Hi there, I think the quad should be quite sufficient. Probably upping the RAM won't hurt but getting much over 2Gb is likely overkill, AV Linux has a light footprint on the system. I Have a Q9550 and it isn't sufficient for decent HD work unless I convert to an intermediate (DNxHD) format which is no big deal and makes Cinelerra MUCH happier anyway. Honestly regardless of CPU hprsepower ANY video editor with thank you for using a format with less temporal compression.
I find that Cinelerra gives a lot of headaches and warning messages when editing H.264 HD source files and has trouble decoding them which contributes to instability. With MJPEG or DNxHD files Cinelerra is as stable if not more so than Kdenlive or Openshot in my personal experience. I think any time an older machine is a useful machine it is not in a dump somewhere and that is a good thing! Regardless of what OS you settle on I think your Think Centre should do the trick. -GLEN > Doug, > > Sounds like an 8 year old PC would struggle with video editing. > RAM would help, but the CPU may struggle to keep up. HD would out of the > question. > Maybe your dual core might do it - I had an E6600 which handled SD fine, > but I upgraded when I went to HD. > Even picking up the opposite of bleeding edge (ie. components new but a > couple of years out of date), might not set you back too much. > > Best of luck, > > David > > ps. good to hear grandma is still with us! > > > > > On 02/04/12 01:31, Douglas Pollard wrote: >> My old HP Box with 2.2ghrtz Asus dual core 64 bit mother board over >> heated and died. It was limited to I g ram and it ran hot at 225f. I >> was doing black and white video over an hour long and the machine was >> well over 200F when half way through. I put this temperature info in >> here as it may be of some use to others. >> I have a 2004 IBM Think Centre desktop. 3 ghtz quad core, with >> i386 processors. I plan to dedicate it as a video editing machine. It >> only has 512 MB of ram but I will upgrade to probably 2g or maybe 4 if >> I can get off the money. I have a 250G hard drive I can replace the >> old 120 G drive with it. This would seem a nice video editing box. >> I loaded a video on Cinelerra to see if could be run at all. It >> runs slowly and very jumpy. Would that likely be due to not having >> enough ram or is something else going on here? I am using AVlinux >> which I am liking a lot. I would appreciate any advice if anyone has >> any experience with these IBM machines that would indicate the machine >> might not be suitable. I also have a Dell dual core 64 bit 2.8 Ghtz >> machine that I could use as a dedicated machine instead. The only >> thing I see that could be a problem is the drive is small and the >> parts are all proprietary and the drives I have won't install to the >> Dell harnesses. >> I have been using ubuntu but am not crazy about the direction it >> is going and do like Avlinux desktop and configuration. I would >> appreciate any comments that any think might be >> helpful. >> Thanks, >> Doug Pollard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cinelerra mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >> > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
