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| 158547 | 2003-07-09 12:37:00 | What sort of spec's should a computer have to be suitable for video editing. Any advice would be appreciated | gerrypics (323) | ||
| 158548 | 2003-07-09 13:25:00 | look at "Game PCs" Most pc stores have a "Game PC" bundle if you get something like this you know its made for Graphics and for Processing power e.g http://www.tastech.co.nz/ they have a cool gamer PC are you thinking of upgrading your old PC? |
sc0ut (2899) | ||
| 158549 | 2003-07-10 00:24:00 | basicly you want the fastest PC you can aford :) the only other thing to consider is any capture cards and software. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 158550 | 2003-07-10 01:13:00 | you might look at getting firewire (IEEE-1395) this lets you plug your digital video camra into you PC and download the video for editing. after editing you can push the finished video back to the camra with ease. ulead video studio is a god program to look at for editing. as for the computer you need lots of ram and CPU power, the video card is NOT going to make any diffrance in the speed of editing or rendering of the video. good luck. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 158551 | 2003-07-10 01:31:00 | you need a big HDD the larger the better and something with lots of ram in it plus a cpu at least over 800 MHz in speed | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 158552 | 2003-07-10 02:42:00 | Depends, of course, on your budget to a large degree. But i have done a lot of complicated editing on a 800hz 128 ram 20g harddrive. If your doing digital i.e thru a firewire card (100$)its just a matter of keeping your captures down to manageable chunks of say around 15 minutes doing your editing and then reloading back to camera,until you have all your film back on tape ready to put on VHS or whatever. A bigger h/d just allows you to keep more stored on your computer. Alot of magazine articles about v/editing talk about needing massive amounts of h/d but when you capture digital as AVI files its only about 1gig per 10 minutes or so.Avi is near broadcast standard so there is no real point in capturing as uncompressed video. Also when editing use ctrl/alt/del to have only the minimum of programs running and every few hours defrag.Editing really spreads files all over the place. Having said that a dream set up would be of course the fastest, most ram equipped system you can afford. As far as software is concerned ,well windows comes with a very basic editing program (in ME and XP) that will do the job if maybe you just want to tidy up your holiday footage but for any real editing capabilities you need to look further. The best budget editing software (220$) i have used is by a large margin "Pure Motion: edit studio" .It is instinctive to use and can do effects and transitions that the others can't.People are really blown away by the results. http://www.puremotion.com/ Hope this helps Rick |
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