Upgrade to Vegas pro?

Stevebol wrote on 11/23/2007, 6:56 PM
I'm thing of upgrading to Vegas 8 from Movie Studio Platinum.I'm not sure it's a good idea since my laptop is getting a bit long in the tooth.It's a 2.0GHZ Toshiba with a 64MB dedicated graphics card and 1.5 GB of ram.I do everything on one computer;video editing,audio recording,surfing etc..Movie Studio runs fine right now but I definitely want to go with Vegas 8 at some point,for features like bezier masking and unlimited tracks.Eventually my current setup will be stripped down for audio only applications.Any suggestions?

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Chienworks wrote on 11/23/2007, 7:10 PM
As i type, on my other desk is an 866MHz P3 system, 512MB RAM, scummy 8MB video card (not that it matters at all) running Vegas Pro 8.0a under Windows XP. Not a hitch, it's doing everything just fine. Slow, yes, but running fine. There's also a couple browser windows open, Word, Explorer, and a few other utilities running.

Vegas is amazing in that it runs on very antiquated hardware.
Stevebol wrote on 11/23/2007, 7:50 PM
Solved! I'll stick with Toshiba.It has been good to me so far.One more question.Since I'm getting low on memory can I simply send big programs-files to run from an external hard drive?
Chienworks wrote on 11/23/2007, 8:08 PM
OK, i apologize in advance if this is insulting, but i just have to ask ... you do know that memory and hard drive space aren't the same thing, right? They have no relationship to each other. So, using an external hard drive vs. the internal hard drive will have no effect on memory usage.

That being said, i'm going to assume you mean you're running low on hard drive space. Yes, you can install programs to an external drive and they'll run ok. It would probably be better though for you move some video or data files to the external drive instead and install Vegas on the internal drive. Vegas 8 Pro takes up way way less drive space than a single minute of DV video.
Stevebol wrote on 11/23/2007, 9:14 PM
No,it's not insulting at all.I meant hard drive space.I'm down to about 12 GB and I wanted to reserve that for audio apps,VSTs,etc....I am very new to video editing.
I looked into having my 40GB hard drive replaced with a bigger one but Best Buy charges a ton for it.I'm sure doing upgrades like that are a snap for many people but I would rather not attempt to do it on my own.
Thanks,
Steve
Chienworks wrote on 11/23/2007, 9:57 PM
40 GB is plenty for Windows and program files. I have probably 3 or 4 versions of almost every SONY Creative Software application installed, as well as a couple dozen other major applications and over a hundred minor ones. My Program Files directory is still only about 3GB. My Windows directory is about 2.8GB. It's data files that take up the space. Get those onto the external drive and you should find that you have lots of room to grown on the 40GB drive.