additional memory for vs10

[jkane6]

Hello,

i currently have 1 gig of memory on my machine, ddr3200, ic7 motherboard,3.2 prescott, sata drives, with raid, my question is while editing it there any advantage to purchasing more memory, i usually edit 2 hours of avi to 1 dvd. i have vs9, does vs10 take advantage of additional memory, or is additional memory a waste of money?

on a different note, while ripping to dvd, i noticed that my cpu utilization is only about 60 percent, on the real and the logical cpus, does vs10 increase the cpu utilization?

regards,

Jeff

[maddrummer3301]

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[daniel]

There is only a slight return in performance of VS beyond 1GB RAM, if like recommended and sensible you use it without other unnecessary software running on the same machine.
Going from 512 to 1024 is much more important.

While performing a rip from or a write to a disk or DVD your whole process will be limited by the slowest drive's I/Os.
Your SATA disk should not be a problem, but reading/writing to a DVD would slow the system enough that your processor is no more used at 100%. 60% on a 3.2 CPU sounds normal.

[jkane6]

Daniel

Thanks for the ans, my slowest drive would be my raid 0, 78 megs/per/second, my read drives are ab out 53, they contain the avi files, while editing, i not quite sure where vs9 makes it workspace, temp files for editing prior to rip. so after i get the file ready, for final output, the (ie share), make a few menus, and then start the burn process, this process is two tasks, 1) convert the file to a format for a dvd and 2) write the dvd. ok granted the dvd write is limited by the speed of the dvd drive, but why doesn't step one, consume all cpu, surely both my read and write drives are fast enough, which leaves the ripping function (conversion to mpeg2) it should consume the entire cpu, (99.0 to 100 percent) usually when this low cpu utilization occurs, it is because the process is being preempted by a higher priority process, (i check and there isn't), the task manager shows idle for the remaining percentage, or the input or output side is preempting because of io, which at a avg of over 50 MBps, i would think not. as far as the memory question, i sure would like vs to use all the memory installed instead of using the harddrive for its housekeeping procedures (move harddrive related tasks to the memory if memory is aviable) anyway thanks

regards

[daniel]

Daniel

i not quite sure where vs9 makes it workspace, temp files for editing prior to rip.

That would be in the place specified under File | Preferences...


Since you apparently mean rendering when you write ripping, you can forget what I said. The DVD is not yet accessed at that moment.

I'm wondering (I'm an AMD person) if you could have a dual core processor where the reported % is just showing that VS9 is not using core 2? Someone knows that?

Anyway your memory is not what would help you. 2Gb instead of 1 is only dramatic when several programs are running concurrently.
You would be able to time a small improvement but not feel it.
Videostudio is not managing huge volumes of data at a given time.