Hi
I have a sony DCR110E digital 8 camcorder,a pentium 3,500mhz pc with
plenty of HD space and about a gig of ram and a firewire card inside.

I am not looking to make the latest hollywood epic,i just want to tidy
up my holiday vids and make them look a bit more interesting whilst
possibly adding some background music to the existing sound track. I
have adobe premier 6 but it appears my pc is too underpowered to make
it useable,,can anyone suggest a solution that works well?.

ta

jo

In message , tarquinlinbin
writes
Hi
I have a sony DCR110E digital 8 camcorder,a pentium 3,500mhz pc with
plenty of HD space and about a gig of ram and a firewire card inside.

I am not looking to make the latest hollywood epic,i just want to tidy
up my holiday vids and make them look a bit more interesting whilst
possibly adding some background music to the existing sound track. I
have adobe premier 6 but it appears my pc is too underpowered to make
it useable,,can anyone suggest a solution that works well?.

Your computer far exceeds the minimum specification for using Premiere.

All video editors take a long time with some operations - you've just
got to have patience when rendering.
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

"tarquinlinbin" wrote in message
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Hi
I have a sony DCR110E digital 8 camcorder,a pentium 3,500mhz pc with
plenty of HD space and about a gig of ram and a firewire card
inside.


Is this just one HDD or are there two or more ?

I am not looking to make the latest hollywood epic,i just want to
tidy
up my holiday vids and make them look a bit more interesting whilst
possibly adding some background music to the existing sound track. I
have adobe premier 6 but it appears my pc is too underpowered to
make
it useable,,can anyone suggest a solution that works well?.


What transitions are you trying to use, if you are going for page
peals and the like your rendering will take time, are you using
Premiere on it's own or with a Real Time hardware card ?

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Hi
I have a sony DCR110E digital 8 camcorder,a pentium 3,500mhz pc with
plenty of HD space and about a gig of ram and a firewire card inside.

I am not looking to make the latest hollywood epic,i just want to tidy
up my holiday vids and make them look a bit more interesting whilst
possibly adding some background music to the existing sound track. I
have adobe premier 6 but it appears my pc is too underpowered to make
it useable,,can anyone suggest a solution that works well?.

ta

jo
Your PC is more then powerfull to work with Premiere 6. I have a PIII (850
mHz) on a laptop. Premiere works great with that
Jci

Buy a new PC.

A Pentium 3 - 500MHz is way too slow compared to what is availble nowadays.


--
ian
to e-mail me,
pls. amend the obvious.
"tarquinlinbin" wrote in message
...
Hi
I have a sony DCR110E digital 8 camcorder,a pentium 3,500mhz pc with
plenty of HD space and about a gig of ram and a firewire card inside.

I am not looking to make the latest hollywood epic,i just want to tidy
up my holiday vids and make them look a bit more interesting whilst
possibly adding some background music to the existing sound track. I
have adobe premier 6 but it appears my pc is too underpowered to make
it useable,,can anyone suggest a solution that works well?.

ta

jo

In message , i-ball
writes
Buy a new PC.

A Pentium 3 - 500MHz is way too slow compared to what is availble nowadays.

LOL... Have you tried reading the OP post to which you've replied?

--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

Buy a new PC.

A Pentium 3 - 500MHz is way too slow compared to what is availble
nowadays.

I edit some DV on a PIII 500. As long as it's nothing more complex than cuts
and fades, it works fine.

It's a laptop, though - it won't capture (even DV) without dropping frames,
but I think that's down to the cardbus firewire interface and the slow HDD.
I've captured DV to a PIII 800 desktop without dropping frames. I don't know
where the "threshold" is, but as it's not CPU intensive, I would guess that
even a PIII 500 desktop wouldn't struggle with capture (which, after all, is
the time-critical step).

"tarquinlinbin" wrote in message
...
Hi
I have a sony DCR110E digital 8 camcorder,a pentium 3,500mhz pc with
plenty of HD space and about a gig of ram and a firewire card inside.

I am not looking to make the latest hollywood epic,i just want to tidy
up my holiday vids and make them look a bit more interesting whilst
possibly adding some background music to the existing sound track. I
have adobe premier 6 but it appears my pc is too underpowered to make
it useable,,can anyone suggest a solution that works well?.

ta



Everthing depends upon what you can live with.
I tried many editors and found that every cheap one I tried had problems
with Titles and Transitions. If you looked very closely you could see jerky
video frames where the editor was changing frames to add titles and other
effects, and jumps at the junctions between copied and altered frames.

That's when you notice the "quality" of say Sony Vegas. Where the editor has
changed frames to add titles, effects etc, the video is smooth as silk.