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 Member 277 Level 15.11 Mar 2006 
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Solid state disks would actually be a hinderance with video. Hard drives are still where it's at.
 In any event, CPU and RAM are the big dogs when you're working with video, especially a long-GOP MPEG-2 codec like HDV. Disk speed won't matter so much, as it's 25Mbit/s just like DV. I guess you'll occasionally be using intermediate codecs from programs like After Effects where more disk speed would be helpful, but generally any SATA 7200RPM drive out today would be fine. If you're planning on dealing with multiple streams of less-compressed HD you'd want a RAID-0 array for scratch storage of captured assets. The new apps tend to be multi-core aware, so I'd say a quad-core Intel Core 2 chip and 4GB of RAM would be a good place to start. Graphics don't matter as much unless you're going to be using GPU-accelerated programs, so a mid-level graphics board will be fine—the new Radeon HD 3850 is quite a good deal at only $150 and would provide for plenty of oomph in hardware-accelerated decoding or compositing. Obviously you'll need Firewire for acquisition, either on your motherboard (more convenient) or on a separate card (less convenient)... Aside from that I don't have much else to recommend. I'm more a fan of Final Cut than Adobe Premiere, but obviously that requires a whole different kind of investment. Jam it back in, in the dark.
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Member 277 Level 15.11 Mar 2006
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Considering that DVI is backwards compatible with HDMI, I don't see the point exactly. Any real broadcast monitoring would require a dedicated input/output card and HD-SDI, so... HDMI wouldn't really net you anything significant.
As for AVISynth and VirtualDub, you'd be surprised how much QuickTime (the framework, not the player) allows for on the "other side of the fence." But it's not quite equivalent, I'll give you that. I think there are other good things about the software, but really it comes down to what you're comfortable with. Knowing the principles of editing is way more important than knowing any one piece of software—software is just buttons you use to accomplish a task. You can learn new software pretty easily if you understand what you're trying to accomplish. There's nowhere I can't reach.
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