I'm not newbie to video editing. I've done it for a few years using my school's equipment. (more specifically, Vegas on a Pentium 4)
I'm starting to do AMVs though. My home PC is an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 2.1 ghz, 1 gig of RAM, and an ATI Radeon x800 GTO graphics card with 256 mb memory. My OS is Win2k Pro, all updated, and a fairly fast hard drive. I'm still living at home, and I received some video editing software as a gift about a week ago.
For a while now I've been looking at Nova Video Explosion Deluxe, since it seems to be a straight clone of Vegas, which I already know how to use. But the software I recieved as a gift was Magix Movie Studio 10. (I think that's the name of it...not at home at the moment to check)
For the most part, it works fine. The only beef I have with it is the lag this software has. As you all know, in AMV editing, you use a lot of very short duration clips right after one another. Whenever I play my project, it always lags and skips whenever it hits these clusters of small clips, or whenever it has to load a transition.
I've tried all the different display and playback settings I can to speed it up, but to no effect. Magix has a little CPU monitor at the bottom of the screen, and I've noticed that it peaks to 100% CPU usage whenever it tries to play a new clip in the timeline, or it is transitioning between clips.
So I've come to the conclusion that my processor is too slow. A defrag did not help. It could also be that this software just lags as a given. Anyone have any experience with Magix? Or should I try and get a hold of a new processor, possibly a Pentium or Athlon 64 with more ghz?
(I also play a fair amount of games, which is why I have an AMD at the moment)



