What would you suggest for hardware for effects heavy projects?

[Adam Brennan]

I am using an AMD 2.2Ghtz processor/ liquid cooled with 4 hard drives at 7200 rpm with 8 mb memory
also have 2100/266 ddr ram.

I like to use heavy transistions and effects on some of my projects, but the thing that holds me up is the time it takes to export/ render it.

Is there any hardware out there that will allow me to render/export quicker than what I have?

Give you an idea how long a 7 minute timeline will take to render with film fx and some transistions..is about 5 hours or 13600 frames in five hours. There has to be something quicker than this out there?

Thanks!
Oh, I use adobe premiere 6.5

[Robert Knecht Schmidt]

Well, depending on the complexity of your transition and comp work, you may find a realtime system such as the Canopus DVStorm to be an attractive hardware solution.

The fact that you're using Premiere and not After Effects tells me this is probably a very viable option, especially since Canopus will be releasing Edius which will be able to do everything that Premiere can do, but all in real time--so you won't experience rendering waits at all anymore except under the most sophisticated of multi-layer comps.

Until Edius is released, you'll be able to do 80% of what you can do in Premiere using the current version of Storm Edit, which is the proprietary real-time editing software that comes along with a DVStorm card.

The DVStorm also comes with a plug-in to Premiere, so you will be able to re-tool your current Premiere projects with the Storm's realtime transitions and filters.

http://www.canopus.com

[Ed Smith]

Also see my reply to your first question

"Rendering question in adobe premiere 6.5 rendering is way too long!"

All the best,

Ed