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stewarta13wsb
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Firstly, having finally burnt my first DVD, with chapters, new sound etc., I'd just like to thank everyone on the forum who helped me get this far :)
But it has prompted a couple of other questions -
What one thing would speed up my PC (specifically for this type of video editing work) I thought it was a reasonable spec - Pentium 4, 1.8GHz, 256 Meg of Ram, a good Video card (NVidea) etc., or, as someone knew to this, does it just take for ever and that's it?
And second, I notice there is little or no Roxio stuff on the forum - is this because it's crap, or just not as good as the rest, or what? I'm reluctant to change - it was supposed to be free with the DVD drive but needed a £45 'upgrade' to let me edit sound, but I find it unstable and tend to click on the next step when it's not 'ready' but the mouse pointer isn't indicating it's still working.
Any help appreciated, and thanks again for getting me this far :)
Stewart
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greysts
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By far the most cost effective upgrade is at least another 512mb ram for your PC. 256mb is just about enough to run Windows XP and to do anything else, particularly video editing, needs a lot more. The other essential is a good graphics card with it's own memory on board. Which particular type of NVidia card do you have?
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stewarta13wsb
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G force 3 is the card... not sure what that comes with in on board memory but I think it's a good one (or was at the time!)
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thebiggfella
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If you're looking for some video editing software, have a look at Ulead Video Studio 8. I've had it for a while now and it does a great job. Have a look at the reviews.
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RichieP
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In reply to:
If you're looking for some video editing software, have a look at Ulead Video Studio 8. I've had it for a while now and it does a great job. Have a look at the reviews.
Recently bought it myself. Does the job you expect. Things like Roxio and Nero try to do too many things, some not very well.
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thebiggfella
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That's the thing with Ulead VS8, it's my first experience of video editing software and I've found it really simple to use and it's got plenty of options without being too OTT. I'm glad I didn't get Nero or Roxio you refer to.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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