| Evad |
| With the PC upgrade I will add a few suggestions.. Firstly you should start using something a little better for your video editing - download the Adobe Premier trial and see if you like it. Also I would get a firewire card (or a motherboard with firewire built in) and pick up a firewire cable so that you can transfer better quality and faster. My suggestions aren't all that expensive, should only cost you around $80. |
| jfish1936 |
| Thanks, Evad, will try the trial software. Unfortunately, though the computer has Firewire, the Sony Handycam doesn't. which surprised me! |
| jfish1936 |
| Scottie, I upgraded the computer! Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 4 Gb RAM Vista 64 500 G HDD plus 500 external Windows rating 5.0 Made a huge difference! Might go get the Sony software now |
| Scottie |
| Greetings, Solution: To stop Windows movie maker from locking up i suggest all you do is buy 1 more stick of ram so go from 512 to 1g+ and you will no longer experiance problems. Price: $40 alternatively i suggest you use better movie editing software assuming editing is what you want to do, i suggest Adobe After Effects or Sony Vegas Pro, If you whant to take option 2 it will cost more in upgrades the minimal specs for After effects is hight and Vegas is not much better. # intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor # 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD Keep in mind that is industry standard software for editing movies. (easily add light saber effects and many cool things.) Regards, Scott |
| jfish1936 |
| 1/. I own a Sony DVD camera with USB connection and "Picture Package" software; 2g Celeron with 160 GB HDD and 512 RAM, Win XP. 2/. I use Windows Movie Maker to make .wmv files. 3/. It's slow, and often locks up. 4/.(a) What hardware specs should I buy? (b) What software? |