[Terry Brown]

Hi Stefan,

We went the route of i7 920, 12 Gigs DDR3 ram,9800 graphics 1 gig graphics card.

Works a dream, we do some very complex AE dynamic link to PPro, 3d graphics behind Keyed scenes etc, check out a sample vid on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVNR1zMHK8

This is a fairly basic version of what we do, but gives you a taste and editing this on our system is a dream.

I seriously doubt that we would go back to 3rd party video hardware.

If you have any questions please give me a shout!

Terry

[Terry Brown]

Hi Carlos,

How did you get on with this?

I wondered whether you had considered actually ditching usung a 3rd party edit card? As we did about 2-3 years ago.

We have had a very pleasant experience just using CS3 on PC hardware alone and are upgrading to i7 this week to take it even further.

We have not missed 3rd party hardware (and the extra driver compatibility issues they bring).

I can currently edit 2-3 layers on my laptop (duo 2 core 7700, 4 gigs ram, 256megs 8500gsm grahpics) with only final mastering rendering required. I also live monitor to a 40inch LCD via the laptops HDMI output.

regs

Terry

[Terry Brown]

Hi Eric,

Interesting to hear you don’t have the same issues as we do with Dynamic Link, what video format are you editing in and what spec of PC are you using and OS?

If I could iron out this issue it would save alot of time in post.

Best regs

Terry

[Terry Brown]

Hi,

I’m a CS3 user, so can’t comment yet on CS4. I edit on a Core 2 Duo 2.5 Ghz Laptop, Vista 64 bit with 4 Gigs of RAM, Nvidia 8600m GS 256 megs.

Most of my projects are very complex HDV videos, usualy about 30-50 minutes in length, I have found CS3 PPro to work like a dream on this system. Standard HDV on the timeline playsbacks in realtime with no chop, I can add 2-3 overlays/PIPS with HDV source and it will drop a few frames without rendering but not to the extent that it hinders editing.

It is also quite rare for PPro to crash, or for me to have to reboot the machine. I would say that on average this might happen about twice in a solid week of editing.

The only thing that I don’t like is Dynamic LInk of an AE project into PPro, although its fine at the edit level it takes a terrible amount of time for final exporting.

I find best workflow is to use DL for preview purpose but then render out the composition from AE and import it to premier this is about 20 times quicker than letting PPro do the rendering.

Is CS4 any better?

To summarise I find PPro a very reliable edit system, hope this helps.

Terry