The Ultimate Video Computer

VidJockey wrote on 3/27/2002, 6:20 PM
Just thought I would pose a question to the forum about what YOU think would be the ultimate home PC for Video Editing, Authoring, Capture, etc.. Nothing unrealistic , like some kind of Hollywood setup. Just a system that an avid home Video nut, like most of the Vegas bunch would benefit from. It can be home built or just a good commercial setup you know of. Think about Analog Capture, Digital Capture, Rendering efficiency, compatibility, and reliability. What kind of Video Card, Hard Drive (IDE or SCSI), Capture Card, Processor (AMD or Intel), Burner (DVD-R/RW or DVD+RW), and Sound Card would be the best for you?

My Ultimate system would be a Pentium 4 2.2 Ghz home built machine, Full size tower with DVD-ROM, HP 100i DVD+RW, at least 512MB Ram, 2 100 GB 7200RPM Western Digital HDs (IDE, I don't really understand SCSI?!?!), All In Wonder Radion 8500DV Card, Sound Blaster Audigy Internal with front panel input jacks, 19inch Monitor, Sony Digital 8 Camera, and of course VEGAS VIDEO!!!

VidJockey

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EArrigotti wrote on 3/27/2002, 10:07 PM
I'd add dual monitors (LCD) on a GeForce Dual monitor video card. I can never go back to one now. One monitor I use for the app, the other I use for all the tool panels and preview. It rocks! Also works well for audio (i.e. Sonar and graphics stuff)

The LCD monitors reduce eyestrain, are less bulky, and look COOL!

Let's keep dreaming. It's a nice thing to do.
David_Kuznicki wrote on 3/27/2002, 10:13 PM
I'm still looking for a good, reasonably priced ($500-ish or less) soundcard. Looking at the OmniStudio (a Delta 66 w/ a breakout box) at the moment. I'm looking for something with low noise, a couple (2 or 4) XLR's, and preferably records 24 bit. Any thoughts? Help would be most appreciated!

Many thanks,
David.
HeeHee wrote on 3/27/2002, 11:02 PM
Anyone know if VV utilizes dual processing? If so, I would add a Dual processor motherboard with the new Intel Prestonia Hyperthreading Xeon processors. They act like two CPU's and bring a Dual CPU system board up to 4 CPUs on XP systems.

I would also use Ultra 160 SCSI RAID with at least 3 largest capacity hard drives available to improve performace. An NVidia Geforce 4 video card wouldn't be bad either.

1 Gig of RAM would be nice.

DV.Com recommends MiniDV cameras over Digital 8 so I'm heading in that direction.
ramallo wrote on 3/28/2002, 4:02 AM
Hello,

Try with the RME DIGI 96/8 PST plus AE4/I (Four balanced inputs)

www.rme-audio.de

Bye
Jsnkc wrote on 3/30/2002, 4:15 PM
I recently asked myself this same question cause I was looking to build a Home PC for Video Editing. Not sure if this will help anyone...but this is what I put together and it works great. I used a MSI K7T266 Pro 2 motherboard with RAID and an AMD Athlon XP 1600 processor. I run Windows XP Home edition. I put in 512MB of PC2100 DDR SDRAM. 3 Maxtor 40GB 7200 RPM Hard Drives. ATI All In Wonder 7500 So you can use one monitor...or set up a 2 monitor system. I prefer the Pioneer A-03 DVD Burner...but you can use whatever one you want. I use Vegas Video for capturing and editing. DVDit PE, and DVD Maestro for authoring DVD's.
Once I got everything put together and worked out a few kinks everything works great with this system..I love it. I also use a Panasonic PV-DV100 Mini DV Camcorder for shooting video.
Jsnkc wrote on 3/30/2002, 4:17 PM
Vegas Will support dual processors..as long as you use an operating system that supports them...Windows 2000 or XP professional edition.