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Postby Kashinoda » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:10 am

Dont flame me, i bloody searched ages to find any similar topics and had no luck lol.

Any how, my PC good enough to edit vids etc?(adobe prem 6.5)

AMD Athlon 1GZ
480MB RAM
32MB GFX CARD
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Thanks in advance (w8s for flame)
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:16 am

U can edit using any system you want, it's just how long it will take you to perform certain actions.
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Postby FurryCurry » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:17 am

Sure it is, just make sure you have plenty of disk space available.
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Postby Kashinoda » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:17 am

Well yeah I used to use 330MHZ 32 RAM to do videos,(omg too slow) just wonderin if this is fast-ish and wont encounter many errors (win xp pro)
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:21 am

yeah I not only edit but encode shit all the time and I'm on athlon 1ghz 384 ram and a 16 mb video card
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Postby FurryCurry » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:29 am

I doubt it will feel extremely zoomy, but it shouldn't try your patience too much.

Don't worry yourself about how much ram you use for graphics. As long as you have enough to display 32 bit 2d graphics at the resolution you wish to use (within reason, of course, 1600x1200 should be no problem) more graphics memory won't speed anything up, unlike 3d gaming applications.

It sounds like you have 512 megs of ram, and are using 32 of it for shared graphics memory. If you run a fairly normal screen resolution like 1024x768, or 1280x960, you might get a tiny boost by cutting back the memory assigned to display use to 16mb. That should free up those extra 16 megs for Premiere to hog. ^^;

No big deal, though.
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Postby Kashinoda » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:34 am

FurryCurry wrote:It sounds like you have 512 megs of ram, and are using 32 of it for shared graphics memory. If you run a fairly normal screen resolution like 1024x768, or 1280x960, you might get a tiny boost by cutting back the memory assigned to display use to 16mb. That should free up those extra 16 megs for Premiere to hog. ^^;

No big deal, though.


Yeah I alredy cut it back from 64 and I dont play any games, thanks for the tip.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:22 am

I use 1280x1024, have 32MB of onboard video memory, and have 512MB of RAM on an Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz, running at 1.4GHz) so if I can edit on this, you should be able to edit on your system. Hell, Premiere was really fooking slow on my 450MHz AMD K6-2 with 256MB of PC133 RAM. :P
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Postby Gottaname » Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:29 am

Well, if you want something cheap but lightning fast... You can get something like mine, a Intel Celeron 1.7GHZ, 256MB RAM, Geforce 4 128MB and a 120GB hard drive...
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Sun Jan 05, 2003 7:47 am

All of my videos to date have been made on a machine with a Duron 800, if that's any consolation.
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Postby jbone » Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:33 am

FurryCurry wrote:I doubt it will feel extremely zoomy, but it shouldn't try your patience too much.

Dude, I have a P3-733 with 448MB RAM, and it's plenty speedy for editing. :P

People put too much faith in the Uberness of the latest high-end processors... with each newly-released processor, there's less and less difference in speed between it and the previously-released one.
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Postby Dannywilson » Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:29 pm

I just know I can encode xvid 720x480 100% quality, at 36 fps. Dual processors, unlike singles, make a damn difference... plus your ram and pagefile also make all the world.
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Postby klinky » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:13 pm

Dannywilson wrote:I just know I can encode xvid 720x480 100% quality, at 36 fps. Dual processors, unlike singles, make a damn difference... plus your ram and pagefile also make all the world.


I don't know man...

VirtualDub is not SMP aware and the idea of actually doing SMP while encoding a intraframe compression technique just doesn't compute.

Also wouldn't singles be doubles, since it's plural. Singles <--- multiple singles... You have two singles in your computer.

Anyways... I am becoming worse then jbone.


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Postby Corran » Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:29 am

Kashinoda, the best way to know if you have a good machine to edit with is to test it out yourself. Run it through some tests, convert and edit a short clip or something. As for choosing a processor I base my decision on MaximumPC's benchmarks. Basically the Athlon kicks Intels #@& when it come to editing with Adobe Premiere because the code isn't optimized for Pentiums not to mention there cheaper. Anyways you have a decent computer and should be able to edit and create a good video with what you have. :wink:
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Postby klinky » Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:36 am

The code in Premiere isn't optimized worth shitzle. >_<

I hate j00 Premiere.


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