Video Editing Questions

[Justkeeplookin]

So i was buying video editing programs like CS7 and when i ran it i don't see the need of getting a quad-core to run it even with my own animations i made 34 slide animations at 12 fps and when i checked task manager it was at 50% usage for the first core and 25% at the second. People say video editing is very very very CPU demanding and running it with an old 1.6GHz Dual Core and i don't see a problem. I also did the same thing on Macromedia 8 once againg very smoothly same thing on GIMP

Basicly i am saying. Why do they say video editing and stuff is so CPU demanding. I also clipped and edited. I was also running Mozilla Firefox in the background and still under 75% on both cores i dont understand

 

[Nuckles_56]

What size were the images, as the larger the number of pixels, the more the CPU will be used, Also, as soon as you start making the video, the CPU will have a lot of work, especially if you are compressing the file

 

[Justkeeplookin]

640 by 400 and 700 by 500 they were simple animations. I saw that as soon as i shut of task manager the CPU usage dropped to 0-4%

 

[Justkeeplookin]

I meant as soon as i shutoff the program

 

[Vynavill]

At that resolution you shouldn't have issues with most video editing softwares. It might take a while on encoding and compression, depending on length, but it'll be fine otherwise.
The higher you go in resolution, framerate and length, the better your CPU has to be, not much for the need of raw calculating power but rather for time/speed.

In the end, even for 1080p+ videos, provided you have enough RAM to keep up with editing, rendering, encoding and (eventually) compressing, you could even use a single core CPU, but it would take considerably more time than a quad-core one.

 

[Justkeeplookin]

When compressing do i take saved 72 framesmates per second vids and compress them smaller? maybe 12 fps example?