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[Bouke Vahl]

uneducated guess, if you put the proper graphic board in it will work just fine for SD. I’ve ran MC / mojo on a way slower system. (And i have run NLE’s on 80 Mhz single proc machines with a whopping 64 MB of RAM iirc, installed from a floppy as these systems did not have a CD-ROM. Broadcast video output though, aired on PBS…)
No idea on HD. If you are going to do HD, definitly get all the horsepower you can afford.

Bouke

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[Michael Hancock]

You should be fine with dual 2.33 GHz processors, but like Bouke said your performance may suffer some if you’re doing HD. Otherwise, it should run fine.

SO why go with 2.66GHz? NLE software is only going to become more and more demanding on the processors and GPU. Get the best you can possibly afford so you can run the system longer before you have buy another one.

My opinion.

Michael.

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I hear you Bouke. What was that old system?

How about 16MB on a 25MHz system? Remember the Newtek Flyer? We drove one of those for a few years.

The faster the machine you buy, the longer you go before you have to replace it. That $900 isn’t buying you speed as much as it is buying you TIME.

Jon
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[Bouke Vahl]

Never heard of the Newtek Flyer…
I started out with Amigas, in my last job we had some 24 bits board that could do stills with millions of colors, and it had COMPONENT OUT!!!!
Of course we also had a Targa Video board, connected (component) to a laserdisc recorder to do frame by frame anim recording (driven by a 286).
We once outputted an 30 sec, anim, rendered in a school with a lot of Macs and brought to us on floppy. (yes, we could read Mac files on PC even back then) Uncompressed of course, as image compression was sin back then. 750 floppy discs. Only two failed and had to be re-send.
A year or two later i started my own business and bought a Radius Video Vision and a mac 8100, 4 gig of RAID 0 harddisk and some Ram. Premiere 4.01, could output an EDL with two keys over a dissolve, and a BVE 910 could read it flawless.
But, not the best system back then, just the only one i could afford. (well, not really, it costed more than a year income)

After that came a Nubus M100, and that was true broadcast. Still got a lot of material from that 80 Mhz system in my showreel. No one can tell the difference. Not in image quality, not in effects 🙂

Bouke

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[Doug Dillon]

Hi All,

Thanks for your insight and taking the time to respond to my post. I will probably go ahead and get the faster machine. I am strictly SD right now, but plan to make the move to HD next year. Even then it will probably be HDV. I’m still sorting through the possibilities of that decision. In any case, it is a point well taken that I should at least attempt to buy a machine with the longest useful life possible.

Doug Dillon