Building PC....What should I get?

shadow-the-hedgehog · Post by **shadow-the-hedgehog** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:51 am

I am building a PC what video card/audio card should I get? As well as monitor and HDD?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:10 am

Video and Audio = Whatever you want, it won't make a difference when editing video as the CPU does the grunt work.

Monitor, what ever you want, whatever looks best to you.

Hard drive, anything that's 7200RPMs. I'd suggest atleast 80GB.

Are you building it yourself or buying it from someone like DELL or Gateway. If you're not building it yourself your options are limited to what models they have. I'd suggest you go check thier websites and get what ever system you can afford.

~klinky

shadow-the-hedgehog · Post by **shadow-the-hedgehog** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:32 am

I am buliding myself. But what video card or sound card have video and audio inputs.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:20 am

Well most audio cards have a line in and a mic jack in the pack. Something like a Sound Blaster Audigy or a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz are known good cards.

There are quite a few cards out there that support VIVO(Video In/ Video Out). How well they work I don't know. If you really plan on capurting your source footage then you'd probably want to get a *REAL* capture card from Pinnacle. As for which one to get, I really don't know as I don't capture.

It's a better idea to invest in a fast DVD-ROM drive & CPU along with a DVD collection of anime. DVD is easier to work with(well more people here can help with it since it's the most used option for getting quality source) & it looks prettier than captured source.

~klinky

shadow-the-hedgehog · Post by **shadow-the-hedgehog** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:30 am

How could I get the DVD footage then?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:54 am

What do you mean?

Get a DVD drive, that's it. There are guides off the main page on using DVDs for source.

~klinky

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:07 am

Also, don't skimp on your memory. Your CPU will be doing the work, but if you've only got like 128MB of memory, it'll really slow you down. I think 512MB is generally considered a good number, and anything higher is even better.

Klinky's right- I'd only worry about a capture card if you've either got oodles of money to play with (in which case getting a DV500 would be a nice thing, the real-time effects are supposed to be nice and it comes with Premiere) or are going to be using VHS source for your videos. For DVDs, a DVD-ROM is both much cheaper and superior quality-wise. For outputting, a number of video cards (ATI, Nvidia, etc) have TV-output capabilities, though some of them don't do very high res. My GeForce2's TV output isn't bad, but I still prefer making a SVCD of my videos and recording to tape from that when I have to submit a tape entry to a contest.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:57 am

get this:
AthlonXP 2700
200gb 7200rpm 8mb cache WD hdd
1024mb pc3700 DDR ram
Geoforce FX Ultra 128mb video card
SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1
Pioneer A05 DVD-R burner
24" LCD monitor
Kilpsch THX 5.1 speakers

that should only set you back a few k

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:27 am

*drool*

That's the DVD+/-R/RW burner isn't it?

If I were spending that much money on a system, I'd probably pick up a DV500 or (were I really not worrying about money) a VT2, a Contour Shuttle Pro (those just look like they'd be quite useful), and get two of those WD drives and RAID them.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:49 am

actually with no limit $ you could get scsi hdds that would be sweet

Pioneer A05 is a 4x -R/RW burner, no need for +R