Video Editing Systems

[Serpent]

My editing system is this:

Dual 1.8 GHZ PowerMac G5
2 GB of RAM
320 GB HD
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Apple 21 inch Cinema Display
Final Cut Studio (FCP, Motion 2, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro)

I shoot all video with a Canon GL1, which I need to get an underwater housing for but I am a bit tight on budget.

 

[jellitot]

Hardware
P4 3gHz running XP home
1gb Ram
80g internal HDD
2 x 300gb and 1 250 gb Maxtor external HDD on USB2
2 x 19" TFTs
Pioneer 109 DVD writer

Software
Premiere Pro 1.5
After Effects 5.5 (don't really use it yet)
Encore DVD
Audition (again not got into it yet)
Photoshop 7
getting Twixtor soon
Dreamweaver 3 for the website - www.jellitot.com

Editing HDV quite happily.

Camcorders
Sony SC100 x 2 soon to be sold
FX1 soon to be sold
HC1 soon to replace it.

 

[PerroneFord]

My setup:

Camera: Panasonic AG-DVX100
VTR: JVC BR-DV3000 DVCPRO/DVCAM
Monitor: JVC TM-H1700
Panasonic SVHS VTR
Toshiba consumer DVD Player

Computer:

Dell 2GHZ CPU
4GB RAM
80GB System Disk
400GB of internal HD
~2 TB External array
Phillips DVD+-RW
Plextor DVD+-RW
Promise Hardware Raid
20" Flat Panel

Software:

WinXP Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premier 6.0 (Premier Pro aquired but not installed)
Adobe After Effects 5.0
Boris FX
Boris Graffiti
Canopus Editing Suite (uninstalled)
Canopus DVStorm SE (uninstalled)
Roxio Suite
Sonic Solutons Suite
Sony ACID 5.0
Sony DVD Architect 3.0
Sony Vegas 6.0
Terran Interactive Cleaner 5.0
Misc. editing and conversion tools.

 

[carchie]

Me and my wife produce a weekly broadcast on the local Public Access TV station.
We use an off the shelf 3.2 Ghz Dell 8300 with 540GB's, 1 GB DDR ram, and 17 in LCD monitor.I built a 2.5GHz P4 Northwood system which contains about the same amount of memory and disk space connected to a 17 inch CRT monitor.
On both systems we've installed the Abode Video Collection which consist of
Premiere Pro 1.5
After Effects 6.5
EnCore 1.5
Audition 1.5

For camera's, we use 2 Sony DSR250 or 2 PD150's.
We use a consumer level JVC miniDV camera as a deck and sometimes as a third camera depending on what we are filming.

 

[PaulSmithTek]

Does anyone have freezing up issues during capture mode.

I have a

TDK Capture Box
AMD Atholon 3000+
1.25 Gig ram
256 Radeon 6600 GT graphics card/and I also use EVGA Nvida 6600 AGP Graphics card.
400 GiG 7200 Hard Drive Space.
Win XP Pro.

I am not kidding I will record for about 15 minutes and it will freeze. make me Upset. Anyone else wonder if it is the tdk Capture Box? Can anyone recommend a better one?

I have all the latest drivers, for video and pinnacle. I am recording from a vhs Player to my computer.

Thanks,

Paul

 

[PerroneFord]

15 minutes? Anyone thinking AVI 2GB limit on capture?

 

[diversteve]

15 minutes? Anyone thinking AVI 2GB limit on capture?

Supposedly - according to the Pinnacle manual (p18) that's only for 98/ME based systems. 4GB if you've got a Fat32 system. But not supposed to apply under XP. Maybe the fact that you're doing analog captures has it confused.

I think there is a max capture time per clip for Studio, I thought it was 22 minutes though. I think it's shown on the capture options startup screen.

A way around it it to turn on auto-scene detection and let Pinnacle break the capture where it thinks is appropriate. To manually create a new scene just hit the spacebar during capture when desired.

A lot of my freezing issues stopped when I d/l'ed the 9.4 update(free)

 

[clarkaddison]

Hardware: Mac G5 1.8 gh dual processer. 2.5 gb ram, 200 gb external drive dedicated to video

Software: Final Cut Pro 5, Sonicfire Pro, Photo to Movie, Photoshop CS2

 

[fbosch]

I do corporate and personal video
check out my palau and yap footage from 2002
http://duceproductions.com/eg/pp.html

everything was shot w/ sony trv900 edited in premiere.

I suggest getting a $400 emachine from tiger direct and upping th ram to 1gb and editing w premiere pro 1.5 .it'll do everything you need, why waste your money.

if you are considering going to micronesia we stayed at the palau pacific and manta ray in yap
I would consider palau agressor and traders ridge next time

 

[fbosch]

need more ram