#Help w/ system design
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I'm considering "investing" in small scale video productions system.
I would like to have the capability to shoot and edit 15-30 minute
films, of a quality that could be entered in film contests.
Currently I have a Pentium 90 with 16MB RAM and a 2GB hard drive. (adding more
disk space or an optical drive is possible)
Questions:
1. What video card would you recommend?
2. What digital capture card would you recommend?
3. What non-linear editing software would you recommend?
4. Video camera: Canon L2 or Sony CCDVX3? ANy comments? Preferences?
Competitors?
Finally, is it possible to purchase all of the above if the end goal is
Professional results for $5k? 7k? I do not want to spend money only to find
that I have only a semi-functional toy.
Thanks in advance.
Steve Naidich
Hi Steve:
I have a Sony DXC-1820 TV camera and a portable Toshiba beta deck for sale,
very reasonable. If you could use either, e-mail me or give me a call at
708-945-2056.
Regards,
Chuck
Steve,
One of the best "broadcast quality" video capture/playback cards on the market
is the DPS Personal Animation Recorder. The card itself is about $2k, the
TBC-IV which gives you the video capture is about a grand, and a nice 1GB or so
HD, (about 5-7 minutes on-line) is about $600. Adobe Premiere or Razor Pro for
non-linear editing software should finish you off. Now, with only 5-7 minutes
on-line at any given time, you will need to "segment" out your work, ending
each piece with a still-frame or something unless you want to buy a frame
accurate recorder. In a month or so, DPS plans to release a PCI based board
that works with SCSI as opposed to IDE hard drives, and then you could go ahead
and get a 4GB drive for 20+ minutes of video.
You will need a seperate board for the digital audio recording and playback but
I am not sure what to recommend there, maybe someone else will pipe up with a
recommendation for that side of it.
-John