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jfish1936
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:40 am    Post subject: Video Editing - what do I need? Reply with quote
1/. I own a Sony DVD camera with USB connection and "Picture Package" software; 2g Celeron with 160 GB HDD and 512 RAM, Win XP.
2/. I use Windows Movie Maker to make .wmv files.
3/. It's slow, and often locks up.
4/.(a) What hardware specs should I buy?
(b) What software?

Scottie
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Joined: 07 Jun 2008
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Greetings,

Solution:
To stop Windows movie maker from locking up i suggest all you do is buy 1 more stick of ram so go from 512 to 1g+ and you will no longer experiance problems.

Price: $40

alternatively i suggest you use better movie editing software assuming editing is what you want to do, i suggest Adobe After Effects or Sony Vegas Pro, If you whant to take option 2 it will cost more in upgrades the minimal specs for After effects is hight and Vegas is not much better.

# intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor
# 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD

Keep in mind that is industry standard software for editing movies. (easily add light saber effects and many cool things.)


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Scott
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jfish1936
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scottie, I upgraded the computer!
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4
4 Gb RAM
Vista 64
500 G HDD plus 500 external
Windows rating 5.0

Made a huge difference!

Might go get the Sony software now
Evad
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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
With the PC upgrade I will add a few suggestions..

Firstly you should start using something a little better for your video editing - download the Adobe Premier trial and see if you like it.

Also I would get a firewire card (or a motherboard with firewire built in) and pick up a firewire cable so that you can transfer better quality and faster.

My suggestions aren't all that expensive, should only cost you around $80.
jfish1936
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks, Evad, will try the trial software.
Unfortunately, though the computer has Firewire, the Sony Handycam doesn't. which surprised me!
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