Digital editing p.c for £2000

[miker]

still depends what sort of editing you want to do ... i'd probably look at getting a dell pc and upgrade the stuff like memory and dvd-burner myself cos it'll probably save you a few quid.

of all the vendors i've dealt with, dell consistently give good value and have excellent support (drivers etc.) on their website. no doubt there are customer servcie horror stories, but i've never had to use that cos i know how lame it is, being i work in the industry.

the trick with buying a bang-for-the-buck pc is to NOT buy cutting edge (which i think 3GHz pretty much is? been a while since i've ordered anything but IBM x series eservers ...) but instead look at the spec a couple of steps down.

anyways, i doubt it would hurt to shop around.

[machead]

Are you O.K. Miker?

[Xendar]

Specialist NLE suppliers can sometimes be more expensive, but generally are similar in price to other PC dealers. It isn't quite true that any modern computer can edit video but as time progresses it is getting more that way. NLE dealers know what does and doesn't work, such as the motherboard which can be very important. A standard DV500 (analogue & DV capture card that comes bundled with Premiere) system from Planet PC is ?1599 + VAT, website price. I would imagine other NLE dealers equivalent systems are a similar price.

You could partition your hard drive but that doesn't solve the problem of disk access speed. Basically your hard drive that has Windows on runs slower as Windows is always writing and reading data to and from the drive. I would always recommend a dedicated video drive that runs at 7200rpm.

As for the editing software, Premiere comes bundled with most capture cards and Premiere alone costs about ?445 + VAT. So it might be worth buying a capture card such as Pinnacles DV500 for ?398 + VAT and Premiere comes bundled, therefor saving you some money. I would also recommend that you take a look at Pinnacle Edition editing software too. It is very professional and useful for long form editing and it has background rendering. So you can carry on editing while it renders.

[Chance1234]

i think you were ripped off personally,

heres a company that got a recomendation from a friend of mine and their prices

http://www.omni-data.co.uk/systems/optimovie4.htm

[Mods]

Looks like a nice set up, but don't get a PC with Windows XP !!

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m0ds

[Patriarch]

works like a charm for me (xp + premiere 6.5)

[Mods]

Yes, it worked fine on XP for me too, but it seems to have been one of the main factors for a lot of peoples problems.

If you're new to Windows then yes XP is a good choice. If don't want to be told step by step how to work a computer then I suggest Windows 2K.

m0ds

[digital_biscuits]

Why not get Windows XP?

[Mods]

As you only have 3 posts in your credit, you may not be aware - but every other thread in this forum seems to be "ADOBE WONT WORK!!" and the solution is usually cos they're running Windows XP.

Get Windows 2k. Premiere works a treat under it.

m0ds

[Xendar]

Premiere works fine under WinXP. There must be a problem with your setup.

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