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New to Premiere Pro
As a student (I’m retired from the computer field), I’ve been interested in producing various videos for my own amusement and those of friends. I’ve been working with Pinnacle’s Studio 9 Plus and, although it has many fine features, I’m frustrated by the lack of flexibility. I’ve decided to join the ranks of those who use Premiere Pro.
To join the club, I’ve got to upgrade my computer to use an AMD chip with SSE2 and a new motherboard. I’m not interested in working in HD just yet, so I’m hoping to stay with my inexpensive nVidia card – FX5200 – for now. My DVD burner is the NEC ND3540A and drive space in not a problem. The sound card is a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum.
All of this will require $$$ which I’ve been saving for a while for such an outlay.
My question is:
have I considered all the expenses or have I forgotten anything?
Furthermore, I look upon learning this package as a mental exercise.
Thanks in advance;
Stan
Stan Brager -
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Stan,
Seems like that should cover you for a while. What are your planned system specs?Aanarav Sareen, ACE
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Thanks, Aanarav.
I don’t think I understand your question. Are you asking about the specific motherboard and which AMD chip?
If so, I was thinking of getting the ECS nForce3-A939 board. The model is the ECS nForce3-A939. I chose this board for cost and legacy reasons. I have many applications which run under Win98se and this board supports that OS. It also supports the Athlon 64.
I haven’t decided which model to buy although I’d like to stay under $100 for the CPU while getting the best rendering speed possible. Fortunately, I have lots of patience for program operations which take a long time. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the Athlon 64 lines with many comments made about which design would be best – whatever that means. For me what would be best for the graphics aspect would be my prime consideration.
Thanks;
Stan
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Was asking about the processor speed and the amount of memory in your sytstem. Sorry for not being precise.
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Aanarav;
I’ve just searched Froogle to determine the cost of an Athlon 64 which would be in my price range and it looks as if the winner is the Athlon 64 3200+ which runs at 2.0 gHz although the 3000+ which runs at 1.8 gHz is significantly cheaper. In any event, a minimum of 1 gHz of RAM would complete my system.
It seems that the greatest amount of time to develop a video is in the design and layout of the scenes. The rendering is such a small part of the overall time of a project that an overnight render is no great problem. One trick I’ve learned from Studio is to render small segments and then merge the segments to create a final product. Is this how one works in Premiere Pro?
Stan
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Hmm…I haven’t used Anthlons, but I think that processor speed might be a little too low. Someone who has used these processors may chime in soon.
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The Athlon line isn’t as fast as the Pentium line with hyperthreading which would be preferred. On the other hand, Athlons are much cheaper.
Stan
Stan Brager -
Interesting…. Before I buy my HP multimedia center (Athlon 64, 1 gig ram, NvidiaGE force FX 5200, remote control, 200g hd…ete, etc…) I asked to several computer guru’s and all agree that AMD Athlon 64 is superior for games, video & photo editing.
Remember that when AMD name a 3400mhz this means that this is the correspondence speed according to Intel processors.I recently read an article that said that AMD is now ahead of Intel with the release of the “Dual Core processors”. Technically I don’t know how.
Anyway AMD or Intel, what I need is a trouble free PC. I’m not fanatic of none either…
Mine is rock solid…(so far after 1 year)I have a friend that paid almost 6k for a system from an Integrator co. with a HD array, Matrox 100, parelia? card… dual monitor…etc etc
and finally with have the same results, same DVd quality but I paid $1500 -
Athlons are high performance chips, though AMD has the Opterons which are faster. (I understand Intel has, for the first time, accepted an outside lead and is to build on chip architecture developments initiated with the Opteron.)
High speed discs, including of course a separate AV media drive, or, better, a small RAID, will help data throughput.
Plenty of RAM is good. Of course, you need a decent video (NTSC/PAL) monitor, amplification and speakers so you can see and hear what you are working on …
Overnight renders may drive you nuts. The worst isn’t the waiting: it’s the knock-on effect of inhibiting your creative experimentation.
For an expert editor, it’s a frustration. For a leaner, it puts a severe clamp on your ability to learn by trial and improvement … so speed can be good! On the other hand, a new, fast Athlon with a decent hard disc arrangement and lots of RAM should slice through most DV editing tasks …
It’s great if you can get an affordable system and produce decent results out of it. On the other hand, if it were to slow your learning and you were to produce beginner-style, tedious / unwatchable edits for longer, would that be worth the saving …?
Good luck with it.
What part of the IT industry did you retire from (I’m guessing not chip design!)
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