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Building a PC for Prem Pro 2, what’s best?
I’m afraid I’m not super techy. However I’m fortunate to have friend who will build me the ideal PC for editing with Premiere Pro 2 (PP2) if I buy the components. It likely that I will try and edit in HDV or, if that’s too slow, some appropriate codec.
Let’s assume, for now, that money is no object, what should I be considering?
Starting with the graphics card. I’m a little confused since here https://www.videoguys.com/DIY-GPU.html I read that PP2 likes the Quadro FX1500, yet using Adobe’s own recommended hardware selector
https://www.adobe.com/products/premie…raphic&format=
it’s not mentioned. Which card should I be going for?One important thing I need from the graphics card is some sort of break out capability to a TV. Right now I use a Matrox RTX.100 card and the break out box is invaluable for colour correcting (something I don’t like to do on an LCD screen).
Moving on to the motherboard and CPU. This is where I’m really confused. I have worked out I probably need a Intel Core 2 Duo. Another friend of mine recommends the Asus P5B-E Plus i965, however he is a Sony Vegas fan and I don’t know if his recommendation is based on the fact that he wants this board for his own system. Therefore can anyone suggest a few other mobo’s please that will give me excellent performance with PP2?
I’m guessing that the RAM, minimum of 2Gb’s (is more needed?) will depend on the mobo?
The DVD recorder, case and power supply is pretty straight forward (isn’t it?) so I guess I can choose them myself.
I’m planning on using quite a lot of external Hard Drives for rushes since I’ll need to swap them between various machines. So the size of the internal hard drive is not such a big issue.
Are there any other components I should be considering?
Finally although this new PC will be mainly used for PP2 there will be a fair amount of After Effects use.
Oh, and as an afterthought is the Matrox RTX2 worth considering as an alternative option to all these high spec components? I’ve owned the RTX.100 and had many issues with it so unless the RTX2 is much more stable I don’t think I will consider it.
Thanks for any replies.
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The PNY FX1500 video version has composite and S-video outputs, if you want component output you might be interested in the PNY FX560 video version, it has a BOB with composite, S-video and component out. with the FX cards you can have either two computer monitors or 1 computer and one video
There is nothing wrong with a 965 chipset mobo,
If you are going to use AFX use as much memory as the board will hold, just make sure you set the 3gig switch, also use the fastest processor you can afford
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I just did the same thing myself. I wouldn’t get hung up on only getting an Intel chip…I used a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ on a ABIT Kn8 Ultra mobo and it’s more processor than After Effects and Premiere Pro 2.0 will use combined for the most part. I would recommend getting as much ram as you can. My secondary internal drive is a RAID array, but it sounds like you’ll be handling most of your files externally. I really don’t have a video card either…just a cheap model that supports high rez…no problems scrubbing through video, only mild delay on complex frame renders in AE.
One thing I think a lot of people overlook is the power supply. I wouldn’t cut any corners there. If money is not an issue, get the most expensive power supply you can afford.
-Dan
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Also, another thing to consider is your sound card. If you’re wanting to do real 5.1+ mixing, you’ll need something other than the typical sound card. Even the 5.1+ ones are really only two channel boards that fake 5.1+. As far as I know, and in my experience, you wont be able to get a real sense of your mix that way. I’ve ordered an Echo Gina 3G, which has 6 independent outputs that can be assigned different speakers in Premiere. Hopefully that’ll work.
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I’d love some help with 5.1 surround sound composing.
I have a 5.1 Home theater with an optical input & I have a Gina 3G. I thought composing would be as simple as connecting the Gina’s optical output into my home theater. Unfortunately it’s not. The best signal I can my home theater can produce from the Gina 3G is a PCM Stereo two channel digital sound.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks!
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