4 GB of ram is ok with video editing since what you are doing is basically sucking video from the hard drive. When rendering from one format to another you need processor. When doing color correction and effects, graphic processing is used. I will show you exactly how much you need with your DAW like Logic and Studio one with real life music The specs of a pc or a mac determines how fast a music producer can work on his tracks and songs. How much RAM do you really need for video editing? IMac used in testsâ–ş http.
I have two major questions:
1.
I am looking to buy Pro Tools 11, but first I want to try the 30 day free trial. However, this presents me with a dilemma: Currently, my computer runs on Windows 7 and only has 4 GB RAM. Do you think that will be sufficient to test out the software? I would rather make sure I want the software before buying a computer to go with it.
My main concern stems from the following experience: 9 years ago, I bought a DAW and a new computer and I was very excited to use it. My main instrument is the piano, so I hooked up my keyboard and started recording midi tracks. However, the latency was awful: about a half second delay from when I pressed a key to when it registered on the computer. Of course this makes it impossible to record a new track on top of another track while listening to the initial track. This was extremely frustrating and I eventually sold my computer and gave up.
I understand that computers have come a long way in 9 years, but this is still a major mental block for me. On this go around, the first thing I would like to do is to prove to myself that I can overcome the keyboard midi latency delay issue (in other words, that it will not be a problem this time around).
Will a 4GB RAM Windows 7 computer be able to record midi from a keyboard without any noticeable latency? If not, what is the lowest RAM (and any other important specs) where you would feel comfortable saying keyboard midi should not pose any latency problems?
2.
My second question is this: We may eventually buy a nice Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM for Pro Tools. If we do, my wife would like to use it for a different purpose (editing photos and videos) when I am at work. I know it is recommended to dedicate a computer exclusively to Pro Tools 11, but this may be the only way I can convince my wife that we can spend the $4000 (or more) on a computer. Do any of you have experience using Pro Tools by night and other programs by day on the same computer? Has it worked ok?
Thanks!
1.
I am looking to buy Pro Tools 11, but first I want to try the 30 day free trial. However, this presents me with a dilemma: Currently, my computer runs on Windows 7 and only has 4 GB RAM. Do you think that will be sufficient to test out the software? I would rather make sure I want the software before buying a computer to go with it.
My main concern stems from the following experience: 9 years ago, I bought a DAW and a new computer and I was very excited to use it. My main instrument is the piano, so I hooked up my keyboard and started recording midi tracks. However, the latency was awful: about a half second delay from when I pressed a key to when it registered on the computer. Of course this makes it impossible to record a new track on top of another track while listening to the initial track. This was extremely frustrating and I eventually sold my computer and gave up.
I understand that computers have come a long way in 9 years, but this is still a major mental block for me. On this go around, the first thing I would like to do is to prove to myself that I can overcome the keyboard midi latency delay issue (in other words, that it will not be a problem this time around).
Will a 4GB RAM Windows 7 computer be able to record midi from a keyboard without any noticeable latency? If not, what is the lowest RAM (and any other important specs) where you would feel comfortable saying keyboard midi should not pose any latency problems?
2.
My second question is this: We may eventually buy a nice Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM for Pro Tools. If we do, my wife would like to use it for a different purpose (editing photos and videos) when I am at work. I know it is recommended to dedicate a computer exclusively to Pro Tools 11, but this may be the only way I can convince my wife that we can spend the $4000 (or more) on a computer. Do any of you have experience using Pro Tools by night and other programs by day on the same computer? Has it worked ok?
Thanks!
For what you describe, you need as much RAM as you can get.
How much RAM are you assigning to each VM? Add it up, and then add at least 4GB for the host to run. Then you have your minimum amount of RAM.
For instance if you plan to assign 4GB of RAM to each VM, that would mean 16GB for the VMs + at least 4GB more for the host OS. total 20GB. So you'll want, to be less constrained, to push it up to 24GB. If you plan on assigning more RAM to each VM, then do the math for that,
Speed, is less important if you have more RAM, specially if running windows, as it cares less about the speed, and more about the amount of ram available.
When not running the Windows VMs. 4K editing will benefit greatly with as much RAM as possible.
Nov 25, 2018 12:28 PM