X-Postal_Boy
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Jun 13, 2003, 8:50 AM
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Re: Still debating on new pc nle.... What do you guys think?
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: I for the past 2-3 months have been saving for a new nle to keep @ home away from the office I work in.
: Currently using the Canopus Storm2, 2.4ghzp4,1gig ram,duel monitors..etc...
: This is what I wanted to do. I wanted to use either a FWHD to bring footage from work to home to work on or to add a hd sled to my pc @ work and the new pc @ home... Either way I wouldn't need to buy an expensive dv deck for home and all camera originals stay in the office....
: The PC I'm looking to buy is a Dell thanks to the high rec's from people on this board:-)
: But when I load it all up with "what I need and then some" It's preety costly..PLUS the Canopus 2 for a grand total of over 4500...
: 2 lcd screens, 1 gig ram, p4 3.00 800mhzfsb, Yes I know expensive and big time... I'm willing ot pay for the latest b/c It will last and earn me much more than a sub par system bought now will last for a few years to come....
: On paper it works.... People I know.. It works for them as well...
: But I'm 22 years old... Girlfriend has her own place... More than hal fthe week I crash @ her place... My PC would be useless to me If I had a tower when I'm 2 her place...
: So should I look into a high powered laptop and go with a totally seperate program such as Vegas Video 4?
: I would also buy a FW HD to store video files on while I work on the projects... I would injest and output footage from work... SOOOOOOOO I would bring the laptop with me to work as needed and I could work off the laptop @ home.... @ the girls house... @ vacation... ANYWHERE.
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: BTW The laptop would end up costing me anywhere from 200 more or less dollars as compared to the tower with all the hardware I would include on it...(the lcd's are what are going to keep the tower price high...obviously.)
: I'm not big on the thought of the macs.... I feel the are very pricey and even though fcp4 is supposed to be phenominal... I have 2 friends with macs and both have had nothing but problems....(only one has the matrox board in it....)
: SO I would say i'm staying away from the mac towers and laptops....
: chris
I don't know...I put together a dual Athlon 2200+, 1gb RAM, 120MB hard drive, Firewire, USB1/USB2, GeForce4TI, Pioneer 4x DVD-R/RW in a good case for around $1900 bucks, then threw in a 19" and 17" monitor and the system runs pretty snappy for me. And I know that prices have dropped some since then (of course).
I use Premier for the NLE stuff, and Combustion for a lot of the post stuff, and the dual processors help quite a bit. I'm looking at Vegas and Avid, but haven't really had the chance to check them out much. And when the processor prices drop, I can drop in a couple 2800+ or faster chips for a couple hundred bucks total.
I don't use any of the extra video hardware...just grab everything with firewire. Maybe in the future I'll get a really good OpenGL card for the Combustion (Particle effect create black holes in computers...suck the life out of them), but what I have works good for now.
Just pick a system that you are comfortable with. If you need to add on or tweak it later, go ahead.
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