Adam Chapman
January 10th, 2008, 07:45 PM
After interning at a big (for my area) production house this summer, my co-workers pushed me to buy a MAC for editing. I am completely against this, since I have been playing on PC since I was 6 - I know a lot about them, and I know how to fix them. The other issues is that MACs have a too high of a startup cost. It doesn't help that the quad core macs crashed Final Cut on me more than the total bugs in Windows 3.1x. So I am looking into buying an editing computer to last me for a while. I am a student, so I got to go cheap and I found this gaming computer website - CyberPowerPC.com. After searching through their inventory, I found a computer I liked. Here are the specs:
CASE: Apevia X-Telstar Aluminum Full Tower 420W Case
CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache 64-bit
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2
MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express
VIDEO CARD 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express
HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Optical Drive: Sony Q170A 18x Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive
SOUND: 3D WAVE ON-BOARD 5.1 SOUND CARD
Total: $1324.00
I do have an abundances of external hard drives, and will also be adding a terrabite RAID 0 attached to a PCIe SATA2 RAID Card, along with 2 more gigs of ram via Newegg sales. I also have a Creative Video Editor Audigy2 box I use for optical audio, in addition to 2 22' Acers monitors and a 19' HD Gateway.
We are planning on editing HDV using cineform and Premiere CS3 from a Canon A1. Would getting the BM Intensity Pro card to capture analog video (from a DVD/VHS) and also send a video signal via HDMI->DVI into my gateway 19' be a reasonable option? I also do a heavy amount of work in After Effects, so it would be nice to see a preview of that on the screen. My gateway only outputs 720p. Would that be a reasonable choice over 1080i? Would 720p be easier on the processor since it is less data?
My question is, is this even possible to edit HDV or am I just dreaming. Does it matter that they label it a gaming PC or does it really make a difference? I just don't want to blow a school loan on a PC that can't output what we need. I'm still new to this HD world - I have just adjusted to the simplistic workflow of SD.
Sorry for all the questions, just I can not find any one at my school interested in HDV that knows what they are talking about. Tis is what I get for going to a private Christian school. Ha.
(EDIT) It would help to know I am on and will be on XP Pro. :-)
CASE: Apevia X-Telstar Aluminum Full Tower 420W Case
CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache 64-bit
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2
MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express
VIDEO CARD 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express
HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Optical Drive: Sony Q170A 18x Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive
SOUND: 3D WAVE ON-BOARD 5.1 SOUND CARD
Total: $1324.00
I do have an abundances of external hard drives, and will also be adding a terrabite RAID 0 attached to a PCIe SATA2 RAID Card, along with 2 more gigs of ram via Newegg sales. I also have a Creative Video Editor Audigy2 box I use for optical audio, in addition to 2 22' Acers monitors and a 19' HD Gateway.
We are planning on editing HDV using cineform and Premiere CS3 from a Canon A1. Would getting the BM Intensity Pro card to capture analog video (from a DVD/VHS) and also send a video signal via HDMI->DVI into my gateway 19' be a reasonable option? I also do a heavy amount of work in After Effects, so it would be nice to see a preview of that on the screen. My gateway only outputs 720p. Would that be a reasonable choice over 1080i? Would 720p be easier on the processor since it is less data?
My question is, is this even possible to edit HDV or am I just dreaming. Does it matter that they label it a gaming PC or does it really make a difference? I just don't want to blow a school loan on a PC that can't output what we need. I'm still new to this HD world - I have just adjusted to the simplistic workflow of SD.
Sorry for all the questions, just I can not find any one at my school interested in HDV that knows what they are talking about. Tis is what I get for going to a private Christian school. Ha.
(EDIT) It would help to know I am on and will be on XP Pro. :-)