Will Vista 64 better than 32?

shakyhand · Post by **shakyhand** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:11 am

Hi all,

I have been using VS for over 2 months now and quite comfortable with editing now. However, the preview window is stuttering during editing on my laptop. The spec is as follow

Intel C2D P8600 2.4GHz (i guess it is 1033MHz bus)
3GB RAM DDR2, 256MB ATI HD4570
Vista Home Premium 32bit

My laptop was installed with Vista 64 originally, due to my old camera driver issue. However, since I'm doing more and more video editing nowadays, I'm thinking of re-installing Vista 64 and bumping up the RAM up possibly with DDR3.

I'm no techie, will my plan improve the stuttering preview window of VS X2? or I'm just wasting money with very little improvement?

Thanks

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:37 am

This response does not relate to 64 bit vs 32 bit Vista. But what kind of video are you trying to edit? High def, or standard def? If high def, what kind? I ask because that could be part of the answer to why you have a jittery screen...

shakyhand · Post by **shakyhand** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:36 am

I'm editing high definition clips from my Panasonic HDC-TM300 cam. I believe it is AVCHD (m2ts file)

Thanks

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:56 am

I suspected that might have been the case. AVCHD is the most demanding format there is of computer resources. I find that it even stutters on my Quad 6600, and people with more powerful Quads also report the same problem -- including IIRC some using 64 bit Vista. It is just the nature of the beast.

Essentially, you have two choices -- either do like I do and simply ignore the stutters. I find that I can still see enough to know everything I want is basically there the way I want it. And when I output it, it plays fine and smoothly.

Or you can use SmartRender... that generates standard def temp files of your AVCHD, you edit those, and they of course play smoothly. And when satisfied the edits are applied to the original AVCHD...

Accolades · Post by **Accolades** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:49 am

VS is a 32bit app - It will NEVER see more then 4GB ram (or 3.2 depending on who you talk to).

Maybe installing a SSD (Solid State HDD) may spped things up a little ?

Beter qulity video card with more onboard ram.