With my recent purchase of the new Canon 7D, I have been rendering HD videos for days on my old XP computer.  Well, it turns out rendering is completely useless for HD movies longer than like 10 minutes. If your computer freezes while rendering using programs like Sony Vegas Pro or Adobe Premier, it’s probably your computer hardware. You will want to use 64-bit versions of any video editing software in order to render videos faster and in reasonable time. Plus, Windows XP only supports upto 4GB of memory (and for some AMD processors even less).  Even with a 4GB Windows XP setup I had, rendering came to a crawl and never rendered completely. So, I had a 64-bit Triple-Core AMD with 4Ghz that was running Ubuntu.  I decided to install Windows 7 64-bit version coupled with Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 64-bit version. For Windows operating systems, you will need either Vista or Windows 7 to take full advantage of extra memory you have on your computer. For decent rendering, I recommend at least 4 gigabytes of memory and perhaps 8 gigs if you can afford it. Anyways, I just got the new Windows 7 64-bit plus Sony Vegas Pro … Continue reading HD DIY – How to Render 1080P HD Videos!