 12/5/2001, 4:25 PM
if you intend to capture DV video to your laptop, you may have to invest in an external Firewire drive.

but if you are just doing audio, and you are satisfied with the number of tracks you can put into Vegas at the same time, then there is no reason to worry. it's purely a performance issue. your final renders will not be affected no matter how slow your HD is.

just make sure you test everything you are going to be doing with the demo.

it is best to set aside a partition for your audio files, and keep it defragged. that should help squeeze a little more performance out of your laptop hard drive.

- ben (cheesehole)