What will be the resolutions you want to aim in? VGA for your blog? HD? Beta? And what quality?
If your target is high quality output or producing some heavy (long/hi res) material, so you need to work on lossless or hi-res video - you may consider network storage with something like several dozens TB of maximum disk space and some kind of network backbone data piping solution (such kind you can add disks when its needed without fiddling with RAID configuration and that has really fast networking solution). Choosing RAID type for matrix and to have or not to have additional backup storage (like DVDs) is another thing to consider. Not much use when you're doing YT-like vlog, but necessary if you're into any serious, more demanding job and you need to store some lossless data in 1 or 2 years span. This can be "pro" grade matrix, or a recycled PC with a bunch of SATA drives and some extra networking cards - anything from 50 Euro up. To have or not to have smooth video preview is a minor problem, when editing most of the "big" things the disk operations times are critical. What you need depends what size of input/output data you're targeting at, how many things you wish to do at a given time and how much editing do you actually need to do. Cheers, Luke 2010/5/7 grant centauri <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I've recently been exploring cinellera and the possibilities of using a > linux box as a video editing studio. I've got an older machine that i'm > slowly trying to get up to snuff, its a 2.9GHz processor, 1.6 gigs of ram > and an outdated nvidia card (for which openGL is not supported by the new > X11). > > I'm looking into getting myself a new video card so that I can efficiently > view video I am editing, and possibly for actually importing video from > analog sources. I am also curious about how to optimize a video editing > setup and thought maybe some of you would have tips or starting points for > me. Right now I'm using cinellera under the latest Linux Mint distro, but > I've also got a pure:dyne setup that is obviously a bit more stripped down, > and am considering using it as a starting point. > > So if anyone has any suggestions as to what I should look for or what works > well, please let me know. I'd like to try and get near a professional level > using consumer level (mostly purchased from craigslist) hardware. > > Thanks, > > Grant > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
