Help me to decide

[Vince Becquiot]

Just not sure why you are sticking to HP 🙂

In all seriousness, I’ve had some very mixed feelings about HP PCs over the years, especialy Pavillions.

I sure wish they used the same designers who worked on their Ipaqs (Although that was Compaq at the time)

I would look into Alienware if I was to buy for Video editing. It might cost you a bit more, but from trying different brand over the years, I would not go back to anything else. Of course that’s a personal choice…

And BTW, I would look very carefully at their LCD monitors. They are very cheaply made, and a very bad choice if you plan on using them for any kind of video preview.

Not a HP hater, just had to fix a few too many 😉

Vince

[Aanarav Sareen]

Neither. If you plan on using After Effects, then I would reccomend upgrading your RAM and getting a better graphics card. Also, based on Adobe’s product requirement history, I doubt that this computer will serve you till the next versions.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Hector Melendez]

Humm, interesting. I presently have less power in a Athlon 64, 1gig ram Pc and PP2 works flawlessly.
The botton line question is: Does PP2 utilize Intel or AMD dual processor power??

Will like to know before purchase… I rarely use After Affects.
Thanks for any advise

[Vince Becquiot]

I agree, with the last post as well, but it all depends on your use of PP2. In the very near future, you may be required to work with 720, or even 1080 HD. At that point, you will notice your PC’s real capabilities. Let’s add about 50 High rez images, and your HP will likely slow to a crawl. And that’s just Premiere… After Effect will require even more processing power with HD. But hey, you get what you pay for 🙂

Vince

[Hector Melendez]

That means that all people will throw all computers to the trash??? Or the developers have to deal with the actual computer power?.
That means that dual processors AMD or Pentium will not work with HD?
I don’t understand.
ALl techs I have asked to help me to select the best processor brand, all coincided in AMD.

Anyway, today I bought a HP media center with 4200+ AMD Athlon 64 dual core(3.6 pentium equiv.) 1gig ram, 250 hd and all whisles media center have… with a 19″ LCD monitor for just $1000

If a same HP machine but 3.4+ is working without hazle with PP2 then I suppose this will perform the same or better……….
Will lets you know how it works in the next days
Thanks for all.

[Gary Taylor]

Hi Hector,
I think the point is while the system you are talking about may be fast enough for DV, but is isn’t a workstation. You can’t expect a consumer PC to be able to perform the same a real workstation capable of high definition.

A true workstation class computer has enough PCI-X/PCI-e slot to accommodate a high end graphics card and an HD-SDI capture card. If you plan to work with uncompressed HD you will also have find a way to deal with the massive storage requirements for 1080i or 720p. Most current worstations are able to be upgraded to 4 cores and 16 or more GB or RAM. In short if that is in your future you will have to buy a new system.

I like that HP system you bought though. I was thinking about buying one as an HDV ingest system. How is it working out for you?
Gary