Go for two screens with reasonable high resolution, e.g. 2 x 1920x1200. You will need the desktop space. Does not need to be expensive. I have good experience with NVIDIA graphics cards in "twinview" setting.
Georg On Tuesday 25 January 2011 00:28:09 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 > -- kurts film / schoepfung & wandel c/o dr. hooss bäckergang 15 d 23617 stockelsdorf tel +49-(0)170-5890122 www.kurts-film.net _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
