cjubon a ?crit : > Hi, > > for the documentation (German wikibook, in that case), I'd like to add a > short section in the "Get and install" chapter about hardware > requirements. However, I've no idea what to write. It just seems to me > that my dual PIII (2 x 1GHz) is too slow for a jerkyless preview of > effects (mirroring, clip speed). This is really hard to know : as example, a clip made of an image folder of 1600x900 images can't be rendered in realtime on a PentiumM-1733. Only resizing them to PAL (768x576) is enough to get speed. I would say hardware needs depend on quality needs. I've succesfuly worked on a low quality project (320x240) on a Celeron 333! > Could someone be so nice to give me/us some reasonable values regarding > * hard disk (any special requirement, e.g. SATA, for HDV?) > SATA is not faster than ATA : the bootleneck is mecanical of harddisks, and all of them are fast enough to store 30MB/s (uncompressed HDV) > * CPU (min. speed for effects preview?; can kdenlive by itself make use > of smp/multi-core systems?) > No multi-core support in kdenlive, except if you want to work while rendering : the renderer is a separate thread. > * GPU (any special requirements - I don't think so) > You're right, no GPU is used. > * further, one needs a firewire port (USB not working, right?) - that's > it, I think Firewire (IEEE 1394 standard) is only needed to plug a DV cam, this is not the only way to use Kdenlive.
Good luck with such information. As example, I would only say : don't expect to work on huge movies with weak hardware ;-)
