question on machine hosepower...

pedro333 wrote on 7/10/2003, 3:52 PM

I'm a pc user new to the video thing question is;
I purchased an intel mother board with P4 2.6ghz proc.,2gig ram it comes with fire wire input...is this enough to run Vegas??and also what vid-card do you guys recomend ...thanks a lot...Pedro

Comments

FuTz wrote on 7/10/2003, 5:46 PM

That should be more than enough.
Graphic card: if you like to play games, buy something according to it (I don't know very much in that field). But if you use it to edit video, Matrox G550/G750 are a good choice to my opinion. You don't need a $500 3D card.

MadMikey wrote on 7/10/2003, 6:25 PM

I agree with fUtZ above. I would add that you need 2 fast hard drives, 7200 RPM. One for your applications and one for capturing your video.

Mike

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/10/2003, 11:18 PM

If you're into games, get one of the newer ATI Radeon cards. Better then the NVidia one i understand. Also, vegas will run on almost ANY computer. Infact, when I bought it, I had a p3-667 with 256mb ram! :)

GaryKleiner wrote on 7/11/2003, 8:16 AM

>Also, vegas will run on almost ANY computer<

I am running it on an Etch-A-Sketch!
To reboot, I just turn it upside down and shake. ;-)

Gary

johnmeyer wrote on 7/11/2003, 10:26 AM

I have run its little brother VideoFactory on my 450MHz PC. Works fine and is very responsive. The renders take longer, obviously.

Vegas 4.0 I have run on my 700MHz laptop. Works fine, and simple renders (fades, disolves) render quickly.

The main reason to get a really fast machine (> 2.5 GHz) is to make the renders go faster. If you have lots of effects, titles, etc. and turn on resample and do a bunch of other things, rendering can take quite awhile. I can't really predict how long it will take, because I don't know how you plan to use Vegas. However, I can say that on any given machine, it will be faster and more responsive than any competitive product.