Help! regarding editing T2i video

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malidishbunty

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Hi everyone, I am making a movie with my t2i with kit (18-55) and a 50 f1.8 lens. I have a pentium dual core e5800 3.2ghz with 4gb ram and NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS with 500gb hard-disk for my hd video editing. Kindly help me regarding editing, suggest any other hardware need for hd dslr video editing. My movie is about 135 mins long and I am getting problem while editing. I am using adobe after effects and premier pro cs5.5. Its not giving me real time playback and my system hangs a lot. I used adobe a lot so I want to work with adobe only. Also I am at middle of a big comrcial project so plz help... Thanx
 
With that graphics card, I guess you don't have CUDA acceleration in premiere. Also, if you're round-tripping from PP to AE and back using dynamic link, PP will slow quite a bit: PP has a fast engine, AE has a versatile engine, round-tripping gives you great flexibility, but I'd avoid it until you have your edit locked down. That is: edit first in PP, when that is done, you can start bringing clips to AE and back to add effects, color correction, etc. After that, you can do some minor adjustments in PP, but it will feel awfully slow (even if you upgrade your graphics card and use CUDA acceleration in PP).
 
Definitely need more RAM! At least 8 GB would help, 16 GB is a good level.

We can talk about lots of tweaks, but it sounds like you might be looking for a new computer? You can find an i3 laptop for $350, i5 for $450.

But you would be better off with a real editing desktop. There have been Dell i7 3770K CPu boxes with 4 GB of RAM starting at $668, less a $100 visa, $568 net. That is a good box to add a video card, RAM, etc. to, as that is about the cost of the CPU & OS and a basic case.

I added 24 GB of RAM to my i7 for $180. (3x8GB) Also added 2, 2 TB Segatea Barracuda in RAID 0 for $200. Add in a good Nvidia video card for $100 to $230, mayber a power supply upgrade. That is a great box for $1,000

Check Techbargains.com

You really want an i7 for Hyperthreading for Adobe.

Good luck!
Michael
 
It looks like the Nvidia card has 8 CUDA cores. That is not a lot, but it is something.

If it has 1 GB of RAM, you can use a hack to enable the CUDA cores for GPU acceleration. Details here:

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm


That will also provide a guide to shopping for video cards on this or another machine.

Basically, a low end card will get you quite a bit of acceleration, with diminishing returns as you get toward the GTX 470, 570, 670, and 680 range. But a reasonable card will have around 400 CUDA cores - basically 400 parallel GPU processors to speed up some tasks.
 
you create low-res proxies of your footage (downscale and reencode them), edit using these lighter files, then relink your project to use the full-res originals instead of the proxies, before rendering
 
will it loose the quality ? My final result will projected through 35mm film and blu-ray disks in theaters... I am thinking about a i3 or i5 but i am bit confuse about the graphic cards motherboard and ram that how much i have to purchase...
 
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