New computer components for Pro X2

derekhughes · Post by **derekhughes** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:14 pm

Hello all.
I have bought a Canon HF100 (great camera!!) & need to build a new machine to cope with the HD editing. I am looking at the Gigabyte GA-MA770 motherboard with an AMD 5000+ processor. Does anyone have experience (good or bad!) with this motherboard & this(or similar) processor for HD editing?
(I need a motherboard with Texas 1394 chip as I also do audio multi track recording)

Thanks Derek

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:05 pm

That system should be fine. I wouldn't worry too much about the hardware. A faster, more powerful, system will render faster. But, video editing is just "number crunching", and since you're not working in real-time (except for monitoring), speed is not necessary.

The most important thing is that the software works with your particular variation of AVCHD files.

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:07 pm

Hi Derek,

to be honest I don't think the AMD 5000+ is really up to it. It will probably work, but slowly. For AVCHD editing, you really need a fast quad core cpu. Fry's just had a great offer on a refurbished HP with an intel Q6600, 4GB or RAM and a 640GB hard drive all for $449. That would have fit the bill nicely, but the offer has passed.

Since the Q6600 is being replaced by later cpu's, there may be more offers coming up though.

We are waiting for a VS patch for the Canon AVCHD camcorders, since there are editing issues.....

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:00 pm

I can only endorse 2Dogs comments strongly -- both regarding the advisability of getting as powerful a computer as possible to edit AVCHD, and about the difficulties of editing AVCHD even with such a computer. You would need to find a table of equivalence to work out whether the AMD 5000+ is vaguely equivalent to a decent Core 2 Duo Intel, which is the minimum required for editing AVCHD. Though it may work using Video Studio's SmartProxy feature.

derekhughes · Post by **derekhughes** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:52 am

Thanks for your input - I obviously underestimated the computing needs of AVCHD.
Maybe I would be better approaching it from the other end - would any of you who edit AVCHD successfully on Pro X2 be willing to share your machine specs?

Thanks
Derek

Ken Berry wrote:I can only endorse 2Dogs comments strongly -- both regarding the advisability of getting as powerful a computer as possible to edit AVCHD, and about the difficulties of editing AVCHD even with such a computer. You would need to find a table of equivalence to work out whether the AMD 5000+ is vaguely equivalent to a decent Core 2 Duo Intel, which is the minimum required for editing AVCHD. Though it may work using Video Studio's SmartProxy feature.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:45 am

See my System button below...