Commy still too slow at rendering

centurion · #1 (**permalink**) 10-20-2005, 07:06 PM

Im running a dell machine with a 3ghz pentium 4. 1 gig of ram and i have 120gb harddrive. But im impatient and need to speed things up even more.

Any tips. Maybe an external firewire hardrive or more ram?

fastedit · #2 (**permalink**) 10-20-2005, 09:59 PM

what software are you using?

have u defraged your video drive recently?

is your pc full of stuff thats clogging the memory?

nick

Ian in Northampton · #3 (**permalink**) 10-21-2005, 09:17 AM

Centurion: if you've defragged your video drive and cleared memory of background crap, I don't think there's anything you can buy that'll make it faster. Video editing is a fundamentally, inherently slow process and not for the impatient... :lol:

Mike Thorpe · #4 (**permalink**) 10-21-2005, 11:29 AM

Have you got two hard drives, or are you just using the system drive to store your video?

centurion · #5 (**permalink**) 10-21-2005, 08:02 PM

I have two seperate hd's. One system and one vid capture. I suspect it because there filling up now so I reckon its time for an external drive or ridding my vid cap drive for a larger one. Just as a matter of interest is there a way to tell premier to use a certain amount of ram, ie 80% of it for rendering?

irishmark · #6 (**permalink**) 10-23-2005, 06:06 PM

More RAM will help.
A 3rd HD to render out to.
Raid but ideally 3 raids - 1 OS, 1 media(capture) & 1 Render.

You will always have to wait so learn patience. Even on highend systems you have to wait.