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macburner

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11. December 2005 @ 08:07

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Hi there, um I just had a few questions for people who have used a NLE (Non-Linear
Editing System) on a pc. As much as I love my iMac G4 and the Mac OS X operating
system, I find that I need to upgrade to a dual processor machine (Rendering SD DV and
encoding MPEG-2 takes hours) but after taking a short lived trip to a local Apple store,
found (not to my surprise) that I was going to have to drop about $7000 on a quad-core
g5 with the new final cut studio and other software. However on the PC side of things I
can get a Dell Dual Processor for Half the price of a G5. One of my major concerns about
switching to a PC is the software. I hear Avid is good and so is Vegas+DVD. Has anyone
used used any of this software? What are the differences? Effects? Filters? Is the interface
as clean as Final Cut? How about rendering and encoding times? Your help is
greatly appreciated.

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SypherTek

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12. December 2005 @ 01:59

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i havent used any of that software but i do know that the quad g5 is well worth the money if your doing a lot of video editing. its quite a beasty machine

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Studio Comp: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OC ~ 2.35GHz runs at 40 celcius idle and 48 under stress (aerocool GT1000 really works!), Asrock K7VT4A , 1024MB Dual Channel DDR 400, MSI Nvidia FX5200 128MB OC ~ 600MHz mem 350MHz core,80GB SATA + 200GB SATA + 120GB IDE, 7.1 Channel Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX sound and midi interface. 19" Sony SDM-HS95 TFT monitor - sweeet
Comp2: AMD Sempron 2400+ OC ~ 2.0GHz (Stable), Asrock K7S41GX, 512MB DDR 333, Onboard Graphics, 40GB Maxtor IDE

set of monitors on the way soon :P
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anubis66

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12. December 2005 @ 11:03

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yes, vegas is great. our school works with that company and others like it. it can to wonderful video editing and has loads of special features you can do.

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macburner

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12. December 2005 @ 15:23

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Thats great to know, what kind of machine are you editing on and how fast does it render on that machine?

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anubis66

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12. December 2005 @ 18:01

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my machine blows, im upgrading soon. my processor is a 1.95ghz amd, 1 gig of pc2700 ram. it does decent on my computer, and i bet even greater on a more owerful machine.

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