How Many Drives Do I Need?

i feel your pain, joe...this link might assist:

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3321&page=

I ended up getting a deal on a dell precision 670 w/ dual xeon 2.8mhz w/ FX1400 video card, 2 gig's of ram and 250 gig hd for $1500 and added the RAID system - i think i have about $2500 in system - excluding monitor and software - i really wanted the amd cpus but couldn't part with the cash - eventually I will upgrade my cpu
 
Joe_Hicks said:
Yes, I'm aware of that-- primarily the reason I'm spending some extra money and going with dual Opteron's. The biggest question I have had and that I can't seem to get an answer to is what is the marriage between the CPU(s) and the video card speed with regards to video editing? For example, Red Giants claim wasn't that you needed a particular speed CPU, it was a video card of 7800 or faster???

Joe
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Joe, there isn't a direct marriage between CPU and video card. What you want is a balance between the two. You'll get poor video editing performance on a hot CPU if you have a bargain basement video card and vice versa. Anything beyond that is application specific. Some applications can take advantage of multiple processors and others can't, for example. Some applications need more memory than others to perform well. So it's good to have an idea of what applications you expect to run on your new system.

In the case of Red Giant, the new Magic Bullet Editors v2 was specifically coded to utlilize the GPU of specific Nvidia video cards if they are present. I have a fairly fast ATI graphics card and MB V2 runs just as slow on my system as V1 did. :(

If you look at the new features for PPro 2.0, it talks about accelerated rendering speed by utilizing the GPU of certain video cards. However, the last time I checked, they didn't have a list of which cards are supported yet. Adobe seems to favor Nvidia cards so the 7800 is probably a good choice but if I were you, I'd wait to find out for sure if you plan to stick with Premiere.

-Dan
 
TeleDan said:
If you look at the new features for PPro 2.0, it talks about accelerated rendering speed by utilizing the GPU of certain video cards. However, the last time I checked, they didn't have a list of which cards are supported yet. Adobe seems to favor Nvidia cards so the 7800 is probably a good choice but if I were you, I'd wait to find out for sure if you plan to stick with Premiere. -Dan
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I just looked on Adobe's site and they now do have info on a handful of cards with which the nVidia 7800 series is fully supported.

But... interesting article Dewman recommended (up top) on video cards. Seems the Quadro series has the upper hand in most cases. I think I might have made a switch in video card choice given this report. I'm now strongly considering the FX1400.

THANKS DEWMAN FOR THAT INFO.-- VERY HELPFUL.

On another note, I found it very interesting that Adobe isn't immediately listing the DVX-100a under its list of supported cameras, given 1.5 had a dedicated module for Panasonic 24p projects.
 
your welcome, Joe! I can relate to everything your going through, because I went through the same thing about 10 months ago. I agree with Teledan concerning balance. I comprised on my system just because of $$$ and I think it's pretty well balanced.

Video cards are getting so outrages in their pricing, that I just couldn't see paying over $1,000 for a card. But my video work is regulated to web and some dvd stuff, no high dev. and the system I got was pre-built.

I've ordered the upgrade production suite from Adobe this past week, so hopefully i will get it soon. 24p is no problem for PP2.0 as mentioned by the product manager - here's a link:

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=36933
 
dewman- since you're using the Quadro FX1400, how and what are you doing to get out to an NTSC monitor for TV proofing?
 
Joe_Hicks said:
Sirius_Doggy- Why do you say 0 isn't for DV editing? Do you feel DV doesn't require that much throughput?

Joe
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Because if you have a 7200rpm SATA drive w/16m cache and it's seperate from your OS drive you'll never choke on it while editing DV.
Of course that's not true for HD.............
 
How bout the rest of you guys, what are you using for video cards and your methods of getting video signal out to an NTSC monitor?
 
Sirius_Doggy said:
Matrox RTx100

Of course I'm not sure how well or if Matrox is going to continue supporting the 100 since they seem to only be paying attention to the AXIO HD stuff now.
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Hmmm , interesting, I had no idea they supported the 100 at all (sorry, I just had to interject some sarcasm).

Stinkin Matrox-- the most finicky hardware on earth. I have used it and when it's set-up properly, it's a great card. But... I don't even want to try it on this system, especially with AMD's.
 
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