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!