Best Configuration Of Computers For Home Movie Editing
Home movie editing is something that is being practiced quite passionately by many people over the world. But this passion becomes a pain if the software application is made to run on slower machines. There can be loss of audio and video data, and the effects would not fill in properly on the final outcome. The frame rate would be so slow, that it would become very difficult to put in precise time effects, and there could a lot of 'out of sync' things in the final product. Also, slow computers will make the whole editing process an inordinately slow task; so slow in fact, that you would lose all your interest in editing the draft.
Rendering is an important aspect of your computer movie editing process. Rendering means transferring the movie you have recorded with your digital camera or camcorder into the hard disk of your machine. Obviously, your machine should have a good enough microprocessor to handle this data. Video data will always require a lot of kilobytes, and the transfer could take very long if your microprocessor is not able to work at that speed. You will find the great difference your computer's configuration makes when you render your movies. On slow computers, the process can take hours for ten minutes of recorded video, but a fast processor will do it within seconds.
It must also be pointed out here that your computer hard disk must have enough space to store the data. That would depend on the length of the movie you have recorded, but the computer movie editing software will also be occupying a large amount of space. Even after the movie has been dumped onto your computer, there must be free space, since movie editing requires a lot of temporary files to be generated. Each graphic and effect that you enter into your movie will add to the space. So, you must not begin your computer movie editing process unless you have good space to work with.
The effects of a slow computer are also felt when you are transferring a finished movie back to your camcorder, perhaps to transfer it to video. If your computer is slower than the camcorder can handle, then there is a very high probability of frames being lost in the transfer. The result - when you play back the video on a faster machine, you will find chunks missing. Hence, you need to have a fast machine for computer movie editing. A Pentium III is just about up to the task, but it could become slow if you have other programs running in the background. For home movie editing, your computer should ideally be no less than a Pentium IV. Also, it matters which editing software you are using. Most operating systems have their own products. It is better if you use the editing software that is manufactured by your own operating system, because it will run faster.
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