What setup do you have for editing?

JazzyDJ · Post by **JazzyDJ** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:25 am

What rig setup do you use to do your editing? What kind of PC, processor, memory, HD, video card, and software?

Currently I have a PC from the Ice Age in a HP Pavilion (and Ironicly my keyboard stopped working as I was typing)....
1.5GHz Pentium 4
256 MB SDRAM
NVidia TNT2 M64 graphics card with 32MB SDRam
40 GB Ultra DMA HD

I'd say it's time for an upgrade, lol.

And the software I use is Vegas 5.0 with a little bit of Windows Movie Maker 2 and Photoshop on the side. Also I use the Sound Recorder and Windows Media to do audio editing that I need when I want to add to the video.

For ripping my DVD for the vide I use Smartripper, TMPGenc, Virtualdub, AVIsynth and all the other standards reccomended by most here at the org.

How about you? What's your editing setup?

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:48 pm

I'm working on my computer,and it's the only one which I have lol. I'll just make a copypasta from my profile :

Mah Profile wrote:AMD Athlon 3200+
768 MB of RAM
80 GB HDD + 160 GB HDD
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
DVD+-RW / CD-RW Drive

As for editing program - I'm using Vegas 5.0,and I find it comfortable enough. I don't see any need to buy/upgrade to 6.0 or 7.0 , as this version has everything I need to edit.

Other programs I'm using : DVD Decryptor (haven't used it for AMV editing yet lol),AviSynth,Adobe Photoshop,Adobe Premiere Pro(sometimes),VDubMod,Zarx264 and few more AMVApp thingies.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:00 pm

Yes you do need an upgrade! Protip: processor is what you should be concerned about most as far as editing purposes. Get one of them fancy dual-cores for great justice! (unless you're getting into massive AfterEffects usage, in which case I hear it's quite RAM-hungry as well).

I got a free upgrade by swapping a monitor today.

My relatively new rig, aka. Temple of Isis mk1.02:

AMD64 4600+ dual-core CPU
2GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 8600GTS
80GB HD + 120GB and 300GB external drives (the 300GB one is borrowed, though)
Dual monitors - 15" and 22" widescreen, both LCD
Creative XFi soundcard, two sets of Creative speakers (2.0 and 2.1, usually hooked up together for a fake 4.1 setup), Sennheiser HD515 monitors (most editing's done on those)

Using Premiere 6.5 as far as software.

Very affordable setup there, I think, with some wretched excess here and there.

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:12 pm

Otohiko wrote:Yes you do need an upgrade!

I'm going to upgrade my machine up to something like this :

AMD Athlon 64 4000+
3GB DDR2 RAM
500 GB HDD + My current ones
Samsung 21" Widescreen LCD Monitor
nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS (a very good card you've got there o.O)

But that'll happen only when I'll earn enough money lol ^^

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:22 pm

Rapture** wrote:
Otohiko wrote:Yes you do need an upgrade!
I'm going to upgrade my machine up to something like this :

AMD Athlon 64 4000+
3GB DDR2 RAM
500 GB HDD + My current ones
Samsung 21" Widescreen LCD Monitor
nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS (a very good card you've got there o.O)

But that'll happen only when I'll earn enough money lol ^^

I was actually responding to the original poster, but you may as well

Mind you though, if I only did editing, I'd actually have a much cheaper PC. Most of what I spend on it is really not editing-related, but rather for my games

Koopiskeva · Post by **Koopiskeva** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:27 pm

I'm a whore, just built this.

Intel Quad Core Extreme QX6800
4GB DR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 8500GT
74GB Raptor HD + 250GB SATA + 30GB IDE + 250GB External
Dual Monitors - 37" Westinghouse 1080p LCD + 17" Sony LCD
Logitech Z4 Speakers
Sony MDRF1 Headphones
Logitech Keyboard and Logitech MX Revolution Mouse (I

this mouse)

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Emong · Post by **Emong** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:32 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:I'm a whore, just built this.

Intel Quad Core Extreme QX6800
4GB DR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 8500GT
74GB Raptor HD + 250GB SATA + 30GB IDE + 250GB External
Dual Monitors - 37" Westinghouse 1080p LCD + 17" Sony LCD
Logitech Z4 Speakers
Sony MDRF1 Headphones
Logitech Keyboard and Logitech MX Revolution Mouse (I this mouse)

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How much do you cost?

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:33 pm

Just in time, huh?

Yeah didn´t tried to click it. My firefox laged and I was unsure if there is something. I always fear that the browser wants to play the file =/

ZephyrStar · Post by **ZephyrStar** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:34 pm

I'm waiting on quad core to come down a bit....or for Octocore

Pent4 3.0ghz
Asus P4PE800-D
2gb ram
1x80gb WD, 2x320gb WD, 1x250gb WD
Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (soon to be a bfg 7800 probably, so I can play Bioshock...damn you 2k games)

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:35 pm

Bauzi wrote:Just in time, huh?

Yeah didn´t tried to click it. My firefox laged and I was unsure if there is something. I always fear that the browser wants to play the file =/

WRONG Browsertab sry -.-'

This was supposed to be a PM.

Intel Pentium 4 3,2Ghz
4x512 DDR2RAM modules
250GB HD
500GB extern HDD

Premiere Pro 1.5
Photoshop CS2
After Effects 7.0

I don´t have the feeling that I need more.