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Then this guys and what I thought might work well with HD and DV editing. Let me know what you think. Thank.
Operating System : English Windows ® 7 Professional (64bit OS) to Windows 64bit XP Professional (downgrade) with xp
Microsoft software: English Microsoft # &174; Office 2007 basic (word, Excel, Outlook) with Recovery CD
Processor: One Intel ® Xeon ® processor w3540 (2.93 GHZ,8MB L3, 4.8GT / s,130w,Qc) memory runs at 1066MHz
Graphics card: Two 512mb nvidia quadro fx580 – 2 dp, 1dvi (1DP-dvi,1dvi-vga adapter) (elga12)
Memory: 6GB DDR3 1066MHz ECC-UDIMM (3x2GB)
Hard drive partitioning :Custom Hard Drive Partition – 40GB Primary / Rest Logical
RAID Connectivity: C1 all SATA hard drives, Non RAID for 1 hard drive
Disk controller: No optional SAS controller card
Hard Drive: 1.5TB (7200rpm) SATA 3.0GB / s hard drives with NCQ and 16MB DataBurst Cache ™
Optical Drive: 16x DVD-ROM drive and 16x DVD + /-RW drive with Roxio and PowerDVD media included
Sound Cards: ™ Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium sound card
Floppy / Media Drives: Integrated media card reader
Hi everyone,im a first timer on video editing. I got my old computer refurnished and to say the true it wasnt worth it. Am out looking for a good reliant system for dv to hdv editing and not forgetting good for the pocket. I was thinking about The Dell Precision T3500. What do you guyz think. Ps Am living in italy
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Hi and welcome to the club.
If i were you, at starter level for hd (hdv i think…the more complex formats come at a larger price for the camera, and the pc hardware, like fast hdd, even SSD-s which are expensive if you’re just starting out), I would invest in a raid 1 with two 500GB Spinpoint Samsung HDDs (32 mb buffer) for the operating system and scratch disks. Then a 1 TB storage.
Its a bit overkill with 2x nvidia quadro-s, better yet just a quado fx 1800.
Again, the processor is overkill, but if you have the budget, wohoo for you:)
You didn’t mention the motherboard.
Sound Card, i would suggest anything on usb from m-audio or tascam. its recommended that even for entry-level audio mastering, correcting(such as adding gain, or eq), you should have an external sound card, a dedicated hardware that outperforms internal soundcards, because this way you eliminate noise created inside the pc, such as electronic chatter, and you have a wider rage of expansion for recording and output of your sound with more professional input/outputs.
Make sure the system is well ventilated, invest in a big case with lots of fans included in the price.
The Brand desktops are quite expensive and don’t offer much for beginners, and even for the more experienced. Except 24/7 support, which isn’t quite 24/7….
Well, that is my advice, kind of long, kind of strange, but that-s my experience.
Merry Christmas,
Sebastian Plamadeala
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