A friend of mine has asked me to build an editing system for him. The only problem is that I have no clue what he might need to do film editing. I know what can be used for gaming, but not for editing. His only caveat is it has to be under $500. I was planning to upgrade to A64 so I will be selling him my XP3000 and KT400 board. But aside from that, what else would he need? What kind of video card is good for video editing? Is 512Megs of ram good or does he NEED 1024? ANy help guys?
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Film Editing System??
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if it won't push you over budget, a dedicated hardware capture card (plextor convertX) ($~200) would be a good thing. otherwise an ati AIW is a good idea. basically the bottleneck is disk i/o, though. this is the _only_ place where raid0 makes sense. get a small ide boot disk, and 4 80-120GB sata's, and go raid 0+1. 512 will probably be ok, but more = better.
$500 is a small budget for a system like this. Unless it gets rare use as an editing system, it's probably worth the extra $500 for the performance.
$500 is a small budget for a system like this. Unless it gets rare use as an editing system, it's probably worth the extra $500 for the performance.
I am actually building a similar system, but more for picture/photoshop instead of video. For me its costing twice as much, but it will do work fast. I wouldnt go with 3000+ though for video editing, Id go with Intel actually. They function better on applications than AMDs, with the possible exception of the FX series, but even then if you involve multi tasking (encoding+editing) then Intel is the better buy. The XPs are slower, single channel memory, and arn't exceptional multitaskers. I would recommend 1024MB RAM, however if you are on a low budget 512 will do. You have to remember that when you make changes before saving it all goes to the RAM, you will slow down after editing to long with 512. But like I said ealier get an AIW for captureing, or if he wont be using that just get somthing like a Ti4200 if you can find one or the low end radeon/fx series. The workstation cards would be my best recommendationl, but they are VERY pricy.