Thanks all This means my laptop can do the job? (acer travelmate 5320 celeron 530 1,7 GHz) Just need to buy extra memory and then upgrade to 10.04. In that case I will wait a little while before bying a desktop with two screens.
Gerrit 2011/1/31 Kurt Georg Hooss <[email protected]> > > 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 >
