HD footage is a drain on your pc..editing package?

[garjobo]

Keeping it short, simple and too the point. Hoping for a home run on the feedback.

I have about 5 hours worth of HD footage - shot by my panasonic camcorder in the 1080x50frames..although some of it shot slightly lesser quality as well.

When i last uploaded to my c: drive all my footage ( in order to then bring into Videostudio to edit etc ) the HD footage clearly was too...heavy...for want of a better expression...as it filled up my 600 storage harddrive...What I'm asking is...For HD footage...any methods / help regarding getting the footage into the editing package...my PC is ok, Quadcore etc..i suspect can just able do the job...but it's the fact I have all this footage on SD cards and keen to edit it...like in the good ole' days with mini DV..so easy...and yet..one thing after another...Really seems you need an Apple pc etc to edit anything HD.

Any advice more than welcome. Please. thanks
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[teknisyan]

Processing HD movie will surely put a lot of burden on your PC, have you tried using VideoStudio? Since VideoStudio uses smartproxy that help lessen that burden.

The main purpose of the Smart Proxy feature is to have a more fluid editing experience when working with large, high resolution video files.

When you edit and preview your project, proxy files will be used as substitutes for their large video source counterparts. This feature works especially for handling video footage shot in HD, which can take up a lot of your computer’s resources to process. Whereas when you render a video file, the original video source files will be used.

Proxy files are lower resolution working copies of video files. They are reduced in resolution or compression bit rate -- to speed up editing of high definition files such as HDV and AVCHD. Proxy files are source-dependent rather than project-dependent. In other words, proxy files can be shared among different projects. Smart Proxy can also be used with other video file formats and is not limited to HD files.

You can download the trial of VS X5 at http://pnoy.me/coreltrials