My new DELL arrived (Making Professional Hunting Video)

[MichiganWhitetails74]

Hey guys...boring subject I know...What are your thoughts on this set-up?...I'm still learning PC's for video editted so your opinions are a benefit...

I know this is a smoker of a PC for video editting...HOWEVER...is there anything I should consider along with this set-up?



I will use this PC to run my wedding video sidebusiness & (All my hunting vids)


DELL XPS 420

Intel® Core™2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB)

4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs

Radeon ATI HD 2600 XT 256MB

500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

Dual Drives: 48x Combo + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable

Xcelerator with Hauppauge HVR1250 Hybrid TV Tuner and Remote

[Steven McBee]

hey could you give me links to that pc,thanks

steven

[wahoohunter]

hey bud, I tried to PM you again with a couple more questions but it said your inbox is fullllll

[MichiganWhitetails74]

Steven,

Here you go. My buddy is a computer wizard and he steered me from my HP to this Dell.

What I did was chose the one for $999 and added more RAM & Hard Drive Space. With QUAD CORE

At the bottom of the link youwill see build your ownPC.

Good Luck

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_420?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

[MichiganWhitetails74]

I'll clear the inbox...one sec...

[MichaelHunsucker]

maybe a miniDV deck to capture all your footage so you dont burn up the heads on your camera

[kshunter]

Very Nice! That's a beefy setup.

[FarNorth]

Dude, you got a Dell!
Sorry to hear it though, cause I'm a hardcore Mac user.

[HuntingBry]

I'm a computer geek by profession so here are my thoughts. Everything looks good from a hardware standpoint, but there is a thing or two I would have done differently. First, I would have spread my hardrive space over at least two drives, and most likely 5 so that I could provide RAID or striping for redundancy. Second, the quad core is a little overkill right now because most software isn't capable of taking advantage of it. It's OK, you're ahead of the curve. Third, I love ATI, but NVidia's video cards are kicking their butt right now IMO. It's a good card no doubt.

All in all it is a great machine. The only change I'd consider would be extra hard drives, or an external for backups.

What kind of software are you going to run on it?

[MichiganWhitetails74]

I'm going to carry over Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus....It works well with all the patches


Huntingbry
Can you lead me to a better video editting software that is user friendly?