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Turn-key Edit Workstation Suggestions
Hi All,
Our office is switching from Final Cut on G5s to Premiere Pro (being mandated from head office). This switch has been causing a little heartburn with some of our editors. I assured them that for me the switch makes sense because we use After Effects and Photoshop so much that our posting workflow should dramatically improve after the switch.
Their biggest concerns are the crashes and bugs many complain of with Premier Pro and PC products. My response has been that people will often try to run Premier Pro on a sub-par machine and that it
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Also check out Boxx Technologies http://www.boxxtech.com
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High-end HP workstations are widely used and can make stable edit platforms. Dell I’d be more cautious about.
I take it from your post that you’re thinking to edit DV / firewire << no third party hardware >> so most decent machines with 2Gb of RAM, a fast, sizeable data disc e.g. a SATA drive (or RAID) and a basic firewire card should do.
A good graphics accelerator is also probably worth it. Non-standard sound cards can cause conflicts, but a decent Creative card should be plenty good enough.
Other thoughts?
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Open HD and Boxx are very high-end for just DV if that’s all you are editing. Integrators like ProMax can give you pre-builtsystems for DV at around $5,000.00 I’ve used Premiere since 5.1, both with and without hardware accelerators. I’ve used FCP as well. I’ve had crashing on both, but not much. And, quite frankly, unless you’ve homebuilt a really quirky system, I’ve found Premiere (since ver. 6.0)and the PC platform to be as stable as FCP.
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You don’t need to overspend on a specially built editing workstation. I edit and encode digital video and make DVCAM masters on a weekly basis, not to mention doing DVD authoring and other graphic design work, and I am still using a two year old Dell P4 desktop computer (and Dell laptop as well) with an inexpensive firewire card, some external hard drives and the simple video card that came with the computer. Save yourself some money and get a fast P4 or new dual core pc from a major manufacturer and you are in business. Use the savings to buy a deck or some software if you need it.
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