dbz_doomrider wrote:Whoops.....eh heh didnt mean to say the 1337 skillz thing in that way: I was just saying that the comment about having to compensate seemed to denote that I had no editing skills, and therefore needed something great.
I still want the input, and I have found this input very useful so far. Anywho, thats me, making mistakes as always '-_-
However, on this same topic, can you make a suggestion of something that WOULD be advantagious to buy for video editing sake. If I can avoid spending so much money, you better believe I'll try. I need all the suggestions I can get O.O!!
If your plans are to edit anime music videos and possibly other similar type projects, I would recommend to atleast have the following for a good solid editing system.
- Lots of ram, min 512 meg, but I work with 1 gig...
- Yes, lots of video drive space is good. I use 200 Gig of Video drivers (2x80 and 1 x60). I run them off a Promise IDE ATA133 TX2 controller and have excellent results.
- 2 x 17" monitors (Flatscreen are more, but save space so it's a trade off here - If you go with a flat screen, even 15" is a good consideration and they are much cheaper).
- Video Cards that can run both monitors. a few choices here. ATI makes some cool stuff.
Depending on what you want else you want to do, you may consider a realtime editing card like a Pinnacle DV500 if you want to edit footage shot with a camera as or even analog footage as well. If Anime Music videos off DVD and digital output (Mpeg1, Mpeg2, XviD, etc) is all you want, then this is not a requirement. But you do get a full version of Premiere with it and the cost is like $500.00 (Premiere itself costs in that range!)
If you do decide to go with a video editing card. Make sure the motherboard and video cards you choose are compatible with it! I'm sure lots of people make recommendations here...
Vlad