Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/04/07 00:40

<bendespain@gmail.com> wrote ...
>I am trying to figure out a pretty frustrating problem I have with
> editing HD video. I have a Canon HV-10 which uses HDV and I'm tryin
> to get some video I've taken onto my computer.
>
> Here's a little background on my system.
>
> OS: Vista Ultimate
> Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
> RAM: 2Gigs in Dual Mode
> HD: 300 Gig 7200 SATA
> Video: Nvidia GeForce 8600GT (256 GDDR3)
>
> I've tried using most of the video editing software titles and I seem
> to get the same problem: really jumpy video
>
> Here are the titles I've tried:
>
> Adobe Premier Pro CS3 (I did this a while ago, so I'm not totally
> confident it was just as jumpy as others)
> Windows Movie Maker (Vista Edition)
> Ulead
> Pinnacle
> Vegas 8
>
> So, I'm thinking the reason it's so poor is because of my slower CPU,
> can anyone verify this as a 'most likely' hypothesis? Or, does anyone
> know of any other possible reasons for my computer poor handling of
> HDV video?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Despain (Aspiring HD videographer, of my kids ;)

You have just the one hard drive?
You have the video AND the operating system and programs
etc, etc. all on the same hard drive? (Partitioning doesn't count)

My first thought would be to get your video onto its own
dedicated hard drive. Drives are dirt-cheap and easy to
install. No excuse for not giving your video its own home.

Assuming you have reasonably optimized the system by
not running lots of junk in the background. Note that
lots of the eye-candy features of Vista count as useless
junk that just chew up precious CPU cycles with no real
benefit.

Assuming you also know that the Intel Core 2 Duo and
Quad CPUs beat the sox off anything from AMD.

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