On 01/25/2011 12:28 AM, Gerrit de Jong wrote:
Hello
I want a low-budget desktop computer optimized for cinelerra. Say up
to 500 dollar. What should I buy? Do I need a fast graffic card or
should I better spend the money on a faster CPU? What CPU performs the
best for the money? If I need a graffic card which one gives the best
value for money? How much memory is optimal?
My expectation is I will often have to stabilize shaky footage, and
sometimes I want to overlay a shot onto another one. If I got it right
these two things are done much faster by a graffic card, but some say
to me that rendering relays heavily on the CPU, and a graffic card
won't speed up that process. What is true?
My idea is to use an SSD for the swap partition (amongst others) Is
that a good idea? Or are there some pitfalls? And which distribution
will be the best performing. At this time I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I
like it but I did never get cinelerra to work with that. Besides that
cinelerra has been removed from the ubuntu repository two months ago,
so no updates. Arch linux may be to archaic for me. How is Gentoo?
Any comments are welcome.
Gerrit
1. You have to make the math yourself, since prices vary widly in The
Netherlands.
2. Using a modern CPU AMD/Intel will provide you with enough power.
3. Rendering graphics using Cinelerra has nothing to do with the
graphics card.
4. Using SSD is an expensive option compared to having say, 4GB or
more of main memory.
5. use a modern Linux distro of any kind. If Cinelerra is not
distributed with it, you can easily compile it yourself. Don't has
experience there? Find a distro with Cinelerra included.
My first use of Cinelerra was with an S3 card, pentium 100MHz and 512
MB. All worked well, albeit somewhat slower then today where I use an
AMD phenom II X4, 8GB memory and 2 TB online. Main difference is
processor speed and memory size.
Frans.
