Buying a New PC

Stratocastermagic · Post by **Stratocastermagic** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:45 am

We are looking at buying a new PC for family use and I'm wondering what people would recommend as a decent spec for running VideoStudio.
I'm using VS 9 and I gather from this forum that it will not run under Vista - does anyone have any thoughts about that?

Post by **jparnold** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:55 am

Ensure the PC has at least 512MB of memory (ram) - more is even better.
Ensure that the hard drive is at least ATA100 with a speed of 7200rpm - I think that all current PCs would have this in fact use SATA drives. Video capture works better if you have TWO hard disks and that you capture to the hard disk which does not contain the operating system.
My PC is 4 years old with a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor which is quite good - current PC's will have faster processors. The speed of the processor mainly affects how fast you can render a video project. This usually doesn't worry me as I render overnight when I am asleep.

roy wood · Post by **roy wood** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:46 am

Agree with everything in Johns reply in addition make sure you have a seperate 'Graphics Card' with it's own Memory 32Mb+ other wise the graphics will be useing your RAM.

I'm using VS 9 and I gather from this forum that it will not run under Vista - does anyone have any thoughts about that?

Correct even VS10 had to be patched. Also bear in mind that it will be some time before 'Vista' will be completely compatible with the majority of Hard & Software available and be totally reliable. So you can either wait for the new VS11 expected daily or buy a cheap copy of XP off Ebay and run a dual boot system for a while.

Stratocastermagic · Post by **Stratocastermagic** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:59 pm

Thanks for responses.
I've been looking at the thread on VS 11 (http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 2a8ff950af), so maybe that's the way to go: upgrade to VS 11 (when it's available) and buy a Vista PC that meets its system requirements.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:17 pm

Actually running VISTA (if that's the OS) they recommend having about 2 gigs of memory for video editing. Probably to make use of the new Vista OS, it's code and new advanced graphics.

I would make the computer fairly powerful so it will last at least 6 months

going my the way computers progress. Or make sure you can upgrade it later.

mi2nc · Post by **mi2nc** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:46 pm

I just bought a new Dell for Around $1500 bought it with 2G ram, and 350G hd. 1g video ram. Rendered a 30 minute movie the other day in about 13 minutes. I hope this new confuser with work for me for about 5 years. Which is the age of the one this replaced. And Yes I am bragging here.

MrA · Post by **MrA** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:25 pm

see tag line?

A little over kill for vs, but, it does help. I use Media Studio Pro as well and that is were this hardware really shines...