What PC specs do you advice for some movie editing?

**Jakke PNG** · 05-02-2003, 07:41 AM

I have p4 1.6 with 512 mb ram, and I do ok. I'd suspect the more ram the better, also a big-ass hd.

**ezcash** · 05-02-2003, 07:55 AM

I think you should buy a DELL pc with a intel processor!that's enough.

**whoreans** · 05-02-2003, 07:58 AM

what does dell gotta do wit movie editing? i thought Mac's were built to do that kinda stuff.

**Machete_** · 05-02-2003, 08:05 AM

Originally posted by justsexxx
Hi,

I wanna buy a new PC, with RAID controllers and such, because I'm as scared as hell one HDD will crash one day:-)

I like to do some movie editing as well, I'm not a real pro(yet) but I like it...

So I want a PC that is great for office work, but as well for some easy movie editing.(DV movie tapes--->nice avi's,mpegs)

What do you advice me? AMD or INTEL? And dual? or is single processor enough? 1GB ram? Videocard important?

Thnx

Andre

do you want dedicated movie boardsets to do the encoding, or just use the CPU power.
Most movieboardsets are optimised for Intel CPU's (I dont like it but thats the way it is) so Intell is a MUST if you want dedicated hardware encoding.

If you just run standart CPU encoding, I would Buy a Dual CPU TYAN motherboard ("Tiger" series) and use AMD Cpu's they preform the best.

If you still want to go with Intell, I would spend the extra cash and buy Xeon Cpu's

Take a look at www.digitalvideoediting.com they have some test of lowend systems as well

**justsexxx** · 05-02-2003, 09:01 AM

Originally posted by ebus_dk

do you want dedicated movie boardsets to do the encoding, or just use the CPU power.
Most movieboardsets are optimised for Intel CPU's (I dont like it but thats the way it is) so Intell is a MUST if you want dedicated hardware encoding.

If you just run standart CPU encoding, I would Buy a Dual CPU TYAN motherboard ("Tiger" series) and use AMD Cpu's they preform the best.

If you still want to go with Intell, I would spend the extra cash and buy Xeon Cpu's

Take a look at www.digitalvideoediting.com they have some test of lowend systems as well

I think I go for the hardware editing....I will take a look at the site, thnx

Andre

**Plugger** · 05-02-2003, 10:01 AM

Go with dual Xeons, movie editing is processor intensive, and most editing software is often optimized for dual processors. 1GB of memory should be plenty.

**justsexxx** · 05-02-2003, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by Plugger
Go with dual Xeons, movie editing is processor intensive, and most editing software is often optimized for dual processors. 1GB of memory should be plenty.

Yeah dual is cool:D

**buddyjuf** · 05-02-2003, 03:25 PM

no need for dual if you ask me,
just get a P4 2.6
with some 1 gig of ram (DDR of course)
and 2X 120 gig harddrives for raid

u should be set

What PC specs do you advice for some movie editing?

What PC specs do you advice for some movie editing?

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