[Jeremiah Belt]

Yup that’s pretty much what I thought, I just recalled hearing some talk around the DeckLink booth at NAB this year about Avid X Pro HD so I was curious. And I would probably build a PC Dual Opteron or something and run Premiere Pro through a bluefish card or decklink (4:4:4 Uncomp 10bit 1080P!!!). I would rather stick with a pc for versatility reasons..and my home system which is only a 3.2 GHZ P4 (overclocked to 3.5) is much faster in editing, graphics and 3d then the Dual G5 2Ghz I used to use at work.(I ran some crossplatform benchmarks and from just utilizing the software. Thanks for all the Avid input.

[Jeremiah Belt]

Thanks for the input! Here is a question that I am going to pose to Avid but maybe you can help me with. With this Media Composer’s age and all it seems to me if I built a fancy workstation added a DeckLink or Bluefish 10bit HD card to it and purchased Avid Express Pro HD with Mojo utilizing the same 10K Ultra Wide 320 SCSI RAID I would have a system that would rival this one and be future proof easily? What is your opinion on that. Because the Xpress Pro HD bundle seems to offer far more features then this old Hardware Meridean system does and with the Mojo and 10bitHD card (Digital SDI and BNC with Genlock) it would be able to push Higher quality 10bit Uncompressed SD in realtime without breaking a sweat.

[Jeremiah Belt]

Thanks for the info! Do you think it will work with Hyper Threaded Pentium 4 Cpu’s and not the Xeons? Xeons are still ludicrously pricey. Thanks