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Topic: What *am* I doing wrong with my digital editing?
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Jake Stallion
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posted 03-25-2000 08:12 PM
Hey, everyone!
I have a pII 400 with 64 megs of RAM and an Iomega Buz capture card (don't laugh!) with Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop, as well as a 4 gig hard drive. According to everything I read online, this seems like a pretty good setup... But for some reason I'm having lots of problems. My computer goes extremely slooooooow and locks up, all the time when I'm dealing with video. Can anyone tell me what kind of options I should modify, or what I should purchase to help out my situation? I'm not really a computer genius, but I know enough about them to get around... I'm just overwhelmed. Please try to keep it under a hundred dollars... If I'm screwed, tell me. I have a hi-8 Sony camcorder, without Firewire capabilities.
Thanks in advance for the help... |
Jake Stallion
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posted 03-25-2000 08:34 PM
Oh, yah, how do you export video to tape?
That option doesn't seem to work through Premiere. |
jabinya
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posted 03-25-2000 10:22 PM
Sounds like your hard drive is too slow to keep up with the amount of data input or your operating system is bogged down with startup programs. If you are using Windows click the start button, run, type msconfig, hit enter, check startup. Every program that you have there auto loads when windows starts up. Most are not critical. By clicking off the checkmark the program will not load at startup and give you more processing power.
!!Always leave the scan registry!! |
Prism
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posted 03-26-2000 01:18 AM
Sounds to me like you should get a bigger faster hard drive. Get something that does at least 7200rpm. They are surprisingly cheap. I've seen 20.4 gig drives (7200rpm even) going for under $160.Isaiah |
MarcArts
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posted 03-26-2000 02:11 PM
I tried it also but "msconfig" cannot be found?! |
Fink
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posted 03-26-2000 03:01 PM
You don't nescassarily need a 7200 rpm hard drive...but what does help is getting an ATA66 drive. These drives have comparible speeds to SCSI aapters. You'll need to buy the ATA66 controller card, but you can get one for anywhere from $30 - $150...I just bought a FAST TRAK66 card for $90 and then 2 Western Digital Caviar 30.7 gig hard drives for $195 each...prices are reasonable and should up your performance... Hope this gives some info!Fink |
Tn
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posted 03-27-2000 04:21 PM
You may need more RAM, 64 is great for running Windows and most apps. When doing heavy work like video editing 128 will help a lot.msconfig is only in Win98 and possibly Win2K. I'm unsure about Win2K, but it's a pretty nifty feature and I don't see why they wouldn't put it in. UDMA 66 will not help much for video capturing. The RPMs matters a lot more because 66 Mb/s is only a burst transfer speed. If you were to copy a movie between two UDMA 66 hard drives, the 66 will speed things up quite a bit. Since the video capturing needs to be a sustained rate though, the RPMs have a greater impact. Although most 7200 RPM hard drives are UDMA 66, not all UDMA 66 are 7200 RPM. Since you want to keep it under a hundred I would suggest getting IBMs 9.1 GB, UDMA 66, 7200 RPM, 2MB buffer hard drive. I got mine around $100 but that was months ago, so prices may have dropped since then(or size may have increased). |
Suspiria
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posted 03-27-2000 04:38 PM
I would consider 128 megs of RAM. I have close to the same PC as you. I have a 5400 RPM hardrive and it works fine for capturing video (believe it or not). I rarely get dropped frames and my machine is not slow. I think this is because I have 128 megs of RAM. |
colddish
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posted 03-27-2000 04:56 PM
Your problem is that you don't have enough ram in your machine...I currently run Adobe 4.2.2 on a P2 350 with 384 meg of PC-100 SDRAM, Adobe runs like an Avid with my set up. get more memory because to much is never enough. Maybe even consider getting a faster capture card (Miro) or Targa. |
