John Hong
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For what you need now, really, any of those NLE’s will be fine. Heck, throw Avid Liquid into the mix, it might prove to be a better buy simply cause it is a fully integrated solution (including audio and dvd authoring). But the future?
I mean its easy to get a solution that will suit you right now…but for some, you might also ask, will it be suitable for the future when I’m looking for potential post production work. Is editing something that you intend to do? Do you plan to look for work as an editor? If so, then Avid Xpress would be the way to go. Once you get the interface down, understanding the Avid workflow when going from offline to online to the bigger Avid’s is a pretty smooth transition. Generally, there’s just more work available for Avid editors (FCP is also getting a lot of attention these days). The market for PPro, Vegas, and Ulead just isn’t very big, at least, not yet.
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Adobe is really giving it a go. But I still can’t believe Adobe hasn’t put in low-res capture on any footage like the way Avid or Final Cut can. Sony and Ulead also don’t have that…I mean, is it THAT difficult?
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I’m actually running Xpress Pro on a Biostar iDeq 210V, which is a XPC clone. Mine is an Athlon XP model. Xpress Pro works fine, at least on mine. I’ve also ran Xpress Pro on a Shuttle XPC SK43G model (another Athlon XP model). It’s really about the spec’s I guess. Just make sure that you’re close to the Avid recommended spec’s. I’ve got Nvidia graphic cards in both my XPC’s (5200 & 6200), both CPU’s are running over 1.8 Ghz (Athlon XP 2800 runs at 2.0 Ghz and a Athlon XP 3000 runs at 2.16 Ghz), and both machines have over 1.5 GB of RAM. Both of these XPC’s in particular use a VIA chipset. The onboard firewire card is also using a VIA chipset, so both of my XPC’s have an ADS BasicDV PCI firewire card in it (but really any Texas Instrument firewire chipset should do). All in all, if it’s just Xpress DV, then it should run just fine.
Nice little boxes that are guarenteed converstation starters. 🙂
Do you know what the spec’s are for this MusicXPC you’re looking at?
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If using USB2, it’s a good idea to switch from optimize for quick removal to optimize for speed. This prevents the USB2 lag down. You won’t be able to just unplug the drive, though. You’d need to click on the safe removal icon in the taskbar.