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TLF wrote on 3/30/2006, 7:38 AM
I have an AMD 64 3500+ and I've not experienced any problems so far. However, I've not been using VMS extensively yet.

When I used Magix Movie Edit Pro, there was a patch available that resolved the problem of not being able to render to MPEG files. This only affected Athlon 64s based on the Venice core and newer.

Worley
gbrandon wrote on 3/30/2006, 12:25 PM
You may want to look at a dual core intel platform. As I read more and more on athlon, It seems like every benchmark I see has the athlon beating the intel in every test except in video editing. You may want to head over to www.2cpu.com and see if someone can answer your question better. I know one thing, I have a athlon fx-57 (single core) and when I capture video my processor is at 100%, yet with my new 2.0 dual core intel laptop it runs at 45%.

ggrussell wrote on 3/30/2006, 6:25 PM
My own testing shows that Sony's Vidcap.exe is very poorly written and most likely NOT AMD CPU friendly. When I run Sony's vidcap.exe on my Athlon XP 3000+, it too spikes at 98%+. However, when I run a freeware - WinDV- , it only uses about 18-22% of my CPU with ZERO dropped frames. I also have several other video editors and their capture apps average 40% CPU usage on my machine when capturing DV AVI. It seems to appear that Sony needs to rewrite their video capture app.