Optimum hardware for editing

[Nightwalker]

Hello to all,

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Ok. You've hvx200.
Now you just put the footage to your computer.
Now you want to edit it, make color corrections, some heavy dust editing ( not just cut and glue ).
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Problem starts here. What should i need to properly, easily, fastly edit the footage? ( I mean performance with the word "easily".

So i'll kindly request from you to write me really necessary parts to do this.

A mac or a PC
Quad or Dual cpu
Memory
Extra Hardware ( external & internal )

Currently i am unable to even simply color correct footages which are even not in HD. I am unable to try and see if i can reach to my imaginations or to try myself. Because it's too slow, everything slows down, program freezes, comes back, scrubbing is very slow and bad, playing back is almost impossible. almost 0.5fps! Even exporting a few seconds in any format is a headache and takes so much time!

I used premiere pro with a desktop P4 3ghz 1gbram. and with a laptop 1.83ghz pentium M 1gb ram.

I'll be glad if you can give me computer specifications. Whatever you want. Maybe a laptop or a desktop. But no studio decks please (:

Thanks for your nice comments and concern.

Kind Regards,
Nightwalker ( whaaaaoooo (: )

[hvx_germanboy]

search a little on the forum here, there are different ways to be pleased...!

I personally prefer PC, there is RAYLIGHT if you wanna stick with premiere...i personally like and use EDIUS BROADCAST, try the 30trial from canopus.com i am sure you will like it, you can cc your footage edit, and all works native with great performance...!

If you like it a bit more unbiased, search this forum!

[MrVideo]

Apple and Panasonic have worked very tightly on Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 to make the P2 import flawless. Apple realizes they need to support almost every camera and codec out there to be the edit suite you would want to use.

Not to be a snob, and also not denegrating the capabilities of other editing software, AVID and Final Cut Pro are really the only ones that have any professional creditability. Just try to take your EDIUS or VEGAS, etc editing experience and sell your self to another post house. :thumbsup:

[David Saraceno]

I can edit DVCProHD footage on a $1099 MacBook (not pro) in FCP 5.1.2.

We have a MacPro 2.66 Quad with 5 GBs of RAM and four internal SATA drives.

ACD 30-inch display.

Couldn't ask for anything else.

Expect more performance come NAB 2007

[erdiaz]

DV Rack HD, Premiere pro 2.0, Cineform's Aspect HD, Magic Bullet, plus a decent PC (pentium core Duo or Turion Based, 2 GB Ram, Nvidia FX quadro Video card, twin monitors, and a couple Sata raid 0 HDs)

[hvx_germanboy]

Apple and Panasonic have worked very tightly on Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 to make the P2 import flawless. Apple realizes they need to support almost every camera and codec out there to be the edit suite you would want to use.

Not to be a snob, and also not denegrating the capabilities of other editing software, AVID and Final Cut Pro are really the only ones that have any professional creditability. Just try to take your EDIUS or VEGAS, etc editing experience and sell your self to another post house. :thumbsup:

I politely disagree on this (as i use Edius..ha haa!), maybe Apple works on the support, but its still not native, i dont know about the support for all the framerates in pal-countries(could be that i am short in information, and this is solved already?!), but FCP is still not "native" working with MXF..but converting to QT.

This might be no problem for some, but if you want to edit big numbers of footage, converting is pain in the a and nothing you want...!

I agree that Avid and FCP are the bigtimers on the broadcast market, but due to some ignorant moves, this could change more and more in the future...i am specially speaking about avid..they are really slow on inventing support for new formats...!

I just spoke to a posthouse here in berlin, and they told me for some of the work they HAVE to use Edius, as Avid lacks a lot of support, specially in pal-land..!

However, may we all be happy with our different brands..!

[Code Rad]

I use a powerbook g4 in the field to capture p2 and then set it to "target disk mode" and transfer the files to a MacPro quad 2.66. I highly recommend picking up a powerbook g4, they are the only models to have a PCMCIA slot and the are relatively cheap used. I paid $775 for a 15".

[panchromatic]

Native mxf is irrelevant in fcp, it's just a file wrapper, so no transcoding happens for a start, and in the new p2 import window the qt conversion happens as part of the logging process, so you do not have any "extra" transcoding, just a super fast workflow...Also concur about the professional avid/fcp thing, you will never get a job editing on anything else, and even if you are not an editor per se, knowing the software that most people are using is important. Not that they are better systems, its just that those two are used for the majority of work done worldwide ( exepting some news ) . If you don't use them now, you will have to someday, if you stay in the industry...Get a macbook pro, bottom of the line if you have to...( and a cooling pad! )