30 day trial/demo version?

[Cageman]

Hi.

SpeedEdit looks really nice. I've been using both Avid and Premiere alot and I am curious about SE!!!

Will there be a trial/demo version avaliable anytime soon?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)

[rbartlett]

Hi Cageman,

The machine spec you listed might have an installation issue even if you did have a 15 or 30 day demo available right now. SE requires SSE2 instructions and the Athlon MP 1800 (1533MHz) or Athlon MP 2200+ (1.8GHz) doesn't appear to have this. You could check this for greater certainty than my words or searching for the facts but my recommendation is to use SE on a computer that has at least the same current value as the software-app itself.

compare with:
http://www.newtek.com/speededit/specs.php

check your CPU specs with more certainty using this tool from here:
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php


I'll be more specific - just as I would have recommended VT[2] folks used an Intel architecture that had at least PC800 Rambus (way back when, and even after PC2100 and 2700 DDR came out). In the SE case I would personally recommend a machine that uses the DDR2 memory type for main memory, with the lowest latency and fastest SSE2-minimum CPU you dare afford. Less will do but it appears that your nominated machine won't ever manage to get over the admission bar. Your socket type is probably too old to swap for an AMD that will, or at least not economically in a way that will tick all the other useful boxes for a modern SD/HD NLE.

[Cageman]

Thanks for your reply!

SSE2 is not avaliable in my CPU, that is very correct. Non of AMD 32-bit CPU:s ever had this, to my knowledge. However, at my office we have really nice Dualcore 64bit AMD-chips with 2GB ram. We also have a couple of CoreDuo machines with 4GB ram.

Would be cool to try SE on one of those machines! :)

[Danic101]

Actually AMD did add SSE2 to the 32 bit atholon systems.

[Lightwolf]

Actually AMD did add SSE2 to the 32 bit atholon systems.
Nope... SSE yes (and even that was only added to the last two cores afaik, starting with the "XP" lines), SSE2 no, that came with the 64bit line of CPUs (Model 8 and above) (but is available in 32bit mode as well of course).

Cheers,
Mike

[John Perkins]

None of the socket A processors came with the SSE2 instruction set.

You will need a socket 754 or newer CPU (Athlon 64, Opteron, etc.) to get SSE2 capability from AMD.

From Wikipedia, the list of SSE2 capable CPUs:
* AMD Athlon 64
* AMD Athlon 64 X2
* AMD Opteron
* AMD Sempron (Socket 754/939/AM2 versions only)
* AMD Turion 64
* Intel Pentium 4
* Intel Pentium D
* Intel Pentium EE
* Intel Pentium M
* Intel Celeron (Socket 478 versions only)
* Intel Mobile Celeron
* Intel Celeron D
* Intel Celeron M
* Intel Core Solo/Duo
* Intel Core 2 Solo/Duo/Extreme
* Transmeta Efficeon
* Intel Xeon (Except Pentium II and Pentium III Xeons)
* Via C7

[Mike Maier]

I hope a demo version goes online soon. Who's gonna pay for something without trying? Specially when basically every NLE in town has a downloadable demo. Unless Newtek is happy with only selling it to VT users.

[ScorpioProd]

Unfortunately, in another thread on this subject, Newtek has stated there are a lot of licensing issue problems with doing a 30-day demo... So in that thread it was suggested not to expect one soon.

I agree with you that I think one is VERY needed, for the same reason you mention, it's what all the competition has, so how can people really know if SpeedEDIT is right for them otherwise...