Best Hardware Configuration for Vegas?

RobertE said:
I love the idea of 'fanless'. This ASUS A8N-SLI board, how is it cooled? Not that it really matters, just curious?



Jarred, you said 'last'. What do you have now if you don't mind me asking?
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its a heatpipe :) very cool.


right now im using a pre-release board i cant talk about. I think the A8N though is the king board out there right now.
 
I think that installing more than a single hard drive should improve your processing efficiency. For example, if you organize your source material mostly on one of the drives and treat the other one as the destination for you outputs, each drive will work much more efficiently: more bandwidth, less seeking. The faster your CPU the more you will notice the difference.
 
I built my system 2 years ago now and it would be considered outdated for HD, I've been thinking about upgrading but don't really see a point until I upgrade to one of the new cameras. I'm running 2.8ghz HT, 1gb ram, 500gb hd's, which works great for dv. I was reading though about how there going to be releasing the quad core chip next year, and they said they could essentially fit in like 56processors, just another reason for me to hold off on my computer upgrade also by then windows vista will be out and vegas might be a 64bit program

check it out here
http://news.com.com/Intel+shows+off+its+quad+core/2100-1006_3-6038148.html
 
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Everyone keeps saying they have at least 200gb of hard disk, but would 100gb be enough for editing with Vegas Movie Studio + DVD Platinum?
(I have what I thought was a pretty high end system until I started reading these boards.)
AMD Athalon XP 3000+ 2.1GH processor
1 gig RAM
100gb hard drive
Radeon 9600 graphics card
Is this anywhere near enough for editing video? If not, any (inexpensive) upgrade recommendations would be appreciated.
 
It just depend's on what kind of projects you do, if its working on short films than I'm sure that you'll find 100gb to be more than sufficient, when I was in filmschool 5 years ago they had 40gb hard drives for 20 students... so you'd get about 20gb each and then delete it when your done. Paper Edits were a Must before digitizing. Now though I work on different corporate projects as well as music videos and videography. sometimes at the same time so having a larger capacity hardrive is a must. your System is perfectly fine for editing.
 
Yes for shorts...100gb is plenty..even though I recommend that you run your system on a entirely different HD and not just a partition. This will you let your render times are to be much faster. I currently am running 2-80 IDE slaves, a 300gb SATA (partitioned at 150 each) and have a 80gb WD 10000rpm SATA Raptor (partitioned at 12g and 61gb) for my System drive. Total 534gb avail. I found my Raptor doubled my speed over my IDE PATA drives because of the rpm.
 
smithy,

So, do you use the 300GB SATA for media 'storage'? And if so, what is the reason that it's partitioned?

What about a RAID configuration? Does anyone do RAID 0 or 1?
 
RobertE said:
smithy,

So, do you use the 300GB SATA for media 'storage'? And if so, what is the reason that it's partitioned?

What about a RAID configuration? Does anyone do RAID 0 or 1?
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Because...cmon.. 300g..how much do your really need? I have my setup as 150 for video data and 150 for audio...it is purely for storage. Besides if a partition gets corrupted then you can reformat that partition without affecting the rest of the hard drive. As for raid...overhyped crap..why would you want to do it? To make it one drive? Raid is not necessary. Just get speed...7200rpm is too slow to me if you want to render video. Get a WD 10000rpm rapter as your system drive and you will fly..
 
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What is the advantage to DDR2 memory? The AMDs don't support it--is the memory downgrade worth the extra processor speed of the AMD?
 
Thanks. That makes sense. I didn't know that you could reformat a partition without affecting the other. I thought that a RAID 1 would provide 'redundancy' because two 150GB drives would be mirrored then? I guess if you 'back up', you don't need the redundancy.

Really good idea on the 10000rpm raptor for the system drive. Thanks.
 
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