Title: HD Video Editing
Post by: Robspot on October 26, 2009, 03:38:44 pm
Does anyone do HD video editing and if so can you answer the following:
What spec of PC do you have?
Do you have a dedicated video capture board?
What software do you use?
I have a Sony HD camcorder and want to actually do something with the video I have taken.
What spec of PC do you have?
Do you have a dedicated video capture board?
What software do you use?
I have a Sony HD camcorder and want to actually do something with the video I have taken.
Title: Re: HD Video Editing
Post by: Robspot on October 27, 2009, 08:23:31 pm
What's happened to Peter's reply?
Anyway, thanks for that Peter. I am replacing my pc through work and we use Dell who unfortunately don't do SSD drives yet. The spec I am looking at so far is
2.4 GHz Quad Core Xeon processor
12 GB 1066 MHz RAM
2 x 300 GB SAS Drives
Windows 7 Ultimate
1GB ATi FireGL Graphics Card
Should be man enough.
Do you have any software experience or recommendations?
Anyway, thanks for that Peter. I am replacing my pc through work and we use Dell who unfortunately don't do SSD drives yet. The spec I am looking at so far is
2.4 GHz Quad Core Xeon processor
12 GB 1066 MHz RAM
2 x 300 GB SAS Drives
Windows 7 Ultimate
1GB ATi FireGL Graphics Card
Should be man enough.
Do you have any software experience or recommendations?
Title: Re: HD Video Editing
Post by: Robspot on October 27, 2009, 09:04:39 pm
Cheers Peter.
The 2 300 gig drives will be mirrored with the onboard raid controller and I already have a home media server which has plenty of striped storage. I'm also going for the blue ray writer.
I will check out Adobe, I've seen it recommended elsewhere.
One more thing, how do you get the video off the camera? Is firewire the best way or a dedicated hdmi or dv capture board?
The 2 300 gig drives will be mirrored with the onboard raid controller and I already have a home media server which has plenty of striped storage. I'm also going for the blue ray writer.
I will check out Adobe, I've seen it recommended elsewhere.
One more thing, how do you get the video off the camera? Is firewire the best way or a dedicated hdmi or dv capture board?
Title: Re: HD Video Editing
Post by: LangTall on October 27, 2009, 11:22:35 pm
Most DV-camara's have build-in harddisks/memory, so Firewire should be the way to go to take the raw material from the camerea. Will also be faster then a cardreader, although internal they do usually use a USB 2.0 connection, which is way slower then Firewire.
There are a few Sony's which can save to memorysticks though, I do not know what type Rob has.
There are a few Sony's which can save to memorysticks though, I do not know what type Rob has.
Title: Re: HD Video Editing
Post by: Robspot on November 09, 2009, 12:01:08 pm
PC is ordered and awaiting delivery.
Should have pointed out that my camcorder is a hard disk version Sony and records in AVCHD which means transfer will probably have to be HDMI or USB (might have a look in the manual!)
Will download some trial software but Pinnacle and Sony Vegas Platinum both handle that format and sell for under £100.
Will let you know more once the pc arrives. Thanks for your help.
Should have pointed out that my camcorder is a hard disk version Sony and records in AVCHD which means transfer will probably have to be HDMI or USB (might have a look in the manual!)
Will download some trial software but Pinnacle and Sony Vegas Platinum both handle that format and sell for under £100.
Will let you know more once the pc arrives. Thanks for your help.
