Tsunami MPEG's Media Editor
Video is prevalent throughout our society. From our DVD’s, to our home movies, to portable content, and internet video, a day cannot go by that each of us is not watching some video content at some point.At some point, any self respecting TechNudger wants to take the leap from watching content, to manipulating it. Two decades ago, before the “digital revolution,” video and film editing was strictly the territory of experts with dedicated machines and tons of time and expertise. Over the last several years, all that has been changing with the shift to digital video, and powerful computers available to the average consumer. Taking advantage of this computer horsepower on your desktop is video editing software.
Today we have the opportunity to review Media Editor, from Tsunami MPEG. This is designed to be a consumer level media editor for cutting and joining MPEG files. It is created for entry level consumer use, which is perfect because I have minimal prior video editing experience. This review will be written from a video newbie standpoint.
Few things cause today’s computers to even break a sweat with the exception of the latest games, and video editing. The absolute minimum computer for using Media Editor is a Pentium III 1 GHz chip, with 256 MB RAM, 10 MB free hard drive space for the installation, a display of 1024 x 768 running Windows XP. The recommended hardware includes a Pentium 4 2 GHz chip, 512 MB RAM, and 2 GB of hard drive space formatted in NTFS (as opposed to FAT 32). While these requirements are not ridiculous, don’t plan on rendering video on a computer more than a few years old. I tested the software on a notebook with a 2200+ Athlon XP processor, and 512 MB of RAM (my desktop was down and I wanted to proceed). Besides, it’s just above the recommended system requirements so we can see how realistic these requirements are.
--Jonas
posted by digitaldoc at 9:02 PM
4 Comments:
I use Pinnacle Studio 9 and what a difference a faster computer can make. My secondary machine is a P4 1.4Ghz with 768mb of RAM and an 80 gig drive. It took forever to do anything. I built a new machine for my son for video editing. It is a P4 64 bit at 3Ghz, 1Gig of ram and a 250Gig hard drive. It just flies through the tasks.
I wanted to see if Media Editor was faster on a quicker system, but the install requires "internet validation," so I was limited to a single system install. As it was already on the notebook, we went with it.
Hit Control-Alt-Del while the software is at work and take a look at the amount of CPU capability it uses. Big difference between single and dual core and even HT versus no HT.
On the Athlon XP 2200+ processor, which is from the mobile Barton family, I'm sure it's using most of the available processing ponies. I was surprised it got the job done as quickly as it did as it was just above the recommended processor, and the AMD chips aren't generally strong on video editing tasks.
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