Multi tasking

SPJ29 · Post by **SPJ29** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:47 pm

When I am rendering my finished video in VS9 can I still use my computer for other taks e.g.. surfing the net etc..

PC Specificstions :

Pentium 4 - 2Ghz
512mb RAM
128mb AGP Video Card
160GB HD space

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:08 pm

I really wouldn't - I never do.

All video work is pretty resource intensive particularly rendering and disc burning and trying to do anything else will at best slow down the whole process but is also very likely to introduce errors to your video.

Whenever I am rendering or burning I switch to my second (older) PC and come here and answer a question or two.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:34 pm

You would be far better off doing this:
Creating a Video Editing Profile

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:18 pm

I wouldn't worry about it that much. Rendering is just "number crunching", and you shouldn't get any errors unless something goes wrong. If something does go wrong, you'll know it. You will get a crash or freeze. It's very unlikely that you will get subtle degraded video from something like this.

The only time I'm really concerned about multitasking is during real-time analog capture. If the CPU is off doing something else as the video keeps streaming-in, you can get dropped frames, video corruption and lots of big problems! In that case, a special video profile is helpful because no matter what you are doing, Windows is always multitasking stuff in the background and you want to minimize that stuff as much as possible.

I don't like to touch the computer during burning either, but this is probably just paranoia from the early days of CD burning. Modern burners have "buffer underrun" protection, and there shouldn't be a problem if burning gets interrupted.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:31 pm