Kurt (and all) Should we mention Suse as an alternative to Ubuntu ? 2 screens are a must and don't hesitate to use a CRT as your compositor display, they are often quite good for the black point or a good plasma TV via HDMI, but you need to be in relatively dark~ish environment and the all setting will probably be all but inexpensive. I also tried a SLI system and could not see much difference in performance. However the drivers may have improved since. If anything get yourself a Raid 0 or 5 for your data and a disk for your OS.. As for the filesystem on the RAID I tend to use a non journalised XFS as my data are often not to stay long.
Don't use XFS on your OS disk though it may not boot. Moreover Suse has a very good disk management system. Cheers E 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
