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Today in DCC Workstation
Building
a Digital Video Editing System --Good, Fast and Cheap: Pick Two.
The PC Hardware You Need for Good, Better and
Best Digital Video Editing
by Charlie
White
--INTRO--;
--GOOD, BETTER, BEST DEFINED-- ; --GOOD--
; --BETTER-- ; --BEST--
; --CONCLUSION-- ; --TABLE
1: Video Storage Requirements-- ; --TABLE
2: Sample Configurations-- ; --TABLE 3: For
further information-- .
TABLE 2: Sample Configurations
Here's a variety of sample PC
editing system configurations that's certainly not a complete listing,
but will give you an idea of the scope of video hardware and software
that's available for various levels of video editing. These price ranges
don't include acquisition devices like cameras and scanners, nor do they
include MPEG compression hardware, video tape machines or other output
devices.
|
Computer |
Capture
Card |
Editing
Software |
| GOOD
($5,000) |
600MHz
Pentium III, 256MB RAM, 18GB SCSI Seagate Cheetah HD, 32MB Graphics
Card, Windows 98, 21" monitor |
Matrox
Marvel G400-TV ($250), ATI All-in-Wonder 128 ($200), Pinnacle Studio
DC-10 plus ($229), FAST AV Master 2000 ($600). |
Adobe
Premiere 5.1 ($595), Ulead Media Studio Pro 5.2 ($499.95), Strata
VideoShop 4.5 ($495), Avid Cinema ($99) |
BETTER
($5,000-$10,000) |
(2)
600MHz Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, (2) 18.2 GB SCSI Seagate Cheetah Drives
with SCSI controller, 32MB Graphics Card, Windows NT 4.0, Sony NTSC
S-Video TV, 21" monitor |
DPS
Perception RT ($1995), Pinnacle miroVideo DC50 ($1999), Pinnacle miroVideo
DC30 Pro ($950), Pinnacle Targa 1000 Pro ($2845) |
Adobe
Premiere 5.1 RT (only in bundles with Pinnacle, Matrox cards), Ulead
Media Studio Pro 5.2 ($499.95), DPS VideoAction RT (incl. w/ Perception
RT) |
| BEST
($10,000 plus) |
(2)
550MHz Pentium III Xeon with 1MB full speed cache, 1GB RAM, (4) SCSI
18.2GB Seagate Cheetah Drives with RAID0, Windows NT 4.0, dual-monitor
capable graphics card like the Matrox Milennium G400, (2) 21" monitors,
Sony NTSC reference monitor |
Pinnacle
Targa 2000 Pro ($4695), Matrox DigiSuite LE ($3,995, bundled with
in:sync Speed Razor RT), Pinnacle ReelTime Nitro ($8995, bundled with
Adobe Premiere RT), Avid Xpress 3 Plus ($12,999), Pinnacle DC1000
($3,395) |
Avid
MCXpress for NT 1.6 ($2495 + $2500 for RT option), in:sync SpeedRazor
RT (in bundle with Matrox DigiSuite LE: $5995), Discreet edit* ($7995,
bundled with Matrox Digisuite LE) |
Lead
on to Table 3: For More Information
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