Latest update on my videogear saga...
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Moogyboy
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MikeC:
My MB has a maximum of 4 UltraATA133 devices, and no built-in SATA or RAID, although I probably could put in an extra controller card in a PCI slot. So I suppose I could use an IDE drive instead of Firewire without needing a card (for a total of 2 hard drives, CD-ROM and a DVD burner). I figured that an external Firewire drive was the way people go for things like this.
My case has like 5 or 6 3.5" internal drive bays--I was careful about that.
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jerryn
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I bought Pinnacle and I am sorry I did. It just performs poorly, edits poorly and the compression tends to change the picture to a grainy texture. I am going to buy Adobe Premire and see if I can get some clean editing done.
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Although there's probably technically no difference between the internal IDE and external firewire drives, why spend the extra money for firewire when you don't need to. You can always add it later. Any 7200rpm IDE drive will work unless you're planning to do HD editing, in which case you'll need to upgrade to a SATA card/drive(s). People buy firewire drives for laptops, or to have multiple big drives they can swap for various projects. A big IDE drive is certainly cheaper, however I can't see archiving a 50 GB project onto 4.7GB DVD's. I guess you could if you capture your clips in smaller chunks.
Did you d/l and install the 9.3.5 upgrade? I had the same problems till I did.
n/c - I don't have any experience with this.
If any of your problems are processor speed(>3GHZ) or drive speed related, Premiere Pro's going to be worse. It's really designed to be drive-centric, not memory-centric(credit to danielsan - an ex-Adobe guru over on DigitalDiver - there's a related thread going on over there currently)
To copy disks? Especially DVD's?(not that I do - actually I don't)Nero's faster if you don't have to write to your HD first.MikeC:
buy slower RAM but buy more of it...
3G of slower RAM is 49% better than 2G of faster RAM (that 1% is the speed difference)
3G of slower RAM is 49% better than 2G of faster RAM (that 1% is the speed difference)
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I've pretty much taken the hint about Pinnacle So let's see what other software packages are around the same price point...pretty much Adobe Premiere Elements and Sony Vegas Movie Studio+DVD (plus something by ULEAD which I didn't read much about except that it somehow lags behind the others). I didn't know about Premiere Elements...heck, that's probably my front runner now since I'm a big Adobe fan already and Premiere Pro is what I'd really like in the first place. I just hear that its DVD authoring tools aren't as nice as Sony's, but one step at a time, huh?
MikeC, thanks for keeping me on the path there. I admit that I'm still feeling my way through the woods with all this PC stuff as I've spent 85% of my computing life working with Macs. Patience is required.
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Billy S.
So let's see what other software packages are around the same price point...pretty much Adobe Premiere Elements and Sony Vegas Movie Studio+DVD (plus something by ULEAD which I didn't read much about except that it somehow lags behind the others). I didn't know about Premiere Elements...heck, that's probably my front runner now since I'm a big Adobe fan already and Premiere Pro is what I'd really like in the first place. I just hear that its DVD authoring tools aren't as nice as Sony's, but one step at a time, huh? MikeC, thanks for keeping me on the path there. I admit that I'm still feeling my way through the woods with all this PC stuff as I've spent 85% of my computing life working with Macs. Patience is required.
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Billy S.
sjspeck:
Moogyboy was talking about a CD-ROM and a DVD drive, sooo how does that help copy DVD's?
Now, Belkin and some other companies make external housings that allow you to use an internal drive as an external. They connect via USB 2.0. having an additional optical drive connected that way is cool. You can move the drive to any machine in the house.
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I didn't read his list that closely, just assumed he had a DVD/CD-ROM drive.MikeC:
I have an external 16X DL DVD/CD everything burner I use the same way. Has dual firewire/USB 2.0 ports so it works anywhere. My VAIO has non-standard width(how can they sell such a thing??) drives so an internal drive wouldn't fit.
I've seen those housings at Fry's, they also allow you to mount hard drives in them so you can have large portable storage. So if you've got an old unused drive, you can move large files between machines - even better than my burner, especially when you've got 40-50 GB of video files. I met a guy there who was taking old 10-20GB drives removed during upgrades, putting them in one and resellling them on eBay.
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MikeC:
It will be intriguing to see what Avid does with Pinnacle. Avid is notorious for a certain arrogance and distain for lower end products. I think that has changed considerably now that Final Cut has been eating into its market so agressively.
I've never liked Pinnacle because I have had bad luck with their products which seemed buggy and unstable. I hope Avid helps them clean up their act. I would cast a vote for Vegas.
One comment on OS. I have both XP and 2000 and will admit a certain fondness for 2000. That being said, I would be go with XP if only because XP will be supported longer and some newer software is geared for XP. 2000 as an OS is not being fully supported. It seems a shame to install it on a new system.
