(1) You may or may not use it, depending on your camera. I used its predecessor for years in a church with a camera mounted in an inaccessible place. The camera sent its live video to the Matrox which converted it in real time (captured) to a file that I then edited with Premiere Pro 1.5. I think some customers may also use the Matrox while playing back analog video tapes to convert them to files.
Now I also do event videography - but my cameras record directly to its hard drive and those files are copied to the computer - no Matrox card is needed in that case. (2) When I installed the Matrox back then, I recall the Matrox manual is very fussy about how many drives are installed (three) and installing them on specific controllers. That is, the motherboard had two controllers each of which can handle two drives, a total of four. It was important allocating which drive to which controller. I can only assume the X2 has the same requirements since I am sure the allocation is done to maximize performance. (3) "Editing" cards? I didn't know there was such a thing, unless you actually mean a "capture" card. But aren't capture cards for analog only since, I guess, with digital one merely copies the files? Actually I'm not sure about tape formats because I never used a camera with tape. Anyway, you may not need one, depending on your cameras. (4) More about your (2), naturally you'll want a lot of memory and I have 4TB's of disk space; it is surprising how fast it fills up. The way to go today is Windows 64-bit or equivalent - I have 32 bit and seem to be running into 32-bit limits all the time. I guess a graphics card can help some things, but the primary work with video editing is the rendering & encoding, which consume a lot of CPU processing time, thus you'll want a fast quad or better. Video editing doesn't really require the fastest "gamers" video card, but it should be half-way decent. (5) One of the most intriguing advances lately is with the just released Intel i7 processors. One of its new features is the addition of over 50 new instructions, some of which are aimed directly at improving video encoding. I haven't read any reviews how much faster it might be, but the reviewers indicate we'll likely see significantly faster rendering & encoding. Hoping this helps Lee From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hojibobo_uzb Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] Advice on MATROX X2 and Recommend configuration Hi people, I am planing to buy a Video Editting Workstation (PC) with MATROX X2 card Is there any person who uses this card or have knowlege about it? 1) Can you share your experonce and give me yr advice about it? and (2) What are you recomending for Confugurations of other component(motherboard, Ram, HDD, Graphics), I need something which runs smoth and whithout problem? Workstation is for Event videography (Wedding Editing) (3)Suggestions for other Edittng cards are olso Welcome (Which runs with Premier). Thank You [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
