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I am wanting to do video editing on my computer (using adobe premiere) and I was wanting to upgrade my computer so that it would render and just run faster and smoother. My computer is a HP Pavilion Ze5300 Notebook and has a Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz 2.79 GHz, 448 MB of RAM. What upgarde options do I have? What will help it run faster and help with the video editing? Thanks Andrew
Addding more RAM 'might' help. There not much that can be done to speed up notebooks.
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Not much...
As HAM said, you can do a ram upgrade. It's your video card that will slow you down.I am not sure about Adobe, but many of the new video editors are now calling for DX9 compatible video cards. This is because the video cards are now taking on some of the rendering responsibilities.
I used to do some work with Adobe and I know how you feel.... the rendering seems to go on forever sometimes!
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In fact, I'll even take it a step further in stating that I no longer use my laptop for video editing.
I've been a laptop user for years and finaly had to switch back to a desktop because I got pretty serious about video editing.
Once you start getting into programs like Avid Liquid, Sony Vegas 6... you find that a laptop just doesn't cut it. You need big, fast drives, big display, proper mouse (jog shuttle even better). But most importantly, the system needs to be easily expandable.... working with one AVI file can easily fill up a 200 gig HDD.
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There's nothing I haven't able to assemble/render with my powerbook and an external drive, so... there you go.
That said, I usually edit on a PC with dual 19" monitors and gobs of HDD space.
In the end, you'd never know what was edited where or when.
What you need, if you're gonna use that coputer, is a firewire card for your PC slot, and some serious external storage. Don't use the USB2. Go Firewire.
That and some RAM will be plenty for a learner system. If you get serious about it, then build a purpose built tower.
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Keep in mind that external (USB and Firewire) drives are slower than internal drives.
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"Keep in mind that external (USB and Firewire) drives are slower than internal drives."
Yes, but Firewire is plenty fast enough to keep up with that systems rendering speed. The drive won't be the bottleneck...
The O.S. and editing software are running off the internal.
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Joe middle...
You missed the point... Yes you can use a laptop for video editing... he is already doing that (I've done it). But he wants to SPEED up rendering. Yes...USB, Firewire are usable but they slow things down even further.
And yes... firewire DOES create a bottle neck.... it's exactly why I moved back to a desk top. My projects were getting complicated enough so that rendering and burning through external devices was taking forever.
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Firewire is not the bottleneck. I can transfer a 7GB music video project to my internal storeage in under 2 minutes. My overlocked 3700+ certainly can't render the effects that fast.
It is standard to edit on firewire conneced external storage. Do you think editors have multiple TB of "internal" (IDE? Lets leave Eathernet out for a minute) storage? I don't, I don't know anyone that does, and I'm surrounded by graphic/video/audio profesionals in both my personal and work life.
If you like, I'll dig out an external drive (where else would I archive my MANY projects?), delete my render files in Premiere Pro, then copy it onto one of my internals, and re-render it from both drives.
Care to make any bets?
The last documentary I edited I was pulling from 2 different FULL 250gb Lacies (supplied by client), and saving the project to a third (provided by me/included in budget). How would you suggest I should have done this?
All OS/software/swap/pagefiles are on internl drives. Only the video audio files are on the ext. It sounds like you think it's ALL running on the external, in which case you'd be right, but that'd be crazy.
Firewire is different from USB2. I don't know anyone that uses that seriously for storage (card readers excluded).
To the originator of this thread-- it's better asked (and answered) in a true DV forum. I'm admittedly not the biggest techie, but I do this every day...
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"(where else would I archive my MANY projects?)"
By this I just mean-- I have multi TB of stuff... where would it go?
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"All OS/software/swap/pagefiles are on internl drives. Only the video audio files are on the ext. It sounds like you think it's ALL running on the external, in which case you'd be right, but that'd be crazy."
This is a given... no need to state it."Firewire is not the bottleneck. I can transfer a 7GB music video project to my internal storeage in under 2 minutes. My overlocked 3700+ certainly can't render the effects that fast."
You have to remember that you are not JUST moving files back and forth over firewire while rendering... your machine is doing a lot of things at the same time... dividing its bandwith up all over the place. Firewire (and USB2 for that matter) is MUCH slower as a result. Your machine has many more thing to worry about besides transferring data... so your 7gig/2min is not really that.
"It is standard to edit on firewire conneced external storage. Do you think editors have multiple TB of "internal" (IDE? Lets leave Eathernet out for a minute)"
Sorry, but this makes no sense at all. I agree, fire wire is the logical place to turn but only when one is running short on IDE (or sata) space. It's easier to plug in an external than it is to increase IDE/SATA space. Go to the AVID forums and talk to some of these guys, (tv broadcasters and such) some of them are running 6 or 7 sata drives... they turn to firewire only when they have to. To top it all off, do you REALLY think pro editors have "multiple TB" externals kicking around??? I don't think I have ever seen a multiple tera byte external.
"The last documentary I edited I was pulling from 2 different FULL 250gb Lacies (supplied by client), and saving the project to a third (provided by me/included in budget). How would you suggest I should have done this?"
250gig times 2 equals 500gig.... that number might scare the heck out of some one that didn't know any better.... but then I can tell you that in terms of an AVI....500gig is not very big.
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