A question for those that do their own videos, what spec of PC are you using, and more specifically what graphics card? Despite upgrading my PC to the following:
AMD Athlon X2 2.5GHz
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit
ASUS 4350 graphics card with 512MB of RAM
The footage I shoot plays fine in VLC etc, but as soon as I pull it into editing software it grinds to a halt and preview playback is very jerky. I've tried Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Magix Video Edit and all of them have the same problem. I've got the latest video card drivers and codecs but nothing's helping. Windows Movie Maker is ok, but the downside is I lose the HD quality when I output it.
I suspect the graphics card is the weak link but I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are. I guess I'm looking at one with more RAM and 1GB options vary from £50 to £500, with a few 2GB ones though they aren't that common.
I'm interested to hear what others are using from a software and PC spec point of view.

