Hello Brandon! OLD Canopus man here!

[HotVidMan]

Hello,

Just when you thought that HotVidMan had died and gone to editing heaven . . . . . . . . .

Hope you don't mind my contacting you this way, I no longer have your contact info. Glad to see some OLD TIMERS still around here! I had a question for you that I figured you would be best to answer. I am considering an upgrade to my OLD Canopus system.


It is a system that Core MicroSystems had built for me back in 2000. I am running dual 850s Pentium IIIs with the DVRexRT card and the old Xplode card on a SuperMicro 440 BX motherboard and Windows Pro 2000. I have a raid in an extra full tower with four 80 gig drives for video and one 80 gig for system. I was thinking about getting into Edius FINALLY and I understand that I will not be able to do it with the motherboard I have or the Win Pro 2000.

What is my best upgrade path? What if anything can I use of the old system (that is still working magic everyday)? I have even thought about jumping ship after SSOOO many years of Canopus to Vegas (don't really like what I have seen though) or Mac with Final Cut Pro. Yeah, I never thought I would say that either! I still think I would be happier with my old friend Canopus though. Can I just get a new computer with new motherboard and WinXP Pro and throw a bunch of this old stuff into it and add Edius? I also want to be able to go directly to DVD too.

Thanks and glad to see that you are still hanging in there! :dankk2:

[bhiga]

Hi Jim,

It's nice to get a blast from the past. The Canopus forums have "evolved" a number of times since the black-and-green days...

The best upgrade path would be to leave your current system as-is, especially if it's working. Maybe put EDIUS version 3 on it. I can't guarantee EDIUS version 4 will work on it, as the DVRex-RT series isn't officially supported with EDIUS version 4.

Unless you have a builder in mind, I'd seriously look at our FLX turnkeys - go to the Canopus website, then How to Buy, then choose Americas, click Direct from Canopus, Shop Online on the right, then NLE Systems on the left, then finally EDIUS Turnkey Solutions on the left (whew!).

The FLX turnkeys are great systems, well-built, and priced competitively to a "build your own" scenario.

It'd be a lot less time and headache versus trying to retrofit the old system. That's my opinion, at least... but I do have to admit that I've been having a string of computer problems at home that have made me really disillusioned about technology lately.

Brandon

[ChuckS]

Jim,

I recently went through a similar upgrade decision. I had a RexRTPro running on an AMD machine, the system was rock solid.

I ended up selling it because in order to upgrade to Edius it required upgrading to Windows XP. So I purchased a completely different system and over time I used the RexRTPro less and less.

My system was built by DV-Line, they were great but it seems that the relationship between them and Canopus has changed. But nevertheless, DV-Line had great support.