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Wil my pc be abel to process HD video?

Jan 11, 2011 1:10PM PST

I just ordered my first hd camcorder. the canon vixia hv40. but it just occurred to me that my system might not be strong enough to handle hd video. this is my set up:
msi g31tm-p21 mother board
4gb ram
2.8ghz dualcore
nvidia geforce 9400gt 1gb
HDD 1tb + 250gb
windows 7 64-bit
master collection cs5

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How about using
Jan 11, 2011 10:24PM PST

a firewire port? That is required (along with a firewire cable).

Another possibility is a HDMI port that can take inbound video and audio. Black Magic makes good cards.

Which video editor are you planning to use? It needs to be able to deal with HDV.

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i do
Jan 12, 2011 12:53PM PST

i have firewire i use premiere pro cs5 and ae cs 5

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Then you should be fine
Jan 12, 2011 10:03PM PST

with that HV40. HDV is a lot less computer resource intense than AVCHD. 60 minutes of imported (decompressed) HDV format video will consume about 44 gig of computer hard drive space.

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yes
Jan 13, 2011 12:28PM PST

i do have firewire. i will use premiere and after effects cs5

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oke
Jan 13, 2011 12:30PM PST

thanx

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Yes
Jan 15, 2011 6:19AM PST

Hi,

yes, your computer specs are perfectly up to date. You have over 1TB worth of storage, a fast graphics card for video displaying and a perfect CPU or rendering and processing. You have adequate RAM. Unless you are editing SFX and long length movies, your computer will be able to handle it,

regards,

Aidan