Thank you for being here-everyone

royfphoto wrote on 3/3/2015, 4:55 AM
I have been using Vegas since Ver. 8. I bought it the time because it was about half the price of the big boys (Avid & Premiere). At the beginning of February I had a "thermal event" that caused me to buy a new computer, not with the Resolve recommended $1000 graphics card, but the best I could afford. Being that I was spending a lot of down time (we have just had the coldest month recorded in 150 years) inside, I decided to try out the latest Avid, Premiere, Lightworks and Davinci being tired of , when asked the question: what do you edit with?, looking down and mumbling Vegas (known as the Vegas walk of shame). After hours of Linda.com tutorials and subjecting myself to "Adobe TV" I'm returning to Vegas + Catalyst Prepare. One of the main reasons is the helpfulness and kindness displayed on this forum.

Here is a exchange I had at the Davinci forum:

Q (me) : I have read the configuration guide and my system falls somewhat short, but still usable if I'm careful. I have 4 drives non-raid, 2 SSD's- 2 HHD's with my OPsys and program files on one of the SSD's. What would you recommend the distribution of files be with DV Resolve? Media files? Cache files? ect.Thank you.

A:Roy, can I ask you a mind boggling question?
Do you use resolve to do your own projects/studies or you have paid jobs to do? If is the latter, please consider invest in a more robust machine.

Thank you guys for being here. BTW: anyone here have a answer for the question I posed above?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/3/2015, 7:30 AM
You'll get the best performance if you keep your program files on your C drive and put your media and project files on one of your other drives. Your solid state drive would be ideal for your C drive, if it's large enough to accommodate your OS and programs. No reason to get more complicated than that.

Although if you've got a marginal computer, remember that even things like the size of your monitor and the distribution of media across several drives can tax your hardware. So there's that to consider too. And even a hot graphics card is no substitute for a fast processor.

I always reference these benchmarks when evaluating hardware. For the smoothest video editing, I'd recommend you only use a processor that rates at least a 6000. Is your processor on this list (or one of the other pages available from the dropdown menu)?
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

BTW, as an instructor the site, I do have to point out that the world's greatest online training is on lynda.com, not linda. ;)


royfphoto wrote on 3/3/2015, 9:35 AM
on your list I am a 10,101.