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Posted by Smarty on 02/06/07 12:12
Bruce,
I've stopped building systems from components quite a few years ago, and
don't like dealing with the issues that often arise when motherboards, CPUs,
memory, etc. have incompatibilities. This is even more true for video
editing platforms.. I am thus not really qualified to offer any blessings /
opinions, but I personally go for mostly Dell boxes, both servers and
desktop workstations. I've got 7 of them in different roles here, mostly
video serving and editing, and the cheapest servers to higher end machines
run 24/7 for years with no issues. I frankly do not see the economy of
do-it-yourself here anymore when it comes to PC boxes, but I always buy and
add drives, memory, PCI cards, etc. to Dells with few if any problems.
To answer your question a bit generically, I think the class of system you
are buying should serve well for video editing, and I personally find SATA
non RAID systems the way to go. Don't know much about your video card and
how well it is rated, but few editing suites take any advantage of the card
itself except in very limited fashion. Plenty of RAM, CPU, disk, and power
supply juice seem very appropriate, but I have done HDV editing with a lot
less horsepower if I use the software I mentioned previously. (I actually
did HDV editing on my wife's Mac Mini until my bigger beast arrived and it
was remarkably adequate considering the $599 pricetag for both computer and
iMovieHD software !!). I am not a big Mac fan BTW despite owning their very
best hardware and HD editing software.
A good, large monitor would be my only other strong recommendation, perhaps
two in fact. Display real estate is a BIG issue with many of the editing
programs. I don't see any mention of your thoughts in this regard.
Smarty
<yarock@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1170750585.671019.194850@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 5, 10:29?pm, "Smarty" <nob...@nobody.com> wrote:
> Here is the correct link for the NEC burner:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058
>
> Smarty
>
> "Smarty" <nob...@nobody.com> wrote in message
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> news:R62dnUklLZWIbFrYnZ2dnUVZ_ternZ2d@adelphia.com...
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>
>
> > Bruce,
> > You might consider substituting the NEC burner from the same Newegg
> > source:
>
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058\\\
>
> > A total of 1220 people gave the NEC the best 5 star review, and many
> > newsgroup people on other newsgroups have experienced media
> > incompatibility issues with the Sony. I have half a dozen burners here
> > and
> > the NECs are my favorite, way better than the Sony IMHO. They also cost
> > less.
>
> > Smarty
>
> > <yar...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >news:1170688760.129359.60870@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
> > On Feb 3, 6:30?pm, "Smarty" <nob...@nobody.com> wrote:
> >> Bruce,
>
> >> My prior post begins with the assumption that you could / would
> >> consider
> >> alternative software on your existing PC, as opposed to replacing the
> >> PC
> >> hardware to run Premiere or other HDV editors.
>
> >> If your intention is, instead, to keep your software and beef up the
> >> hardware, then a core 2 duo / quad platform as Mike recommended or
> >> possibly
> >> a high end AMD equivalent will get you the speed / performance you
> >> want.
>
> >> Long rendering times are the big penalty if you are transcoding HDV
> >> down
> >> to
> >> standard def DVDs when authoring in Encore. The extra hardware
> >> investment
> >> will speed things up a lot, but I have been mostly disappointed when
> >> moving
> >> stuff onto the quad Xeon in this regard. Most of the programs do NOT
> >> take
> >> proper advantage of the parallelism, especially for rendering, but
> >> adding
> >> more RAM and using 10k Raptors does certainly seem to help.
>
> >> Smarty"Mike Kujbida" <kuj...@NoSpamxplornet.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:52kf3nF1ojcumU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> >> > yar...@aol.com wrote:
> >> >> We edit in Premiere Pro and use Encore for dvd authoring. In
> >> >> addition,
> >> >> we have Cineform aspect HD for hdv editing. We are dioing more HDV
> >> >> editing and our P3 2.8 system isn't cutting it any more.
> >> >> We need to build a new system that will let us do real time hdv
> >> >> editing, etc.
> >> >> We'd REALLY appreciate any component reccomendations for building
> >> >> this
> >> >> system.
> >> >> Bruce S. Yarock
> >> >>www.yarock.com
>
> >> > It was built for Vegas but take a look at the specs on the core 2
> >> > quad
> >> > system athttp://johnrofrano.com/pcequipment.htm
>
> >> > Mike- Hide quoted text -
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> >> - Show quoted text -
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> > Thanks to you guys for the feedback. For the time being we're sticking
> > with Premiere Pro, Cineform and Encore. Here's the system we came up
> > with. Ant rections or ideas would be appreciated.
> > Bruce S. Yarock
>
> > CPU - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache
> > LGA 775 Processor
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115011$985
>
> > Thermaltake toughpower W0117RU ATX12V / EPS12V 750W Power Supply -
> > Retail (Power supply combo price $1125)
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Motherboard - ASUS P5WDG2-WS PRO Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX
> > Server Motherboard
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...OTC-pr1c3watch$325
>
> > Seagate Barracuda ES ST3320620NS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
> > Drive - OEM (Combo Price: $379.98 for both, scratch drive)
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Memory - Corsair XMS2 1GB x 4 (ASUS approved)
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145153$122 per GB =
> > $488
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Video Card - PNY Quadro FX 1500
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133179$529 ($514 at
> > ZipZoom)
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Hard Drives (Western Digital Raptor) - You'll need at least 3 drives
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136033- $159 ($139
> > after rebate)
> > Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial
> > ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
>
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136012- $220 ($189
> > after rebate)
> > Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial
> > ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Case - Full tower
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811133154- $150
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > DVD burner - Sony
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827131039- $46- Hide quoted
> >text -
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Thanks, Smarty.
What do you think of the rest of the system?
Bruce S. Yarock
www.yarock.com
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