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I am going to use my sony vaio for video editing. I know that video editing is very heavy on processing power, and think there used to be a way to start up windows which would stop all the junk programmes (anti virus and printer programmes) starting up and running in the background leaving all the processor power for the editing. Can anyone tell me if this is still possible and how to do this please? I am using windows XP home edition
 
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Go to start> run and type msconfig

This'll bring up a new window, click on the startup tab and un-tick any programmes you don't want to start up.

If you don't know what some of them are then just type them into a search engine.

Or you could just use add/remove programmes you don't want.

And finally you can pres ctrl+alt+delete which will bring up the task manager window, then select processes which will show you all the memory sapping things running in the background. You can stop them here, BUT make sure you know what they are and what they do before you stop them.

Good luck and be careful out there.
 
I really would reccomed not using a lappy for video editing, its not really so much the startup programs that are the limiting factor, but the disk speed and memory speed, mainly disk speed. That said, as long as you arnt TOO impatient you'll be ok ish.
 
Thanks for the advice. I will be using an external disk with a higher access speed for storage so I will post back if it works ok. Looked at task Manager then changed my mind I don't know what all the processes are so I will leave well alone!
thank you
 
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Video editing is possibly the most resource intensive situation you will encounter in the home environment. As an example, I use a desktop PC with 3.2GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, and 400GB of hard disk solely used for the video footage.

If you are capturing from a DV camcorder then the raw footage will be quite large - 13GB or more per hour of video. This is assuming the footage is full DV PAL resolution of 720x576 pixels.

Then you need to edit the video and create your final footage which may be another Gigabyte of storage required assuming you use MPEG2 as the output format...

I have no experience of using external hard drives for video capture BUT you would need to make sure that you have a good sustained transfer rate on disk writes otherwise you may drop frames during capture. By the same token, you need to ensure your laptop internal drive can cope with the transfer requirements.
 
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