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Hello everybody.

I'm Pedro from Portugal. :D I've always liked video, commercials, movies and photography.

I found dvxuser by google and here I am. Hoping to learn a lot about this art.

I almost forgot I will need a new computer, what you recommend? AMD or Intel? Which graphic card?

Important note: Probably I will say many English mistakes I would like to ask you to warn me.
 
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Olá Pedro! Benvindo ao dvxuser!

First and foremost, wellcome and its nice to see another portuguese speaking friend here. In thr orum there are othe portuguese and brazilian dvxusers, but, more importantly, its an international community and "we are all together" on this "battle" to achieve the best cinema or audiovisual product we can deliver, and to do it we help each other openly here.

For your question:

Go Mac. I know its expensive there in Portugal due to taxes, but its one thing you won't have to bother once purchased. I don't want this to turn into a Mac VS PC thread. We all know building a PC will be a lot cheaper, but it is prone to get you problems and require your energy and attention often. The good thing about macs is that you buy a machine with "locked specs" or limited "upgrade" or user installable components. It may sound like the opposite, but this makes the machine bulletproof, firmwares work, software hardly crashes and performance- specially for apple developped software- is amazing, even vs much faster "on paper" PC's.

By buying a Mac, say, a Retina iMac or the just released Macbook Pro Retina 15" ( I still use a 2012 model with a Rocket X to edit red Dragon footage) you get a powerful machine- not th fastest- that is above all stable and frees you to concentrate in your creative work. Think about it!

Cheers from Macau,

Sergio
 
Welcome Pedro!

I've used computers I've built almost all my life and have used both AMD and Intel products. I used to use AMD due to the lower price point and similar performance. However, Intel has adapted and I now use their products most of the time (in terms of processors).

As for graphics card, it really would depend on what exactly you hope to do with it. A one or two gig card should be plenty for you. I'd make sure you get a great processor and a decent amount of ram, instead of dumping money into the best graphics card. The processor and ram are going to be the time savers for your video processing needs (not the graphics card).

I, personally, think the best computer is the one you like using and gets you where you need to be (regardless of what the brand followers and fan boys say). Most of my Mac buddies experience problems from time to time, and I've had issues as well (both platforms have problems). Overall though, both Macs and PCs work well, but I've never liked the constrictions and GUI of Macs. Therefore I use PC, because I like it and it works for me. Hopefully you'll be able to find (or build) a computer that suits your needs!
 
Good points by sly9. Forgot to say I was a PC user and used to build My own PC's myself. I just got tired of having to be an "engineer" all the time and wrestle with the machine's little quirks, which took away time and above all the disposition to be creative and concentrate on my creative work. Yes, my Macs did crash, but never have I felt - editing on Apple software- that I had to concentrate on the machine and not on the creative work. That, for me, was worth my money ever since I switched.
 
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