Best Setup for Video Editing Computer
 

I am building a new puter pretty much to run FSX maxed out (although still on XP) and for Premiere Pro video capture/editing/DVD burning.

Dual Core 6700
Intel D975XBX2 (1066 FSB)
2 GB OCZ DDR2 833 Mhz memory
1 Raptor 74GB (10,000/16MB/4.5/SATA-150)
1 250 GB drive for misc (7200/16MB/SATA-3G)
2 500 GB drives (7200/16 MB/SATA-3G) that I'm going to RAID O
XP Professional

Anyone have any idea which would be better to install Premiere on? The Raptor or the RAID?

I'd consider putting it on the misc drive. Use the Raptor as your scratch drive, the RAID for final work and your misc drive as your program drive.

Don't put any programs on the Raptor and keep it defragged as much as possible.

Invest in a good video card as well. Pair it with a good quality monitor as well. Bare minimum for a video card's onboard memory for FSX/Video Editting is 256MB and a nice 20" or bigger widescreen LCD display.

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8703e/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/104)

Buy a Mac Pro and install Final Cut Pro. ;)

With all of those drives, you might want to consider a cooling fan or two if they're running in the same case. The amount of heat (and noise!) produced by a 10K drive is greatly higher than that of a 7200K unit.

Thanks for all the thoughtful responses
 

ScottC - very interesting idea...had not considered that at all, but after working through the various configurations possible I really like this one the best. Thank you! :-:

fromYYZ_flyer - I'm thinking two SLI'd GeForce 8800 GTX's paired along with my new Samsung 22" wide (2ms response!) will do the job for Premiere, and give me cavities from all the eye candy on FSX! :) Only drawback is I will not get DX10 since I'm going to allow others to suffer through all the V$sta headaches until that hangover is cured @:-)

iwebslinger - hey dotbomb refugee in a tee and jeans, aren't you supposed to be memorizing script for next mac v pc commercial? ;) In all seriousness, I began with an Apple II many eons ago, but PC software, component array/modularity, etc., issues just outweigh any possibility of a MAC for me.

Somewhere over the Atlantic - definitely lots of cooling fans and a snazzy, lightweight aluminum case by Gigabyte which can also go liquid, but I don't think that will be necessary. It also has a light beam that projects the Gigabyte logo in neon blue onto the surface of whatever computer is on Check it out. :cool:

Thanks again folks. I'm putting it together early a.m. and gonna play with it til dawn!

I wish I was that skinny. :) Why Premier?

Yes....Much better and easier.

I've been using Adobe products of various flavors for nearly 20 years now...even though they do different things the "flow" and the interface are pretty similar for all of them and Premiere was no different. Very little learning curve for me with it and it does everything (and then some) I need or want it to do.

Keep the Raid drive for your video. Install Premiere on the miscellaneous drive.

If you're editing DV-codec AVI video (DV-25 standard, as you would get from miniDV), you do not need 7200 rpm drives.

I don't recommend using a computer graphics card for editing. The gamma of a computer monitor is very different from NTSC/PAL television and it's nearly impossible to do accurate correction using one. Instead, get an inexpensive miniDV camcorder with AV passthrough. Connect it to your computer via 1394/Firewire and use the video outs to connect to a good-quality television monitor. Premiere is capable of real-time output via 1394 and, this way, what you see on the television monitor is what you get.

I actually use two television monitors connected in this fashion. One is a small broadcast-quality television monitor, the other is just a decent-quality television. This way, I get a very accurate image on the broadcast monitor, but can also see if anything is lost when the project shows up on a traditional television.