Best Editing Machine?

strange m1nd · Oct 29, 2005

Hi.... I am going to be editing my movie soon...

I was wondering if there was a way you could tell which machine is better to use. I have two PCs, both of which are very similar, a Sony Vaio Desktop and a Hewlett Packard Media Center Edition... They are both very good. I have an external hard drive also. I was wondering what are the most important elements of the machine. Any help is much needed and appreciated. Thank you.

mdifilm · Oct 29, 2005

depending on the software, if you use premiere, HP would be better choice, a lot of people seems to have problem with the Son Vaio Desktop with Premiere

But both obviously would require good memory, nothing running on background, etc.

strange m1nd · Oct 29, 2005

well I'm pretty sure I'm using Vegas

Boz Uriel · Oct 29, 2005

the most important elements of the machine

Pure processing power. Find the machine that crunches the numbers the fastest.

Shaw · Oct 29, 2005

Lot's of RAM is nice too

strange m1nd · Oct 30, 2005

like 2.4 vs 2.7 ghz?

what do you mean punches the numbers...

I know what RAM is at least

Thanks everyone

ps- does anyone know an easy way to get rid of programs running the background?

Boz Uriel · Oct 30, 2005

2.7 GHz is faster, raw chip set wise but it may not be performing up to snuff. There are benchmark utilities you can download and run on a computer that will tell you how fast things are crunching. I'd run those tests AFTER I turn off all the crap running in the background.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,110667,00.asp

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

strange m1nd · Oct 30, 2005

thanks friend