Hardware for Vegas
by Bob Lange
on
Jun 29, 2008 at 6:27:56 pm
I have an HP xw8200 with 3.5gb ram 250gb sata drive, 1TB outoard drive and NVidea FX1300 video card.
What upgrades are needed/recommended to work with Vegas pro 8?
How will my lil laptop function with it?
It's an HP Dv4370 pent.M 1.7GHz cpu with 2gb ram, 100gb 4200rpm and a USB 2.0 7200rpm book drive...Vegas Movie Studio works with very small preview window.
What is the best video card or b.o.b. for external connections
Looking for practical opinions.
Thanks
-Bob
"When the goin gets weird, the weird turn pro"
-H.S.Thompson
Re: Hardware for Vegas by Allen Zagel on Jun 30, 2008 at 1:41:54 am
Hi
Vegas is not dependent on the video card so any good card will do. As far as your laptop is concerned I'd be very leary of a 4200rpm drive. Minimum I'd suggest would be the standard laptop HD at 5400 at least. That's what my Toshiba had, and I had no problems with that and Vegas. My new MacBook Pro has a 7200rpm drive.
As far as your desktop is concerned a 2nd internal HD would be great for your video files. You neer want to put your video and render files on your C drive. And as long as you're not doing HD you should be fine IMHO. I edit SD with Vegas 8 Pro with an old off-the-shelf HP P4.
Re: Hardware for Vegas by Bob Lange on Jun 30, 2008 at 5:02:40 am
Thanks Allen,
Yes, I know the laptop drive is weak. The Desktop xw8200 was the major concern. I can add an internal drive, eSATA if possible, and get the upgrade to Vegas pro 8.Nice.
I read a post, someone was having issues with an AJA card working with Vegas, so I thought I'd poll the group here on breakout boxes and video monitoring set-ups or vid-cards. Black Magic Extreme seems to be a good one.
-Bob
"When the goin gets weird, the weird turn pro"
-H.S.Thompson
Re: Hardware for Vegas by Allen Zagel on Jun 30, 2008 at 12:05:23 pm
I never needed any breakout boxes with Vegas like you do with some of the others. The only extra item I have is an old Canopus ADVC100 (now Grass Valley ADVC110) that I use to go out to my external NTSC monitor, or when capturing analog tapes.
That's why I threw Premiere 6 in the garbage (eBay) years ago because it came with that old Pinnacle (ugh!) breakout box. Or was it the other way around. ;-) An old Pinnacle DV500 that came with Premiere. I moved to Vegas 3 and never looked back.
Others here may use a breakout but you'll have to hear from them about it.
Also I'm hearing that the eSata is somewhat faster than even the firewire 400 and that's what I'm switching over to. But you'll still need the firewire for Vegas to capture AFAIK.
Allen
Re: Hardware for Vegas by Bob Lange on Jun 30, 2008 at 3:55:55 pm
I'm curious to know what people are using to connect a pair of monitors up with. What are they using to do critical viewing of HD output? That's why I asked about the monitors, cards & bob boxes.
I have used Avid MC (adrenaline)for years and am amazed at how clean and easy Vegas works. Great tool. Would like to get the hardware optimized for the changeover. The Editor too~!
Thanks for the info.
-Bob
"When the goin gets weird, the weird turn pro"
-H.S.Thompson
