Is this enough for HDV editing with Vegas 6.0

MCS6867 wrote on 6/5/2006, 3:32 PM
Is this enough for HDV editing with Vegas 6.0?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology
Alienware nForce4 SLI Chipset Motherboard PCI Express
2GB Dual Channel Low-Latency DDR PC-3200 at 400MHz - 2 x 1024MB
RAID 0 500GB RAID0 (2 x 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 16MB Cache)
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

If not, could I please get some upgrade suggestions? Not too expensive as this is JUST beloe $2,000 around where I'd like to keep it.

Thanks

Comments

Yoyodyne wrote on 6/5/2006, 3:50 PM
Looks good to me - you might want to kick the AMD proc up a notch or two.
winrockpost wrote on 6/5/2006, 4:21 PM
i agree , with yoyodyne, go with the fastest proc you can. what you are looking at will work fine, but vegas loves speed, HDV or standard DV . I'd put the money in the proc and cut back on the ram if on a set limit.
MCS6867 wrote on 6/5/2006, 5:30 PM
Thanks. But now will this config (at 3800 level) give me bare-bones capabilities? I want to be as stutter and framedrop-free as humanly (or computerly) possible.

Thanks.
MH_Stevens wrote on 6/5/2006, 6:31 PM
Yes, more than enough for editing with an intermediary but not native.

Michael
Marco. wrote on 6/5/2006, 11:51 PM
>> I want to be as stutter and framedrop-free as humanly (or computerly) possible.

I have a X2 4.200+ dualcore. Stutterless playback of HDV and Intermediates is possible when having set the preview window set to "Preview (Auto)" and the display size not to big. Any full preview settings does not give me stutterless playback.

Marco
seanfl wrote on 6/6/2006, 7:14 AM
On my AMD 4.8 we can't achieve full frame rates on any setting with HDV (native) on the preview window. It's usually around 10 frame per second or less. Do I have something set wrong? To edit, I have to convert to an avi intermediary and do the editing then swap them at render time.

Sean
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Marco. wrote on 6/6/2006, 7:40 AM
Did you set your project settings according to your hdv footage? It should match.

Marco
MH_Stevens wrote on 6/6/2006, 8:50 AM
*******"Did you set your project settings according to your hdv footage? It should match."************

If you shoot 60i and are making a 24p project this will not be true.

Marco. wrote on 6/6/2006, 8:57 AM
If we talk about why one can have 25 fps playback while another one is only having 10 fps, mmh ... ;-)

Marco