3k pc

[EliasR]

Hello!

Witch specs will you need on a pc to handel the 3k material?

If I get a Intel i7 870 (2,93GHz), a highend nvidia card with cuda and some gb, will I survive with just the new CS5?

Have been looking around for a while on the forum, and all 3000$ macpro´s just make me sick. Im a not to rich student from Sweden,
making skimovies.

 

[Jeremy_Sawatzky]

cuda shouldnt be nessasary, im building my rig for scarlet soon as well, im going to be using a i7 920, since it is capable of using ddr3 memory, 870 i dont believe is i could be wrong. 8-12 gb of ram, a ati 5870 for triple displays. a 120 gb ssd to edit from and a 60gb ssd to install os and cs5 on. that will Easily hande scarlet footage. granted, ssds arent cheap by any means so a couple 1tb hds in raid should do fine. if u do your homework u can build this system without ssds for just around 1500 bucks.

 

[EliasR]

sounds great! Can you import and handle the raw footage directly from the scarlet into CS5 and edit? Or will any other software be required?

 

[Stephen Gentle]

sounds great! Can you import and handle the raw footage directly from the scarlet into CS5 and edit? Or will any other software be required?

There's a RED plugin for Adobe Creative Suite that you will have to install (unless by the time CS5 comes out it comes in the box).

But as for buying computers, I'd say that unless you really need it soon, wait until Scarlet comes out. There's still a good four to six months, and in that time, the price of current components will come down and new components will come out... It should be much more cost effective and you'll have a more powerful computer.

 

[Paul Whittington]

There's still a good four to six months, and in that time, the price of current components will come down and new components will come out... It should be much more cost effective and you'll have a more powerful computer.

I totally agree...

In fact, on January 26 (10 days from now) Apple will be announcing their 2010 lineup. And most likely they will announce the new 6-core Gulftown Mac Pro's which will hopefully be available for sale next month. Trust me, if you're planning to buy a new Mac soon, you will want to wait for these. Plus, I'm hoping they will have Blu-ray burners in them too!

 

[Bastien Tribalat]

I totally agree...

In fact, on January 26 (10 days from now) Apple will be announcing their 2010 lineup. And most likely they will announce the new 6-core Gulftown Mac Pro's which will hopefully be available for sale next month. Trust me, if you're planning to buy a new Mac soon, you will want to wait for these. Plus, I'm hoping they will have Blu-ray burners in them too!

Agree with him !
Knowing that my current imac can handle it (Early 2009 24 inches iMac, core 2 duo 3,06ghz, 4Gb of DDR ram and a nVidia GT130 graphics card. It handles 2K footage from the RED ONE into Final Cut Pro 7 or played on Quick Time X really well. The only drawback is that it takes roughly 5 minutes for 20 seconds of footage to be converted from RAW to Apple ProRes 4444 but with a faster mac........). My point is, even if you plan to buy a Mac but can't afford a Mac Pro, one of the new top end iMacs should suffice verry well.

If you want to stay on PC, I think you'll need a 64 Bits system (on my iMac I run OS X Snow Leopard in 64 Bits mode).
Adobe CS 5 will be a great product, but as of now on my mac, I would not use Premiere for editing. I still love it, but it is true that Final Cut, which is as easy as Premiere to use I think, is better and have more pro functions.
I even prefer it to Avid Media Composer (3.5). I prefer ProRes to Avid DNxHD codecs and the Avid's interface, state of the art I know, is a bit more difficult to learn and to use I think. (even if Avid products are the leaders and if I recognize that it has even more pro stuff than Final Cut, I think Apple's software is close enough and simpler to use... And cheaper to !)

Anyway, Adobe CS5 package will be certainly usefull for the other Adobe products, especially for After Effects CS5 (which will support R3D natively) which is better that Apple Motion in my opinion.

In fact, it's just a matter fo taste after all.

PS : if someone at Avid reads it, please, pretty please, change something in your interface : make clips and tools as interactive as Apple does in Final Cut. You know, click and drag anywhere on the time line... As a cinema student and future editor, I know that I'll have to use both, depending on the production hiring me so...^^

 

[David Rasberry]

I priced components for a Cuda based LGA1156 workstation for Adobe CS5 at Newegg and came out around $2.4k for a fully loaded version with a 6TB raid 5 internal storage setup a 2TB backup drive and a 1TB system drive. By Max PC's benchmarks a similar I7/870 setup gave 90% of the performance of the fastest I7 975 LGA1366 benchmark. Strip it down with less storage initially and you can build one for less than $1.5K. CS5 will benefit from cuda processing so the GTX series midrange video cards that support cuda will be the best economy choice.