video editing problem

[katieca]

i just got a new samsung cam....i bought pinnacle studio plus for a better program than windows movie maker... but its slow and choppy once i load it on and try to edit.....

what would need to buy so it captures better and doesnt lag when i edit?

 

[Mik3y]

what are the specs of your computer? what method are you using to capture from the camera?

 

[katieca]

AMD Athlon 1800+
768 ddr
80gb

She's using USB2.0

 

[mshan]

http://www.videoguys.com/system.htm

 

[katieca]

How does this configuration look:
Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450Watt SmartPower 2.0 ATX 12V V2.0 for AMD & Intel systems Power Supply - Retail
Model #: SONATA II

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Model #: LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultr

PNY VCQFX540-PCIE-PB-V Quadro FX540 128MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Model #: VCQFX540-PCIE-PB-V

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX - Retail
Model #: ADA3800BVBOX

mushkin eXtreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 500 (PC 4000) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model 991483 - Retail
Model #: 991483

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200S0 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: 6L200S0

Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2 - OEM
Model #: N09-01528

 

[mshan]

Pinnacle used to collaborate with ATI, so an ATI video card might be a nice match for your Pinnacle Studio program.

You can also get Avid Free DV:
http://www.avid.com/freedv/index.asp

 

[sonoma1993]

when video editing, have at least 2 hard drives. one for windows and all the programs, then another one for the video files. this way, you wont drop frames and audio for stuff that accessing the main drive. if you want get a 3rd drive. when you goto render your movie into a dvd or somethen, you can save it to that drive. This will really speed the render the process. You have the one drive just reading and feeding the other drive. What version of pinnalce studio are you using?

 

[bendixG15]

Fancy video card not required..its all in the cpu, memory and double drives.

 

[thegorx]

I wouldn't build around pinnalce
go to the pinnalce website forums and check out some users

I got pinnalce a few years ago while the software was neat they had about 100 patches per year and never got all the bugs worked out on the version I had.


as far as hardware goes one thing people don't think about is have at least two hard drives - one to read and one to write.

 

[thecolorifix]

one problem I had with Adobe Premiere was the editing would be super choppy if the camera was still plugged in (mine was firewire), don't know why, but it was fine once I unplugged it