Just got the HVX and need some PC power...URGENT

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Dabhand Digital Media

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Hello All,

Were newie DVXUser members and have been scouting around the forums here trying to find some information but can't quite figure out where is the best place to post our question or indeed find some answers.

We are a small production house in the UK and recently acquired the HVX 200 and will be editing 100 minute feature films , one after the other within the next 18 months. Until now we have been cutting in Sony Vegas, since version 2 and still with Vegas at version 7.

We own a Dual Core Athlon 4800+ with 4 GB of RAM and only edted DV so far. But from now will be using the HVX fo these productions and cutting on Vegas.

The Athlon is too slow, as most of you might know, to handle the 1080i footage and were not even getting 15fps on preview playback. with DV Film's Raylight plug in.

We will keep th eAthlon for DV editing but does anybody recommend and has tested any powerful systems that can handle the MXF files with Raylight with Vegas?

Were in the market to spend about £1800...about $3500 on a system in the very near future.

Any machines capable as yet?

Thanks in advance.

DDM
 
Dabhand Digital Media said:
Hello All,

Were newie DVXUser members and have been scouting around the forums here trying to find some information but can't quite figure out where is the best place to post our question or indeed find some answers.

We are a small production house in the UK and recently acquired the HVX 200 and will be editing 100 minute feature films , one after the other within the next 18 months. Until now we have been cutting in Sony Vegas, since version 2 and still with Vegas at version 7.

We own a Dual Core Athlon 4800+ with 4 GB of RAM and only edted DV so far. But from now will be using the HVX fo these productions and cutting on Vegas.

The Athlon is too slow, as most of you might know, to handle the 1080i footage and were not even getting 15fps on preview playback. with DV Film's Raylight plug in.

We will keep th eAthlon for DV editing but does anybody recommend and has tested any powerful systems that can handle the MXF files with Raylight with Vegas?

Were in the market to spend about £1800...about $3500 on a system in the very near future.

Any machines capable as yet?

Thanks in advance.

DDM
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You might consider the Core 2 Quad or Core 2 Extreme from intel and their Bad Axe 2 (BX2) motherboard. Raylight will use all four cores (and up to 8) if you have 'em. This is a very affordable ugrade.

Also regarding playback in Raylight with the dual AMD you should be able to get 1080i60 real time in Raylight Yellow at Vegas 1/2-size or 1/4-size Preview Quality. On a dual AMD here I can do that with 40% CPU utilization. Just make sure you switch to Blue before the final render.

You didn't mention hard drives but also a dual 3GB/s SATA RAID really helps, and is cheap.
 
Get a mac, with fcp 5.1, it edits hd with proxies, so while you have your hd clip stored, you're viewing a proxy for editing, of corse I'd go to original for cc, but then again, I'd do my cc in shake 4.1

Jason Miller
 
DDM, you're computer has much better specs than mine. I got a 3.02GHz 1.5gb ram (now 2) and a 5400rpm hard drive.

All I can say is GET CANOPUS BROADCAST 4 (yes I'm yelling). It's only about $1000 and is amazing with the p2 workflow. I've been playing around with 1080pa footage and never have any slowdown. Also with the money you save you can buy me a christmas present.

Ian
 
A Dual Core 4800+ is a very powerful CPU. It sounds to me like you probably have another issue somewhere in your workstation. Some things to consider:
  1. Graphics card - should be on the best bus available on the motherboard. Should have pleanty of onboard memory, and should match the motherboard chipset if possible.
  2. Memory - Speed should be properly matched to the CPU
  3. BIOS Settings - should be tuned for editing (based on motherboard so giving advise is difficult)
  4. Disk Subsystem - Hardware RAID (Adaptec) and big SATA disks (WD SE16 500GB drives)
Motherboards are cheap, so pick the graphics card you want to run and then find the right motherboard. I run Avid, so I found the nVidia graphics card and then selected an ASUS motherboard because it had the proper bus and the matching nVidia chipset. You may find that you can upgrade your video card and mobo, then you can spend the rest of your budget on the massive disk array you will need for 1080i.


Bob
 
Further to my system specs, I only have a Raedon 9700 128mb video card and my ram is only DDR400 (yours is probably DDR2667mhz). What graphics card do you have?

Does sound like something weirds going on. I haven't used vegas but maybe it's not configured to use your graphics card (hardware acceleration)?

Try turning all your background apps off and see if it's a software conflict of sorts. Norton's notorious for this kind of thing.

Ian
 
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