Best computer system for professional TV video editing

Edit Pro · #1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2006, 06:35 AM

Hi,
I am setting an editing panel for TV media video editing.

I want to use Adobe Premiere Pro (Real time rendering support).

My budget is $9000

Please advice me for best hardware and if there is any better solution than Adobe Premiere Pro for software

Thanks.

Mark W · #2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2006, 06:58 AM

Just get a zippy pc, decent g card, lots of monitors and give me the 5000 dollars in change as a consultation fee.

I found premier to be unstable and fussy when I tried it, but I didnt really try that hard.

grewell912 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2006, 11:09 AM

Lots and lost of harddisk space, and the top of the line intel processor.... an ati x1800xt graphics card would be awesome too (since prem pro 2 does rendering via the gpu!!!), oh and at least 2 gigs of ram if your going to be doing some real heavy projects!

Alan Mills · #4 (**permalink**) 02-16-2006, 11:40 AM

Even though I'm a fan of Adobe products and use them myself I am acutely aware of the fact that few (if any) 'real' proffessionals use Premiere Pro. Use of Premiere Pro, from what I can tell, pretty much stops at the 'Wedding Videographer' level of proffessional.

I don't know why but experience tells me it is the case.

If you're $9K serious then you might want to do some digging.

Mike Thorpe · #5 (**permalink**) 02-16-2006, 08:03 PM

If your company has money to piss away, get Apple stuff

Get a Quad core powermac G5 with 4GB RAM, 2x500GB SATA HDDs, 256MB Geforce 6600, 30" Cinema Display, Airport & Bluetooth, wireless KB & mouse, 16xDL DVD Rewriter and Final Cut Studio.

$8,831 on the Apple Store

I'm not an apple fanboy (happily use a windows PC at home and a mac mini at work) but if someone gave me $9000 to spend (that I could only spend on one computer), I wouldn't waste it on a windows system

big user · #6 (**permalink**) 11-14-2007, 06:16 PM

I would not go with mac simply because premiere pro with adobe production studio works on pc a lot better.
build your self a pc with quad cpu, a lot of hdd space, use ddr3 and least 2gb, good case that has a very good cooling capability, video card you can go with 8800 or quadro cards with 512Mb of ram, or use matrox rtx2, and dual monitors (2.5-3k), then add a production studio (1.6k) and you will be uder 7k, and if you want you can buy your self a bluray burner (.5k)

yeebsy · #7 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 10:59 PM

$9000, I'd look at this.

HotHardware - 8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8" Sneak Peek - Dual Quads

Mark W · #8 (**permalink**) 11-26-2007, 08:54 PM

!!!!!!!!!! OMG !!!!!!!!! want.

Snaak · #9 (**permalink**) 12-02-2007, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yeebsy

$9000, I'd look at this.

HotHardware - 8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8" Sneak Peek - Dual Quads

Now to find some apps that support 8 cores hehe.

Very neat stuff though

Mark W · #10 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 07:40 AM

Vegas uses 4 for sure - maybe more. Ahhh. I could have 2 versions running with one rendering flat out and the other still haveing a smmoooth time line - soon my son soon.....