I need to purchase a Video editing computer for the company I work for. We do a light amount of corporate video work that we'll use this machine to edit for. We have approximatley a $7,000 budget for hardware & software. We're leaning more towards a PC platform than MAC. Any suggestions?
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Help design a dream Video Editing Machine - $7,000 budget
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Gamingphreek
Lifer
If you are only doing a light amount of video editing there is no need to throw away $7000.
What exactly are you going to be using this for before i spec a system out.
-Kevin
What exactly are you going to be using this for before i spec a system out.
-Kevin
JackBurton
Lifer
Just get a SGI computer. lololol
It is the premade computer for A/V and graphic artists hands down. Design especially for that line of work and even broadcasting.
If you want to build a custom one, think out of the desktop variety (it won't be a gamer rig as you'll move into speciality computer). That's SCSI, and a Quantro Pro video card.
ADDED: Linky to the creme de creme of graphic computing -- http://www.sgi.com/
Any artist's and Illustrator's dream computers....drooooool
Gamingphreek
Lifer
What!?
Also Jack we dont know what he is doing. He said he is doing so light encoding... that is all we know. Why does he need the most expensive highest end board on the market.
-Kevin
JackBurton
Lifer
All I know is that he is doing video editing and he has a $7000 budget. Let me tell you, when a company gives you a certain amount for a budget, you spend EVERY penny of it. Now if it was his money, my recommendation would be much more conservative.
SunSamurai
Diamond Member
Get a dual cpu mac a huge ass cinima display and final cut pro.
Sorry. Some more information.
Most of the work we do is shooting footage in MiniDV and then importing into the PC. We've been doing some editing with Adobe Premiere and are pretty comfortable with that software so we're leaning towards purchasing the Adobe suite again. However, if the learning curve isn't too tough we're open to moving in a different direction.
Once the video is edited we typically will either burn copies to DVD or output to VHS.
Will also occasionally do some web design/development on the PC but that's not what it's primarily for.
Most of the work we do is shooting footage in MiniDV and then importing into the PC. We've been doing some editing with Adobe Premiere and are pretty comfortable with that software so we're leaning towards purchasing the Adobe suite again. However, if the learning curve isn't too tough we're open to moving in a different direction.
Once the video is edited we typically will either burn copies to DVD or output to VHS.
Will also occasionally do some web design/development on the PC but that's not what it's primarily for.
SunSamurai
Diamond Member
Being comfortable with software and ignoreing _better_ software is a practice of failed buisness
there's lots of useful info here
http://www.videoguys.com/
I built a system for a friend of mine recently based on a matrox RTX.100 card with the Adobe Premier Bundle and he's very happy with it (we did get a card with a faulty 1394 port but Matrox replaced it pretty quickly)
do a google search on "DV NLE Systems" (i.e Digital Video Near-Line Edit Systems) to get more info on products and vendors
http://www.videoguys.com/
I built a system for a friend of mine recently based on a matrox RTX.100 card with the Adobe Premier Bundle and he's very happy with it (we did get a card with a faulty 1394 port but Matrox replaced it pretty quickly)
do a google search on "DV NLE Systems" (i.e Digital Video Near-Line Edit Systems) to get more info on products and vendors
For video editing, you probably want to lean towards the Mac direction, since Final Cut Pro and Motion are probably the best editing and motion graphics software out there for that price point. You can do about the same thing with Adobe's software, but the Mac software is a bit nicer as far as the ease of use. Also, if you are doing a lot of After Effects work, switching to Motion will most likely up your productivity somewhat due to the ability of the Mac OS to apply filters and effects in real time, so you don't have to spend a lot of extra time rendering previews while you tweak your graphics. Motion can even do particle effects in real time. When the next version of the Mac OS (Tiger) is released later this year, it will include a new graphics system called Core Image that will allow their software to offload even MORE of the video work to the GPU (if you have a DX9-level card).
Windows will eventually be able to do some of the same things with their upcoming Avalon graphics system, but that is not expected to be released until 2006 and you may not see large scale integration of Avalon with third party apps like After Effects until 2007. Until then, Windows simply lacks the display architecture to allow the graphics card to accelerate video work like the Mac OS can.
Windows will eventually be able to do some of the same things with their upcoming Avalon graphics system, but that is not expected to be released until 2006 and you may not see large scale integration of Avalon with third party apps like After Effects until 2007. Until then, Windows simply lacks the display architecture to allow the graphics card to accelerate video work like the Mac OS can.
If you're making an Adobe box, it's best to get a Mac (Apple) computer. It's Adobe's native environment. It'll handle that level of work well, and is native for print shops too.
And now I can see why you have a $7000 budget, especially if you're going to buy a suite of any Adobe products!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Adobe's relationship with Apple cooled a bit after Apple started stepping on their toes with Final Cut Pro and then added insult to injury with Motion, a direct After Effects competitor. Because of this, it seems that lately Adobe has been courting the Windows crowd more, as their Mac audience is dwindling. In fact, from what I've read, Photoshop seems to run fastest on a Athlon 64/Win XP Pro platform nowadays.
Politics aside, until the print industry accepts using PCs, Adobe will be solely in Mac's (Apple) corner. It's one market adamantly Mac (another purist market. Purist+purist+purists=$$$$$$$$$ relationship). Unlike other industries print shops can't just change their equipment every couple of years, they stock incredibly expensive equipment (like a drum scanner costing $50,000). They're stuck. All three know this and have a parasitic relationship -- which they pass on down to the end consumer.
It's why I did my pasteups at home by hand. They charged too much just for a simple low run 4 color process. :|
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