Hi,
I tried in the year 2000 to edit video on my PC buy purchasing a Matrox 2000 realtime card.
After 100 hours of forums and tech support, I found out later that I was just a beta tester who paid $1300.00 and spent lot's of time for nothing. I was never able to edit anything.
Still, I trusted Matrox and went again in 2005 with the RT100 and a new faster machine. Never worked, so I figured I need a dedicated machine that wasn't for any other use.
Six months ago, I bought a Quad core Q9450, audio/video only machine from ADK, custom built, had CS3 installed by "experts".
For the first time in 10 years, I have successfully actually edited something that is 12 minutes long with a few effects, AE titles thru Dynamic Link, and am "sort of" burning to Encore ok now.
I've still had a crash every 3-4 hours through my 130+ hours on this project (by the way, I'm not a pro). I've also had those memory warnings about saving your work and proceeding with caution.
I do realize, and have been told, that my 32 bit system doesn't utilize the 4 gigs of ram.
So, my question is this. If I upgrade to a 64 bit system and add another 4 gigs of memory, will my problems be solved?
Also, is there no other way to get real time effects without rendering other than buy the RT200 from Matrox?
I just want to work and not troubleshoot anymore.
Finally, is upgrading to 64 bit done by formatting my disk, going to Vista and adding the memory?
Beside CS3 (I'm willing to go to CS4 even though I lose Ultra), I have Cakewalks Sonar 8 Producer and a few other audio programs on the machine. No virus software or other background stuff, except Ultra Mon for my dual monitors, Logitech software for the mouse and wireless keyboard and that's it.
Any comments would be welcome as I'm once again at a crossroads on what to do.
Thanks.
Jerry
http://www.jerrycastaldo.com
