I'm looking to get a new computer for video editing. What kind of processor will run the best with Vegas? AMD? Intel D? Celeron? Are there other options that are better? I just need advice on this one thing to help me finish my pc.
Pentium D or if you got the cash Pentium EE(dual core + Hyper Threading) Most importantly make sure you got at least 2 gig of ram, ram is cheap now days so dont be stingy this is whatll help
processor type and speed aren't the most important aspects of video editing. you do of course need a good fast one, but more importantly is ram, so get 1 gig MINIMUM, 2 gigs would be best, and make sure to get the fastest ram your mobo supports, with the fastest latency. Next important is a good fast hard drive. Most HDs now are 7200 RPM anyway, but make sure you get one with an 8MB buffer, and the faster the access time the better. If you can afford a 10k RPM drive, get it. You will see quite an improvement in the overall speed of your editing as far as rendering, processing, and storing goes.
best CPU for video editing isnt AMD or Intel or any other CPU youd get in a windows based PC. the best CPUs for video editing by far are the ones you get in a mac sorry to say it but its true. you just cant beat macs for video and music editing as theyre built for that purpose.
LOL, yeah...too bad that macs are overpriced, underpowered machines that aren't compatible with 95% of the software out there. It was true ten years ago that macs outperfromed PCs for audio and video editing, but not anymore. PCs are just as good...I edit audio with Pro Tools everyday. I am forced to use macs at the school I teach at, and I use PCs at home. PCs are just a good if not better than macs.
As far as setting up your hard drive, I would suggest you either: Have a separate HD for that purpose. Defrag any drive before dumping video content to it. If you cannot afford to have a separate hard drive for it, at least create it's own partition to keep large video files stored. This way, your system won't have to work with fragmented files. Say, for decoding and encoding video, I use both drives on this system. I defrag both drives, then dump the video into the Temp folder. I then encode the video to the other drives Temp folder. I delete the original content, then compress back to the other drive's second partition's Temp folder. When it comes to speed, you can also gain a little, but not much, having the drive on a separate IDE channel. If it's an SATA drive, you needn't worry, it's already on it's own channel. Min required specs for decent encoding time, agreed as posted. 2Ghz CPU, 1Gb RAM. (400FSB or better)
