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ADK Video Editing offers Adobe video editing software
Please call us to discuss your needs rather than buying on the internet.
Each Studio has different needs, from home videos to feature-length films, from editing to live streaming, as well as capturing and broadcasting live events. Each need requires sometimes a vasty different setup and budget.

With that in mind we found it impossible to individually list all possible configurations for each need and therefore have the system configurators so that we may design a system based on your needs.

Most Event Videographers will find their needs met with some form of our Core i7 Quad, for maximum stream count, effects and medium Animation a Quad Core is tough to beat.

We delivery "Turnkey" systems. What does that mean for You
 For professional producers who run large numbers of streams and effects, serious Animation, or uncompressed HD, and want maximum performance you may want to consider the Dual Quad Xeon (8 CPUs).

For home videos or as an extra rendering/capture box the IP-DVC packs a punch without knocking out your wallet.
IP-DVC
3800 Core i7 Quad
5500
MacPro
HD-Juggernaut
From $1327 From $2350 From $2979 From $2495 From $10,651
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Intel Core i7 Quad Intel Core i7 Quad Intel Dual Quad Xeon Intel Dual Quad Xeon Intel Xeon Dual Quad for HD
Affordable Power Time Tested Workhorse Broadcast Capable Fast Animation Renders Ultimate Power
  • Up to 293 GHz Core i7 Quad
  • Up to 16 GB DDR-2 1066 RAM
  • Intel P55 chipset
  • Up to 3TB Source/Render Drives
  • Dual Layer DVD+RW/CD-RW
  • Dual, Triple or Quad DVI Graphics
  • Windows 7
  • Up to 2 yr Inclusive Warranty
  • Lifetime Tech Support
  • Available in tower or Rack
  • Xtreme Quieting available
  • Up to 3.6 gHz Intel Quad Core
  • Up to 12GB DDR-3 1600 Memory
  • Intel X58 Chipset
  • Up to 8TB Source/Render Drives
  • Dual Layer DVD+RW/CD-RW
  • Dual, Triple or Quad DVI Graphics
  • Windows 7
  • Up to 2 yr Inclusive Warranty
  • Lifetime Tech Support
  • Available in tower or Rack
  • Xtreme Quieting available
  • Up to 2 3.3GHz Nehalem Xeon Quad
  • Up to 96GB DDR3 1333 RAM
  • Broadcast, Switching, and Steaming
  • SATA RAID Available
  • Dual Layer DVD+RW/CD-RW
  • Dual, Triple or Quad DVI Graphics
  • Win 7
  • Up to 2 yr Inclusive Warranty
  • Lifetime Tech Support
  • Available in tower or Rack
  • Xtreme Quieting available
  • Up to 2 2.93GHz Nehalem Xeon Quad
  • Up to 32GB DDR3 1066 memory
  • Broadcast, Post
  • Up to 3 x 2TB Video Drives
  • 16x SuperDrive
  • PCI Express graphics card
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Up to 2 yr Inclusive Warranty
  • Lifetime Tech Support
  • Includes keyboard and mouse
  • Up to 2 3.3GHz Nehalem Xeon Quad
  • Up to 96GB DDR-3 1333 RAM
  • Intel 5400XT Chipset
  • Up to 16TB Source/Render Drives
  • Dual Layer DVD+RW/CD-RW
  • Dual Head Graphics
  • Windows 7
  • Up to 2 yr Inclusive Warranty
  • Lifetime Tech Support
  • Available in Rack mount only
  • Xtreme Quieting available
For video editing systems we recommend a minimum of three hard drives.
One for the operating system and programs,
One (or raid set) for source files and capturing,
and the third (or raid set) for rendering (final output).
you never want to read and write from the same drive

You may also want to consider adding an archival or backup drive to protect your work from disaster. An internal drive is slightly faster, doesn't take up space on your desk, and in a pinch it can substitute for a source or render drive if needed. However, if anything truly nasty happens to the computer, its internal drives can all be damaged. An external drive, though it does take up some desk space, can be easily detached from the computer and stored in a safe location until it is needed. A removeable hard drive bay combines the best features of these two types of drive. The drive bay connects as an internal hard drive for speed and space, but it can be easily removed (from the outside of the case) for storage.

When it comes to hard drive space, more is usually better, especially as hard drive prices continue to more affordable. While DV video doesn't really take up all that much space, if you are running uncompressed and/or HD video, you can quickly fill drives. More importantly is HDD thruput The following chart shows the approximate drive space usage for several common types of video:

DV/Firewire 13 gigs/hour and 25mbits (3.6MBps) thruput, HDV(thru firewire) is the same




For an editor who works with uncompressed or HD video, we recommend using a minimum of two pairs of SATA drives, with each pair in a RAID0 array.
RAID0 stripes two or more hard drives together for increased performance, combining their capacity into what the operating system and video editing software will see as one large drive.
the following drive setups (raid Arrays) will give you a thruput idea for what you need based on what format you intend to work with.

single Sata 7200 RPM 100meg/s
2 Sata 7200 in raid 0 160meg/s
4 Sata 7200 in raid 0 with a good controller card 400meg/s
Sonnet External Raid (8 drive) or similar 575meg/s