Any Recommendations On Computers For Editing Videos?
 

looking to edit videos, any reco's on computers for editing and storing videos? Something fast, and reliable

Please list computers or companies you would recommend.

Or if you know any places to read up on video editing systems, fully packaged, not looking to build anything, would like a system already built and meant for editing

Get a Mac and Final Cut Pro and you'll be set.

yepper macs rule for video editing,
and thats about it.

mac and lots of ram and hd space. i dont like macs, but this case calls for a mac.

Any hardware will do as long as you set it up right..

Also if you need input/output capability (consumer or pro) you will need some additional hardware. Most used ones today DV based systems. Or you may go to DVCPro or D-BETACAM but those are used for post production studios or tv stations because of the signal levels or color spearation systems for them.

In your case I would recomend working with DV using Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme. It's really impressive as for the capabilites. You would pay at least 100k for a system 4-5 years ago which has the half of the capability.

Also check Digital Video Editing for some reviews & information.

:)

I use high powered Win XP machines for my video editing and it works fine, sometimes it does get a bit slow when editing large files. But are the Macs limited to what format video they output? I mean do they output Window media player files?? How do you go about moving those files from mac to PC? I mean if I edited with a mac and then moved them to a PC for website design etc is it possible to just network over from mac to pc? transfer the files easy or do you have to do everything on the mac and then upload it from that mac to the server??

Dunno, I have 5 machines here I use for video work and there a nightmare enough to keep undercontrol, i'd hate to have to add a Mac problem into the mix.

Do any of you have any experience with using PC's and then trying the MAC's for the same thing? Is it really that much better? How much better?

The one thing I can't do right now is get Cleaner XL to take VOB files ripped off dvds directly. It seems to want me to reencode the vob down to a avi and then it accepts it. And vegas 4 can't handle vobs of 5.6 gigs.

get yourself a dual xeon with like a gig of ram, a scisi hd and a
matrox video editing card. the card will be the most expensive
thing (it's like $1200 for the card, all software, breakout box)
but you'll be able to pretty much mimic your local news station.

with that matrox card you can do cool shit like impose
backgrounds over moving images (people) and view everything
in real time without any rendering

check out the real time chroma key in the video demo below

http://www.matrox.com/media/video/rt...me_demo_hi.wmv

The card is the Matrox RTX100,

http://www.matrox.com/video/products...treme/home.cfm

it ain't cheap, but if you're thinking of some hardcore editing,
thats the shit you should get.

woah, that was sweet.

:) Only Dual MAC G4-G5,
"23" HD Cinema Display with
Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro.

Hey Luc can you email or icq me

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icq 260976100

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I want to ask you a few things if you dont mind

We can help you with your video editing if you don't want to bear the hardware expense and learning curve. However if you do make sure you get at least:
1GBRAM
P4/Athalon
2 80+GBHD 7200RPM MIN
Matrox is not necessary but if you can afford it do it. There are other cards that are adequate.