Tilford Bartman
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The Asus P6T6 Revoultion motherboard has 6 PCIe slots. It has no PCI. It also has no onboard firewire so if you plan to use that you need a firewire card. I have this board with an i7 920 running at 3.6 and 12 gigs of ram. So far it runs excellent.
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The entire 64bit thing has been more of a pain than I would have thought it would be and it’s not over. I think premiere is still not native 64bit, and I think Windows 7 is coming faster than people thought. I almost think people would be better off staying with CS3 and waiting for CS5 full 64bit on Windows 7. It’s probably only a year and a half or something away. Matrox has RTx2 drivers for CS4 on 64 bit Vista, but if you look into it you see that they have lots of issues. It’s seems to be like your almost a beta tester. So who really needs that. Canopus Edius works well on 64 bit vista, and they have a simple “spark” card that aslo works well for viewing your time line on an HDMI monitor. They’re stuff all works rather flawlessly, but you have to do with Edius NLE software. Edius does excellent fast real time with Canopus codec without any need for hardware assist, but the software is not as feature rich as Premiere and you don’t have all the interaction with Photoshop and After Effects. The Edius interface isn’t the best in my opinion and it takes a little while to figure some things out.
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Over the long haul I’d say that some releases of Premiere have been better than others, but here have been a few real dogs. I had 6.5 and CS2 running quite well. CS3 wasn’t great for me, and as I remember it was 1.0 or 1.5 that really stank. CS4 I just have running now in a trial version without any hardware or plug ins. Generally I think a lot of people in PC land have had difficulty running premiere stable, and maybe that’s been the biggest complaint. Feature wise I think it’s gotten pretty good, and I’m ok with the interface. I don’t have any experience with Final Cut, but I think Vegas, Avid, Liquid Edition, Edius, all run more stable. Edius is rock solid and has great real time with their Canopus codec, but not the features of Premiere and I don’t like the interface as much. I ran Avid with the Mojo for a while, and it was quite stable, but it wasn’t easy to figure out how to use. Liquid was like Edius in that it didn’t have all the features but it had background rendering that really worked pretty nice, and it was pretty stable, and came with a break out box for viewing the time line on an external monitor. It really was a pretty nice and rather inexpensive setup.
I really hope that CS4 will prove a decent release and will work well in 64 bit Vista. I really hope that people like Blackmagic Design, Cineform, and Matrox will be able to get some decent products working well in CS4 64 bit Vista. Right now as far as I can tell Grass Valley/Canopus have Edius 5 and the Spark card working really well in 64 bit Vista. It runs today like a work horse. They also just released Firecoder Blue which works in 64bit Vista, and does hardware encoding/transcoding. Right now as far as I can tell Grass Valley/Canopus have the best set of products working well in 64 bit Vista? You just have to be ok with Edius and working largely with the Canopus codec.
Tilford Bartman
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Your setup is basically fine in that there’s nothing there that shouldn’t work or cause problems. But personally I’d setup something substantially different.
I’d go with an Intel i7 920 or 940 processor, with 6 or 8 gigs of DDR3 1600 Ram. For a motherboard I’d go with either ASUS P6T Deluxe or ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution. The revolution is great if you need a lot of PCIe slots. Only I think it doesn’t have firewire on the MB but you can get a little firewire card for next to nothing. It’s no bid deal really. I see no need for a Quadro Video Card in Premiere. They are expensive and you can get a GEFORCE 260 with 896 of RAM for substantially less and it will do well in Premiere,and will overall be a better card. It’s Open GL performance for Premiere is more than adequate. The system I describe would be my bias but what you’ve outlined is also fine. Your dual quad xeon’s I assume would out perform the a single quad i7, but I think it wouldn’t be by much. You can easily run the I7 920 at 3.2 with stock fan, and with a little better air cooler you can run it very stable for video editing at at least 3.5, and it has some new technology on the chip from Intel that makes it scream.
Good Luck.
Tilford Bartman
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If Blackmagic and Cineform can get Intensity and Prospect HD fully functional in 64 bit Vista with Premiere CS4, I will be them right away.
Tilford Bartman