Alan Mills

Hi Alan

Mark suggested that I contact you about this query....hope you may have some feedback for me?

Recently bought a HP XW6600, Quad Core Xeon E5420, 2.5GHz, 8GB RAM, 250GB HDD, DVD+/-RW, +extra 500GB (7200rpm) second drive, Nvidia quadro FX 1700 512MB Graphics, - mainly to edit HDV/SD footage In Premiere CS3.

I captured 30 secs of HD footage, applied a duration/speed of 50% which extended the footage to 60 secs and then rendered it.
I was hoping that it would render in a few seconds but it took 2.5 mins. My previous pc - this test would take 5 mins.
So the HP is 2 times quicker at rendering then my old machine (pentium 4) but for me this seems really slow still.

What times can you guys achieve?, and what can I do to speed up rendering time? Will a matrox card (RT.X2) make any difference?

Any ideas would be really appreciated .

Thanks

Maxx

Thank you.

Hi Alan
Sorry to bother you. I picked this site off Google hoping to make an enquiry about a problem with video editing. I know it is getting late but I cannot find the way to either start a thread or make an enquiry. grateful for help

Brian Hilliard

Hello

I am a graphic designer and I do some video editing.

Recently a particular client wanted to compile her skating clips for her portfolio together.

I've spent about 15hrs on it (roughly) and I've had to motion track almost all of the clips because it was with an amateur video recorder (very shaky).

I've had to learn adobe after effects with this and I'd like to know very roughly the price I should be looking at to charge.

Thanks