more ram for video editing??

[Smithyoffline]

hi all,

My current system consists of a 2.8C Ghz, with a 2 x 512 mb of pc3200 ram. I do a fair bit of video editing and would like to know whether I should get 2 more 512mb sticks for my system. My system can hold up to 4 gig of ram. I would just like to know whether it would make much difference. I use programs such as Adobe Premiere and I encode alot. Would I be better off in getting a second hard drive and raiding 2x western digital 120gig 7200rpm 8mb cache. What would the difference be between my setup now and having a setup with 2 gig of ram for video editing and raiding?

Thanks

 

[RanDum72]

I think a faster drive system (RAID 0) should be more helpful.

 

[oldfart]

I dont use Premiere, but the programs I do use, Pinnacle Studio and TMPGEnc don't even use the 1 G of ram I have. Do a <Ctrl Alt Del> during use and see how much ram you are using. I think you will see the same. For my use, doing DV capture and usually encoding to MPEG2 (DVD) or WMV, I dont have any hard drive bottleneck using a single HD. That may vary with your use. CPU speed is by far the biggest factor.

 

[Gagabiji]

Originally posted by: RanDum72
I think a faster drive system (RAID 0) should be more helpful.

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[s4man]

Hey,

Anything above 1 Gig of ram is a waste in my opinion....(professional FCP editor here by the way) When I ordered our new computers, I got my personal one with 3 Gigs of ram.....yep waste of money.....I took them out and tried it....no difference. You only notice once you drop below 1 gig.

Listen to the rest in getting those SATA drives. We use a raid 0 setup but something else, (but we need massive storage) drive for drive those Raptors will keep up with ours, but they dont have terabyte versions yet so 🙂

Make sure you have scratch disks set up to export your audio, then one for video....and then a system drive to handle your basic system tasks.
So drop a 36 gig system drive Raptor in there, and push the WD over to A/V dump....


As far as encoding goes......even we have problems with that with 30K setups....Render farms is the best answer! ALthough not pratical.

Good Luck......

 

[EXman]

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SCSI 😛 :beer: Do you have a dedicated hardware encoder?? If not that is your best bet! pricey but you asked for speed!