My Videos Render Sowly with AVCHD
by John Carold
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Aug 24, 2008 at 2:22:53 am
I have a canon avchd camera and when i upload it to vegas and render the video its takes forever. I have a computer running on windows xp with 1.12 gb of ram and 1.59 ghz of processor. Is it the fact of that my computer isnt great.
Re: My Videos Render Sowly with AVCHD by John Rofrano on Aug 24, 2008 at 3:14:14 am
Yes. AVCHD is challenging to render on the most powerful computers. If you look at the system requirements for Sony Vegas you'll see it says "(2.8 GHz recommended for HDV and AVCHD)". And they're not kidding. A 1.59GHz processor isn't anywhere near enough power.
Re: My Videos Render Sowly with AVCHD by Tony Archer on Aug 24, 2008 at 4:26:21 am
I purchased a Quad core and 4 gig of ram, specifically to be able to render and work with AVCHD video, I would suggest you do the same. With that setup I am pleased with the render times (Of course I'm not working on 2 hour-long videos, but even so)
Re: My Videos Render Sowly with AVCHD by Steve Rhoden on Aug 24, 2008 at 4:31:28 am
Exactly John Carold,
As John Rofrano highlighted, your computer is way under-powered for
handling processing power efficiently. Especially ACVHD format which
is processing intensive.
If you are gonna want to continue editing your AVCHD without stress,
you need to upgrade accordingly, or if its out of your budget at the
moment, you can grab a copy of "AVCHD Upshift" over at 'vasst.com'
to make editing it a bit more tolerable...its going for only $49.00
Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
sample bits at
www.youtube.com/hentys
Re: My Videos Render Sowly with AVCHD by John Rofrano on Aug 24, 2008 at 1:03:49 pm
I don't even think AVCHD UpShift will help because it turns AVCHD into HDV which still requires a minimum 2.8GHz processor. Not even GearShift will help because it will still take forever to create the DV proxies. All of these solutions are for people who don't want to go dual core or quad core yet but this person doesn't even have a single core capable of the job. He really needs a new PC for working with HD video.
