[Jason Harvey]

I’ve also been considering what to get with my budget restraints…

I’ve been using FCP 5.1.4 Sony HDV (1440x1080i) ona Dual G5 w/ 4GB of Ram…
before I only had 2GB and I felt the playback was suffering from too many drop frames.
4GBs fixed that….but like they said…the render times make me wanna go drinking for a while.
Most of the work I’ve been doing is for web…I’m firewire all the way! so I havent even got a capture card yet, since I dont need to view a HD monitor (though it would be nice)…
–I would like one that would take some of the load off the CPU though…too bad I just dont have 2500 bux.

[Jason Harvey]

FInal Cut. After Effects. Photoshop. Period.

[Jason Harvey]

Thanks! Thats what I thought…
I’d still have to move everything to the other machine…
Sounds like a BIG waste of time there.

That brings me to my next question…
(and I know there are alot of these questions on here and I have been reading up)
…but heres what I need to know….and excuse me for being long winded…

I would like to increase the speed on rendering/export times.
I know I need another drive for media since that seems to be a big “No-No” to have everything on the system drive.
**I’m thinking of asking for either a Firewire 800 G-raid or some sort of eSATA drive.

These HDV projects I’m editing/compressing are for the WEB – not BROADCAST – so Im not sure if what I want to get will be overkill…
**But would it help if I got a new card like a Kona3 or BlackMagic to help take some of the load off the CPU during export/render times? –
The thing is…I dont really need all the outputs since this isnt even going to tape (as of now)…

I’m running a Dual G5
4GB ram

My other thought would be just to load all this HDV footage in as DV. Would that cut down on export times since its less pixels? (I’m really trying to embrace the HDV format) but if its gonna help me crank out and crunch these down any faster…then I really dont care.

any thoughts?…anyone…anyone…Thanks again…I feel like I’m starting to live in these forums.

-Jason