Which Computer should I buy??

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Hi Guys,
A quick question..
I bought a GH1 and have a bunch of lenses and am planning to do an instructional DVD with it soon. But the question is.. what PC should I buy to take full advantage of it's capabilities...? And which programs should I get to make the editing process as pain free as possible as this is my 1st time doing something like this.
I'm thinking this Dell would work...
http://www.dell.com/content/product...-studio-xps-9000?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

I'm thinking the top of the line Dell computer would probably satisfy the needs of my project. I'm definately going PC as I am familiar with this. Am I on base here or will a lesser computer work just as well? Do I need any special graphics/video cards or super ramped up memory?
I have about 2 G's to spend on this and am thinking about Neoscene too.
Thanks for your help on this.
 
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I would consider building your own computer. I managed to do a build with a quad-core processor and a great GPU for less than $600 (after shipping and taxes! it really only came out to around $500.) I don't use it for video editing (I use my macs for that) but I use it for gaming and it works fine. It's not as nice as that dell but it would easily handle GH1 video editing (I think) and was cheap as heck.

You don't have to be a computer expert to build a computer if you find a ready-made components list...takes out a lot of the headaches of compatibility problems. This was my first build and it only took me a few hours to do, and that was after I figured out I had ended up with some bad RAM (don't let that scare you, I had it replaced for free, and had no downtime cause only one of the DIMMs was bad, I ordered a new set and they did a refund RMA which I filled when the new RAM arrived.) So basically with a build where everything didn't quite go as planned I still had a working machine in 3 hours.
 
That computer should work well - honestly I'd use Edius Neo 2 Booster as your NLE as I have a similar rig and Edius Neo2 Booster flies, it really seems to take advantage of good hardware better than the other NLEs after testing Premiere and Vegas.

Neoscene is still a good idea as it works great on the PC and then you simply will not have to worry about pulldown, however Edius will work with the AVCHD files natively better than any other NLE so if you shoot any 720/60 stuff it will be a joy to edit in Neo 2 Booster...and it seems to handle pulldown removal automatically on 1080/24 footage, but there do seem to be some issues when you start putting in dissolves, etc. and it messes up the interlacing/pulldown.

It's a little less robust than other NLEs but what it does well, it does really well, and after testing it I had zero qualms about switching to it (was using Vegas primarily). Just to give you an idea, and my rig is very similar to what you're looking at from Dell (i7, 9gb ram, etc.) neither Premiere or Vegas would play back Cineform files at full speed at the best quality, Edius, on the other hand, does it flawlessly and even handles real-time effects during playback...at full speed, it's night and day and makes better edits possible, in my opinion.

Anyways, it's definitely worth a trial download if you aren't familiar with it, just keep in mind that I am only referring to Edius Neo 2 Booster, regular Edius 5 doesn't have the built in acceleration for AVCHD that Neo 2 Booster does.

It would be a good idea to get at least a 2nd hard drive so you can keep your source and render drives separate.
 
This computer could most likely run anything you throw at it. It's a good computer but you probably could save yourself some money building your own desktop. If you don't want to then this is a good desktop. IMO this is sort of overkill. Don't need such a good comp but if you have the cash, go for it.
 
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