Hi there, um I just had a few questions for people who have used a NLE (Non-Linear Editing System) on a pc. As much as I love my iMac G4 and the Mac OS X operating system, I find that I need to upgrade to a dual processor machine (Rendering SD DV and encoding MPEG-2 takes hours) but after taking a short lived trip to a local Apple store, found (not to my surprise) that I was going to have to drop about $7000 on a quad-core g5 with the new final cut studio and other software. However on the PC side of things I can get a Dell Dual Processor for Half the price of a G5. One of my major concerns about switching to a PC is the software. I hear Avid is good and so is Vegas+DVD. Has anyone used used any of this software? What are the differences? Effects? Filters? Is the interface as clean as Final Cut? How about rendering and encoding times? Your help is greatly appreciated.
i havent used any of that software but i do know that the quad g5 is well worth the money if your doing a lot of video editing. its quite a beasty machine
yes, vegas is great. our school works with that company and others like it. it can to wonderful video editing and has loads of special features you can do.
Thats great to know, what kind of machine are you editing on and how fast does it render on that machine?
my machine blows, im upgrading soon. my processor is a 1.95ghz amd, 1 gig of pc2700 ram. it does decent on my computer, and i bet even greater on a more owerful machine.
