What part of a video editor build needs to be the best

[sji852]

Hello,

Starting to price out building a mATX mini-tower so that we can get everything third party off of our NewTek TriCaster. What will speed up the conversion and make it so that my future built computer can handle the large video files i'm working with within our editor AVS 6.4 better. The model i'm working with has XP upgraded to 4 GB of Ram since XP will only read that much. In addition have an Intel Q8400 Core 2 Quad Processor. Seagate drive for the newtek stuff and crucial V4 128 gb ssd to record to so it's fast copy to the largest drive 2 TB WD 7200 RPM. What's happening is when i bring in the video files to AVS even after waiting for the audio stream to show visually in the editor's timeline I'm still having issues AVS will lock up still after a few forwards to find the right spot to start cutting video. Have had to resort to converting to MP4 then split the mp4's. I use the same conversion settings all the way through hoping that doesn't kill quality lol. Anyways if i'm going to build one from scratch what part will help the most in speeding up conversion time. On the Tricaster currently taking around 30 minutes after MP4 Conversion of the entire file. Files are running around 30 + minutes or longer depending on the person speaking at the church I do it for. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[aedipuss]

encoding is cpu dependent. so start with an i7 16gb ram and a 64 bit o.s. like win7.

[sanlyn]

64-bit doesn't run faster, especially with 32-bit software. It just accesses more memory. The O.P. is using XP. Best solution: stop using AVS.

[aedipuss]

64 bit with more memory does run faster for large files that would have to be swapped in and out of the page file on a 32 bit system.

[sanlyn]

Hasn't happened for me yet. But I didn't try Win7 for that long a time when it became apparent that I'd have to throw away $3000 worth of video software to use it. Switching big files back and forth between Win7 and XP took a lot longer than file-swapping for a few filter runs, I'd guess. You could be right. It didn't seem to be worth the expense, trouble, or loss.