HD Requirements

[rando]

With Edius it says it wants a 128 meg card for HD editing. What if im editing HD footage in the DV preset? I have a mini I use for rough edit cuts then I take it home to finish and output. Can I still do that in HD?

[STORMDAVE]

AFAIK the Mac Mini's use an onboard Intel graphics card, not sure which version. If the processor is a C2D then you should be ok.

By HD do you mean HDV? Uncompressed HD? DVCPROHD? XDCAM HD? There are many formats that fall in the HD category.

I think the 128MB limit is for Direct3D overlay...

[GrassValley_KH]

I think the 128MB limit is for Direct3D overlay...

More or less just "overlay" - irrespective of what method you set EDIUS to use..

[rando]

Yes I meant HDV, I was trying to edit my HDV footage on my mini and I couldnt even get it to play for more than a second. In hind sight it could be VISTA ******* up all the resources and the USB 2 hard drive. I never seem to get very fast transfer rates via Firewire/USB 2 with VISTA. I wonder if I went back to XP if it would run better. Or if I should just sell the Mini.

[Bluetongue]

Yes I meant HDV, I was trying to edit my HDV footage on my mini and I couldnt even get it to play for more than a second. In hind sight it could be VISTA ******* up all the resources and the USB 2 hard drive. I never seem to get very fast transfer rates via Firewire/USB 2 with VISTA. I wonder if I went back to XP if it would run better. Or if I should just sell the Mini.

By the sound of it you are trying to edit in Native HDV and with a slow processor, it will just clog up regardless of the graphics card. Even the fastest have trouble with native. If you have Edius on both and you do not say and it will only capture in native on a slow computer, set up a "Watch Folder" and convert to HQ AVI and you should be amazed at the difference and the quality is no different
Regards Barry

[rando]

These are Canopus HQ files, This Mini is a secondary editing machine for me but its real handy . SHHH. . . I keep it on my desk at work with a KVM switch and when im not doing my regular job I edit. then I take my portable drive home and output to DVD. People think its just a fancy DVD drive. It kinda struggles with DV too a little but I think it may be a VISTA thing more than a Mini thing I mean it is a 2 gig CD2 with 3 gigs of memory the only real limitations are the video card and the hard drive(Firewire/USB 2) I have a Lacie gig-E NAS drive I may bring in and give a shot.