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| Thread ID: 42280 | 2004-02-06 06:14:00 | what hardware specs do i need for digital video? | runt_monkey (5234) | Press F1 |
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| 213245 | 2004-02-06 06:14:00 | at the moment i am building myself a computer so that i can edit digital video. i have a limited budget, however, and was wondering where i should aim my money and what sort of hardware i should pick up. thanks for you help. |
runt_monkey (5234) | ||
| 213246 | 2004-02-06 07:16:00 | The best you can afford.:D P4 chips have proven to be faster at encoding then AMD chips,however you still get more bang for your buck with an AMD.Having said that if you can afford it i would seriously consider the hyper-threading p4 chips. If your going to do video capturing then it works best when streamed onto a hard drive that is there for that purpose alone.A good set up would be a 40 gig drive for your os,and an 80-to160 gig drive for the media files.Buy the fastest drives you can afford.Video files can be huge. If you want the best results for captured video then an external box that captures audio and visual and then locks them together and then feeds it to the pc is a good idea.Most internal capture cards let the audio be processed by the sound card and then they lock the visual track to it,If they have been caught at different rates then out-of-sync audio-video is certain to happen. heh...where was i...Ok,get the best cpu you can,2 harddrives if possible,and as much ram as you can afford.And buy a decent video card,by that i dont mean a top of the line gameing card but don't use onboard rubbish,a fx5200 would be fine. |
metla (154) | ||
| 213247 | 2004-02-06 07:24:00 | A firewire card might be a good idea for DV. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 213248 | 2004-02-06 07:30:00 | thanks for your reply. i was wondering, though, what this "external box" for capturing video is? i was just planning on connecting my camera (i wish my camera, someone else's camera) to my computer by firewire and letting adobe premiere do its thing. is there a site you could direct me to that would explain what this capturing device is? thanks again. |
runt_monkey (5234) | ||
| 213249 | 2004-02-06 07:34:00 | I believe that if you are using DV from a Digital Video camera, and transferring via Firewire, then you wouldn't need a video capture card, and the issue of audio/video out-of-sync wouldn't be a problem, as both a transferred via the firewire in one signal. The video capture card/external capture unit is for capturing via s-video or RCA cables. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 213250 | 2004-02-06 07:37:00 | Mike is correct,I just wandered off onto a tangent....The process i was rabbiting on about is irrelevent if your going directly from digital camera to pc. | metla (154) | ||
| 213251 | 2004-02-06 07:49:00 | > Mike is correct Woah! That's a first :D Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 213252 | 2004-02-06 08:04:00 | Just to elaberate on what i was dribbling about before... www.canopus.us This is used to convert anolouge to dv,it would give far superior avi files then a run of the mill capture card,as already noted its not of any use to the thread starter but if i was building an editing system its what i would have... Acually if money was no problem then i would get one of these. www.canopus.us Its a real time encoder and editor,$1600 american.... |
metla (154) | ||
| 213253 | 2004-02-06 11:47:00 | for editing DV I have found that a fast CPU is not that important... I use AMD 2000-XP chip and 512 of ram the big thing is lots and lots of hard drive. depending of the exact DV format and software you have you will find that an 80GB will only 45 minutes of video. you get a firewire card and the camara plugs in to the firewire card. once you have edited the video you can export back to the camara or save to CD or DVD as required. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 213254 | 2004-02-07 01:19:00 | hmmm......if your going to encode an 80 gig avi file down small enough to fit on a dvd(4gig?) then the cpu and a fair whack of ram are going to be hugely importent,knocking a third of the time off the process is a huge ask when it can take many hours to encode. | metla (154) | ||
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