• Adobe After Effects

  System recommendation

  Posted by Jeffczyz on September 26, 2006 at 7:45 pm

  I’ve been a “hobbyist” on and off for a few years and made due with a home grown system. I’m contemplating purchasing a new system that would be used mostly for Premiere, AE and Encore. I’m using the production suite and would like some recommendations on what I should get in a system. I’m on a slightly limited budget, under $2500. What are your recommendations for a aystem to handle AE rendering (Also maybe some HD)?

  Leor Brenman replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeffczyz

  September 27, 2006 at 12:14 am

  I’ll a little more… I recently bought (less than 2 months ago) a Matrox Parhelia p750, thinking it would help me out. Other than the nice dual head display I’m still not sure what I should be looking at purchasing for 1) Dual Head display and 2)Faster render times, editing and encoding.

  I’m working with a P4 1.8ghz and 1gb ram. I’d like to reuse as much of my existing hardware if possible, but willing to put some $$ into the video cards first.

  thanks in advance for the help
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  Leor Brenman

  October 5, 2006 at 10:57 pm

  Hi Jeff,

  I use the same sw as you do. I recently bought a Dell Prec 390 with Intel Dual Core 2 Extreme processor and 2GB RAM. I got it with the nVidia Quadro FX 3450 graphics card and two internal HDD. My configuration costs $3600 and I am very happy with it but I think you can configure it for $2,500.

  Good luck.

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