Comments on: Editing Beyond Ilm Summit

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:24:17 +0000

My current system is only a single core. My laptop is a Dual Core Pentium (which processes video almost twice as fast as my desktop).

By: rizAK

rizAK — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:16:55 +0000

Check this out: http://www.hardware-revolution.com/best-video-card-for-your-money-october-2008/

By: rizAK

rizAK — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:00:33 +0000

MashaAllah, thanks for the quick responses!
That’s a nice setup, Dual Core?

My setup: AMD 3800+ x2, 3 GB RAM
Cheap video card which bites off a chunk of 256mb, and onboard sound.

Have you heard of boosting your pcs speed with a flash drive? Kind of like Vistas Readyboost, for XP there’s a program called “eBoostr” check it out.

Newegg has some cheap ram (4 gb for about $50 I think!) if you ever consider upgrading.

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:10:59 +0000

oh and my current machine specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (2 Ghz) on Asus K8V Mobo
3 GB Ram
Ati Radeon 9000 video card
Sound Blaster Xifi sound card
Plenty of hard drive space — although sometimes it doesn’t seem enough

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:32:51 +0000

I haven’t upgraded the computer yet. Sometimes I tend to fall into the “lets wait for the prices to drop a little lower” trap

Whether you stick to DV, Flash, film — if you have low lighting you’ll end up with a not so well lit picture. The best solution is to simply light the room. The second best solution is to have a camera that has much better low light sensitivity.

In terms of render time and charging your clients — the currency you trade in is VALUE. If money is that element of value that is being exchanged, then calculate into the fee what you believe is fair. Don’t ever make yourself or your time into a commodity. It’s not. The rates for value based proposition are much higher than that of “compensation for time”.

By: rizAK

rizAK — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:20:20 +0000

Also, that filter is pretty sweet! I was wondering… if you had to render for a gig, would it be fair to charge for render-time? Hmm or even capture time?
In that case… stick to DV LOL

By: rizAK

rizAK — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:16:05 +0000

What are your current machines specs?
It’s october bro! =D!!!

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:56:24 +0000

You think the X2 is great? Imagine having a Matrox AXIO. That is an HD rendering MONSTER! Surpassing some of the lower grade AVID rendering hardware…

…but it will also run about $5000

By: SaqibSaab

SaqibSaab — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:36:07 +0000

Man, a Matrox X2… I wish

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:29:19 +0000

I was planning on upgrading my machine to an Intel Core2Quad Q6600 but postponed the upgrade to October since this month’s budget is going toward some training I’ll be attending (will blog about that soon).

Ideally I’d love to get an Intel DX5400 Motherboard running with two Intel Core2Extreme processors with 8GB of FS-DIMMs. Down side is that it would run me ~$2000 and thats not counting the 1200 Watt PSU needed to run that behemoth which will cost another $600. Here’s the thing, If you’re gonna have such a power house, then you need to get yourself an ATI 4870×2 ($300 each?) along with a Dell 2408WFP monitor (~$690).

Now if you really have the above system, then might as well go for HD editing…purchase a Matrox.X2 (~$1500) and a SATA storage toward of 8TB (~$1500)…then you’re ballin

I’m prob not going to do that…

My most likely upgrade in October will be:
- Intel Core2Quad 6600 an P35 based mobo (now that P45 is out P35 is cheaper)
- ATI 4850 video card
- Dell 2408WFP Monitor

Perhaps before the end of the year I’ll get myself a Matrox RT.X2 if I end up with an HVX170.