Greetings Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 As a few people on here edit HDV footage, I'd like to have their advice on what kind of computer I'll need to edit it fairly easily. I'm looking for the cheapest possible setup, preferably not a quad-core processor but something a bit more affordable. Are there any special cards which process HDV footage or does it all have to be done by the computer itself? Also, how important is the RAM speed - do I need really quick memory and if so, what does quick mean?I'm a complete noob in these matters so if somebody could explain it to me I'd be very grateful.And one last thing. I've heard that Premiere 2.0 captures HDV footage in DV for editing purposes and when exporting a video it re-captures it in HD. Is that true? If so the requirements for editing can't be that big? We captured some 1080 video yesterday with a mate and the data rate was 150MB/s. Is this normal? I'm used to editing uncompressed video but with DV the data rate is no more than 3,5MB/s. How is it done with HDV?Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 A bump?Come on ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 try giving Jonny Jones a PM, he's a bit of a video editing powerhouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
011001000110010101110010 Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I movie can do HDV... thats as far as my knowlege goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Final cut express or pro are both really good. (express being £199 and studio being £900ish). You using mac or pc? HDV uncompressed is pretty damn big. You will need 2 gbs of ram or more but you can use 1 gb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 You will need 2 gbs of ram or more but you can use 1 gb.That made me chuckle...You will need a bus that holds 50 people or more.. But you can use a rover metro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted April 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Been using Premiere for 5 years now so I'd rather stick to that.I was wondering if an AMD X2 5200+ and 4gb of ram would do the job. Premiere also uses the GPU of some graphics cards to help in rendering. These aren't expensive so that's probably a cheap way to increase performance. I know JJ uses a Mac with a speed close to 10ghz if I'm not mistaken. So if that's what he's going to recommend, no thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 I know JJ uses a Mac with a speed close to 10ghz if I'm not mistaken. So if that's what he's going to recommend, no thanks There's no such thing at all. But yeah, that spec you suggested would be more than enough. I mean you *could* edit on a 2 GHz P4 with 512 Mb ram, but it would be really slow. So it's just a case of how fast you need it to be, and that would be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 (edited) Yeah he just uses a quad processor G5. Dunno the clock speed but they dont add up to make a super processor, they all work independently.To add to Tomms point, I used to edit on a 900Mhz G3 iBook, it rendered slow as hell, but I could use it!! So it's all dependant on how fast you want it to be/can put up with. Edited April 12, 2007 by MonsterJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted April 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 I get your point, it's pretty difficult to explain how quick I'd like it to be. To me quick would be the same performance I'm getting while editing DV videos but that doesn't mean anything to you. I do lots of editing and I mean lots. The current setup allows me to edit quickly, meaning that only 1-5% of the time I spend editing is waiting for the file to be exported/rendered. There's no such thing at all.There is, for instance Intel has made a quad core Core2 Duo. It's just a bit pricey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 I get your point, it's pretty difficult to explain how quick I'd like it to be. To me quick would be the same performance I'm getting while editing DV videos but that doesn't mean anything to you. I do lots of editing and I mean lots. The current setup allows me to edit quickly, meaning that only 1-5% of the time I spend editing is waiting for the file to be exported/rendered. There is, for instance Intel has made a quad core Core2 Duo. It's just a bit pricey.i dont think the processing power is combined though, imagine it as if you've got four computers runnign at 2.5ghz, so it's not mega powerful, but you can multi task like a motherbitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 There is, for instance Intel has made a quad core Core2 Duo. It's just a bit pricey.Yeah but its not a 24ghz processor.Like the new Mac Pros have 8-core 3ghz processors, which is the equivalent of 8 independent 3Ghz processors. So not all of the processing power is used all the time, they come in and work when theyre needed, so if you were just chilling on Safari and MSN it would have the 1 processor running, but if you started to render, it would start to use more, and share the CPU load out over all of them.I would imagine if you wanna get "an AMD X2 5200+ and 4gb of ram" that would be sufficient. If Premiere uses GPU power too then get a decent 256/512MB graphics card aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted April 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 (edited) Cheers for that. It's definitely given me some ideas. Will probably get the Athlon, maybe a 6000+ as it's only 10 pounds more expensive than the 5200+ over here.About the speed thing though, Hz is the ammount of operations a processor does in one second so at a guess, if you have 4 2,4ghz processors, that adds up to a total of 9,600 billion (or whatever it is, I'm no good with numbers ) operations per second - even if each core is working independently?Edit: would have forgot. Will 4GB of memory work with a 32 bit system? Edited April 12, 2007 by Inur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Hz is the ammount of operations a processor does in one secondNo it's not, look it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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