Is a pentium 4, 3 Ghz processor, 64 Gb HD, 1 Gb RAM enough
Is a pentium 4, 3 Ghz processor, 64 Gb HD, 1 Gb RAM enough
for MF 5.6 to edit AVCHD (m2ts) files?
You may need more disk space. Your AVCHD files are going to be in the ballpark of 10GB per hour. You may need space for an original-unedited copy, plus an edited copy. And, Movie Factory seems to need about twice the DVD space to author & burn a DVD (about 9GB if you're making a 4.37 GB single-layer DVD).
Some more RAM may help to speed things up. Windows uses the hard drive when you run out of physical RAM. So, too-little RAM isn't usually a problem except that swaping to the hard drive can slow things down.
Some more RAM may help to speed things up. Windows uses the hard drive when you run out of physical RAM. So, too-little RAM isn't usually a problem except that swaping to the hard drive can slow things down.
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so that we can then view your system specifications.
Regarding RAM - this depends upon the operating system you are using.
If you have Windows XP then 1GB RAM should be OK.
With Vista you need more RAM than an equivalent computer running XP.
When I bought a Vista Home Edition laptop with 1GB RAM I noticed it was using some 500-600 MB of RAM just by starting the thing up from cold.
I upgraded to the maximum my laptop would allow 2GB and now after a cold start it uses some 700 MB of RAM and quickly goes over the 1GB mark when running an application. RAM is reasonable cheap now and the best place to get it is by searching the internet and purchasing on-line.
Hard drives are also a lot cheaper nowadays, I bought an external 1 Terabyte Hard Drive recently for less than ¢G200 GBP. Internal hard drives are cheaper than external hard drives and also in my opinion more robust and reliable (No more room to fit more internal drives - 3 there already!)
DV Video eats 13 GB of hard drive space per hour - and that is only the source files, add to that room for editing, conversion to MPEG2 to create the DVD, plus the DVD if like me you choose to burn to a hard drive folder first. Basically you can get by with 64GB but when you start installing other stuff such as Microsoft Office, your photographs, music and so on you will quickly use up that 64GB.
so that we can then view your system specifications.Regarding RAM - this depends upon the operating system you are using.
If you have Windows XP then 1GB RAM should be OK.
With Vista you need more RAM than an equivalent computer running XP.
When I bought a Vista Home Edition laptop with 1GB RAM I noticed it was using some 500-600 MB of RAM just by starting the thing up from cold.
I upgraded to the maximum my laptop would allow 2GB and now after a cold start it uses some 700 MB of RAM and quickly goes over the 1GB mark when running an application. RAM is reasonable cheap now and the best place to get it is by searching the internet and purchasing on-line.
Hard drives are also a lot cheaper nowadays, I bought an external 1 Terabyte Hard Drive recently for less than ¢G200 GBP. Internal hard drives are cheaper than external hard drives and also in my opinion more robust and reliable (No more room to fit more internal drives - 3 there already!)
DV Video eats 13 GB of hard drive space per hour - and that is only the source files, add to that room for editing, conversion to MPEG2 to create the DVD, plus the DVD if like me you choose to burn to a hard drive folder first. Basically you can get by with 64GB but when you start installing other stuff such as Microsoft Office, your photographs, music and so on you will quickly use up that 64GB.