Dougie wrote:
The result worked fine, but,it took forever for these short clips and effect renders to complete!! Indeed it was quite a few minutes for them to even start and the green render line would often stop for a while.
Video editing is resource intensive. You might compare your PC to this. If it's not up to snuff you can expect sluggish/crashy performance.
The system requirements listed below are recommended by the creator of another loosely comparable editing tool as minimums for general digital video production work.
Screen Resolution:
1024 X 768, 16-bit color or above.
OS:
Windows 7/Vista/XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture).
Memory:
512 MB required.
3 GB DDR2 or above recommended for 32 bit OS.
6 GB DDR2 or above recommended for 64 bit OS.
CPU:
AVI Capture/Producer profiles: Pentium II 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz.
DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+.
High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2.
Full-HD quality H.264 and MPEG2 profiles: Intel Corei5/7 or AMD Phenom II X4.
AVCHD and BD burning profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400, or AMD Phenom II X2.
Video Capturing Device:
PCI or USB1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver).
DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE1394.
DVD camcorder connected via USB2.0.
Sony MicroMV/AVCHD/HDV camcorder.
JVC Everio camcorder.
Panasonic MicroMV/AVCHD/HDV camcorder.
Hard Disk Space:
5 GB required.
10 GB (20 GB recommended) required for DVD production.
60 GB (100 GB recommended) required for BD/HD/AVCHD production.
Burning Device:
A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD* titles.
A Blu-ray Disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Disc titles*.