Need a PC for 1080 video editing

Scott B

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Jan 31, 2013, 5:29:14 AM1/31/13

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Sadly my laptop (4 year old dell) and desktop (eeePC) are both not grunty enough to play back full HD video's from my gopro and camcorder.... let alone edit them. So I am going to have to upgrade my desktop machine.

It appears XP does not handle editing Full HD well? so I am planning on going to Windows Live Movie Maker on Win7 - unless anyone has any better suggestions, linux perhaps? I don't need to do anything fancy, just chop the good bits together so that I can store them as smaller files.

So, where to source a machine? doesn't necessarily need to be new. The options at the moment seem to be get MSY to build something up, or see what Aspitech have on offer - I assume they still get some reasonably modern stuff come through their doors that would be up to the task?

Tamsyn Michael

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Jan 31, 2013, 5:46:52 AM1/31/13

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Robert's ones (from Aspitech) are fine (good) for this. Plenty powerful enough, and pretty darn cheap. I'd go with one of them (comes with an OS too I think). I know there are open source tools, but this is not my field of expertise, and after spending about a dozen hours trying to get nVidia drivers working under Linux I'd go with Windows as my base.

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Steven Pickles

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Jan 31, 2013, 5:58:44 AM1/31/13

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For really non-fancy stuff you could look at avidemux, as it can chop up files without reencoding them. Most video editors will need to decompress and then recompress them.

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Andrew Helgeson

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Jan 31, 2013, 6:10:42 AM1/31/13

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AviDeMux will NOT handle H264 1080 video, it'll have to be DivX or AVI
Your best bet is Cinellera.
VirtualDub under windoze works well (cutting a timelapse together right now)

Andrew

Steven Pickles

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Jan 31, 2013, 1:02:09 PM1/31/13

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Except when it does...

It can only cut on keyframes though, which is what you would expect if you weren't re-encoding.