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Which program do most of you use for Video Editing. Does it handle HD Very Well?

I got Premiere CS3 running on a Core2 Duo T9300 @ 2.5GHz with 4GB RAM. It is running Vista 32-bit. It handles DV perfectly fine, but sucks at HD. The capturing part is fine, it never drops frames. So the Hard Drive is OK. I can't scan through a Video without waiting up to 10 seconds for the preview clip to catch up.

I don't want to upgrade Premiere ... Too Expensive. I've heard of Cineform Aspect HD Addon. but that's quite expensive too. Does anybody know if there is a free/cheap alternative to Aspect? or any other budget program that lets you edit HD video.

Let's face it, I hardly use any Premiere specific feature for editing porn (I've never touched after-effects - don't even know how to use it). I just need something that can cut/join video, do a simple bit of transition, and export to wmv/h264 all without losing audio sync.

[quote]I got Premiere CS3 running on a Core2 Duo T9300 @ 2.5GHz with 4GB RAM. It is running Vista 32-bit. It handles DV perfectly fine, but sucks at HD. The capturing part is fine, it never drops frames. So the Hard Drive is OK. I can't scan through a Video without waiting up to 10 seconds for the preview clip to catch up.[/quote]

Whats the bottleneck when your waiting them 10 seconds? Is the CPU pegged, or is the HD under heavy load. Opening up task manager should help identify where the issue is, if not Resource Monitor (simple) or Performance monitor (move advanced) would help you nail it down. Knowing whats the reason for the wait, will give you a few options as to how you solve it. It could well be the application, just being sloppy.

You should also be better off with a 64bit operating system as the 4GB of ram you have cannot be used fully under a 32Bit system, because

1. Using a 32bit system only allows you to access 4GB of memory total, and that includes videocard memory and additional add in cards memory i.e. If you had a 512MB video card, then the maximum system memory that could be used is 3500MB

2. 32Bit operating systems only allow a program to address a maximum of 2GB of ram for any single application at a time.

You can use PAE to get around these, but it comes with quite a performance decrease and can be unstable with certain hardware due to way it address's memory.

Thats not true, a 32Bit operating system can address 4GB of memory, however other devices in the system also need to have addressable memory, as i gave in the above example, if you have 4GB of ram and a 512MB video card, then you can use 3.5GB of memory (if nothing else is using any). But you are certainly NOT limited to 3GB (unless your configuration calls for it)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx