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Hi,
I'm only a casual hobbyist when it comes to video, making short films for family events, holidays etc, but haven't been involved much as my camera were so outdated (minDV and 4:3, no wide screen let along HD !). However in order to get back into the hobby again I recently purchased a new 4K camera, although our TV is standard HD, so mostly record in 1080P HD.
I've downloaded the free version of Resolve 12.5 and am enjoying the learning curve, but on a few occasions I've found that the clips stutter when played both in preview or from the time line (these have been pre-processed from MTS format to one that Resolve can handle). My PC is around 8 years old. Based around an AMD FX6100 six core running at 3.3ghz, 12GB DDR3 dual channel RAM, 1GB ATI Radion 7700 GPU and a couple of 500GB 7200 rpm hard drives (one for OS and programs, the other data files inc video)
I'm on a limited budget (circa £100), so replacing the system with a new i7 etc is out of the question, but would like suggestions as to where best to spend that £100 to improve my resolve experience when editing my hobby videos. If I read the documentation, Resolve uses the GPU more than CPU, so would upgrading my graphics card to a 2GB card be the better option, or to use a dedicated 120GB SSD for video files. Or would my GPU and HDD be OK and replacing the RAM with 32GB of DDR3 1333 RAM (the max the CPU / mainboard supports) work out better.
I would welcome your suggestions.
Regards
Malcolm
I'm only a casual hobbyist when it comes to video, making short films for family events, holidays etc, but haven't been involved much as my camera were so outdated (minDV and 4:3, no wide screen let along HD !). However in order to get back into the hobby again I recently purchased a new 4K camera, although our TV is standard HD, so mostly record in 1080P HD.
I've downloaded the free version of Resolve 12.5 and am enjoying the learning curve, but on a few occasions I've found that the clips stutter when played both in preview or from the time line (these have been pre-processed from MTS format to one that Resolve can handle). My PC is around 8 years old. Based around an AMD FX6100 six core running at 3.3ghz, 12GB DDR3 dual channel RAM, 1GB ATI Radion 7700 GPU and a couple of 500GB 7200 rpm hard drives (one for OS and programs, the other data files inc video)
I'm on a limited budget (circa £100), so replacing the system with a new i7 etc is out of the question, but would like suggestions as to where best to spend that £100 to improve my resolve experience when editing my hobby videos. If I read the documentation, Resolve uses the GPU more than CPU, so would upgrading my graphics card to a 2GB card be the better option, or to use a dedicated 120GB SSD for video files. Or would my GPU and HDD be OK and replacing the RAM with 32GB of DDR3 1333 RAM (the max the CPU / mainboard supports) work out better.
I would welcome your suggestions.
Regards
Malcolm