Vegas movie studio 8 requirements

[Jake Ironshirt]

Vegas movie studio 8 recommends a 2.8 GHz processor for HDV. I'm looking at a machine that has a quad core but that processor speed is 2.4 GHz. Should I be going after a faster processor instead of a quad core to make it work?
Thanks

[bluegrass]

Vegas movie studio 8 recommends a 2.8 GHz processor for HDV. I'm looking at a machine that has a quad core but that processor speed is 2.4 GHz. Should I be going after a faster processor instead of a quad core to make it work?
Thanks

You know what? That's a good question. My gut tells me to go with the quad 2.4 but you might ask Vegas support whether that product takes advantage of multicore processors or not. I'm not sure if it is apps that need to be written in such a way as to take advantage of multicore processors or whether the OS is capabable of divying up the load across the processors.

[Worley]

I think the system specs are probably referring to the speed of a P4. You can't compare a modern multi-core CPU with an old single core.

Even one core of a core2duo at 2.4 is going to be way faster than a plain old single core P4.

[HD4me]

Don't worry, a 2.4ghz Conroe architecture is like a 5ghz P4 CPU, or like a 3+ghz AMD (not even considering the fact that most newer multimedia editing programs uses multicores when compressing, rendering, etc. video). 99% of the time, the CPU rating is referring to the old [horrible] netburst architecture of the old P4 processors from Intel (i.e.-when AMD was winning by leaps and bounds because Intel had gotten lazy).

Now Intel is at the top again, finally realizing they needed to step it up. AMD isn't sitting on their hands, however, and are churning out new technology left and right.

Now only if the ATI side of AMD could pick up their pace and catch back up to Nvidia so we'd have better prices on GPUs. :)

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

The 2.4 Ghz requirement is meant for the P4 old CPUs. Even if you get a 1.6 Ghz *modern* CPU is going to be faster than the 2.4 Ghz P4. So, don't take that "2.4" requirement at face value, but on year value. In other words, anything that was released in the last 2-3 years as "good, fast cpu", it will be enough for Vegas.

I will only want to make sure you get at least 2 GB of RAM. Enough RAM is even more important on Vegas than cpu speed.

[Captainobvious]

My computer uses a dual core AMD Turion 64 x2 at 1.6 GHz and it runs very well, so you should have absolutely no problems there.

[Numbox]

What about HDD's, how much are they slowing me down? I'm a proud Quad owner :hv20-smilie84:, and even though i'm noticing huge improvement in render speeds, i'm still not satisfied with real time preview. I have an ATI HD2600XT card, which has all sorts of HD stuff built into it's hardware, and it's supposed to be the best card for HD material, but i still have to use preview or draft mode, at quarter size. I have two SATA2 drives and one IDE drive, but it's the same on all three drives. I'd hate having to buy a Raptor, cause i've managed to ruin every WD HDD i ever had. No more soup for WD :hv20-smilie24:

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Just read here: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/07/06/sony-vegas-requirements/

[tcindie]

I'd guess the most important line there is this one:
"In the Settings/Video preference panel, make sure the “dynamic RAM” is set to 512 MBs. On the same panel, use as many “threads” as the number of your CPUs/cores/hyperthreads."