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If you were building a new system….
I want to edit HDV and HD on Ppro CS4 and burn to Blu-ray on CS4. I’d like to be able to run 2 streams of HDV with Color correction (Magic Bullet/Synthetic Ap/Colorista) and run in real-time without rendering. Help me out and let me know what specs you’d build on a PC.
Heres what I’m thinking:
i7 920 Processor
9 GB DDR3
NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH MY GRAPHICS CARD! HELP!
1 TB SATA
BlackMagic card for HDMI Monitor output
USB 3.0 Port and WD MyBook 3.0 1TB ExternalWhaddaya think?
Zack
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Avid Express V 5.6
HP Compaq nw8440
2 GB Ram
Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz -
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You need to keep your RAM increments properly matched to still be using tri-channel RAM. This means you have to go from 6GB to 12GB; you can’t do 9GB, you’ll actually have poorer performance than 6GB if you do. Go with 12GB. As for the video card, it really depends on what you have to spend. If not a whole lot, (like a couple-three hundred for the video card itself) then go with a regular 3D card like an ATI Radeon HD 5770 ($150-$160) or Radeon HD 5850 ($300) but if you can drop some serious coin, like $600+, then go with a workstation graphics card. (the Fire line by ATI, like FirePro, FireGL, etc. or the Quadro line by NVIDIA)
If you still want to have good gaming performance on this machine, not JUST video editing performance, you’ll want to get a high-end 3D card not a workstation one.
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