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Desktop HD editing advice?
Just wanted to run these specs by you all to get thoughts on whether they would work as a good, versatile editing set up for a smaller operation… I’ll be editing in Premiere CS3 with a lot of After Effects work and will be dealing with mostly HD footage (usually a mixture of DVCPRO HD and HDV).
Computer:
HP workstation xw8600
two Intel Dual-Core Xeon x5260 / 3.33GHz
8GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
two 500 GB internal SATA-300 7200rpm
Windows Vista Enterprise (don’t have much of a choice here)
Already have the monitorsI’ve been working on a HP laptop (9440) which has been fine for short SD projects, but when we jumped into HD work, I seem to crash Premiere on a regular basis. Any info or thoughts would be great since editing with HD is pretty new for me.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
smScott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com -
2 Replies
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Instead of X52xx CPU’s, consider E54xx CPU’s, the Harpertown, preferably the E5472. Check that the mobo has the Intel 5400 chipset (Seaburg). Add some more disks to your system, get a good raid controller (Areca) and you should be fine.
Harm Millaard
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Thanks for the reply, Harm… I appreciate it.
Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
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