Pinnacle Studio 10.5/ Liquid Edition


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All our systems can be made very quiet. Our standard video editing system is below 40DB and we can go as low as 12-14 DB.

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Help Choosing the right Video Editing computer for Pinnacle Video Editing Software.

There are 2 basic software packages for editing from Pinnacle.
Studio version 10.5 (mainly for home movies) and Liquid Edition (designed and built for professionals).

Studio version 10.5 is perfect for editing home movies, and with the Studio Movie Box USB, your analog capture and output needs are met.

Pinnacle Studio 9 gives you every tool you need to easily capture video to your computer, edit it, add titles, music, narration and special effects and then output a finished movie back to videotape, DVD and the web. For Studio an OS drive and a video drive are recommended. We do not suggest a single drive, as this will cause bottlenecks and playback problems during a project. For a great experience with Studio 10.5, check out this computer. Avid Liquid Edition 7: Avid Liquid Edition 7 continues the lineage of the famed Pinnacle Liquid Edition series, combining the professional expertise and esteemed broadcast heritage of the Pinnacle Liquid line with the plug and play power and ease of use of Edition, and adding Avid's vast experience with professional video editing software. On top of providing the strong editing features and professionals demand, Liquid Edition delivers tools for impressive realtime compositing, effects, and DVD authoring within the same intuitive interface, with automatic realtime effects rendering for stellar performance. Liquid Edition 7 comes in 2 flavors: Liquid Edition 7 software only: $499 The software only solution can accept input from any DV (FireWire) device, including camcorders or analog converters. Liquid Edition 7 Pro: $939 The Pro bundle includes the awesome Liquid Edition 7 software, as well as the MovieBox Pro, an analog input/output unit that includes component, composite, and s-video, along with S/PDIF and optical audio inputs and outputs through a USB 2.0 interface. Click here for more information. A few things to consider when making a choice for Liquid Edition: If all you will ever use is a DV camera and have no need to output to a television or input from a VHS or analog camcorder then the Liquid Edition software is all you need. However, clients will often bring you analog materials to use in a project, so having the flexibility of the MovieBox Pro can be a very good thing. Liquid Edition can and will take advatage of any higher end 3D graphics card for GPU effects, so you may want to consider a better 3D card if you want to take full advatage of Hollywood FX or other graphically-intense effects packages. Any 3D gaming video card will be effective, but more power brings improved performance in realtime playback. Now to selecting a computer: For video editing systems we recommend a minimum of three hard drives. One for the operating system and programs, one for source files and capturing, and the third for rendering (both temporary and final output). 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 fall. While DV video doesn't really take up all that much space, if you are running uncompressed and/or HD video, you can easily fill a drive or two. The following chart shows the approximate drive space usage for several common types of video: DV/Firewire 13 gigs/hour Uncompressed 77 gigs/hour 1080 24p 330 gigs/hour For an editor who works with uncompressed or HD video, we recommend using 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. For Premiere Pro 1.5, a Matrox RTX2 card is a must for playing back realtime effects and multiple video tracks (unless you prefer to take the time to render every section of your project before viewing). While Premiere Pro 2.0's improved software performance makes playback somewhat better without a Matrox card, you will still notice a great improvement when using one. Depending on your needs and production level we offer the following systems: Single Dual Core P4 or Core 2 Duo: A powerful system that can handle any DV work and HDV as well as some HD. AMD Dual Core 939: Slightly more powerful than the P4, the 939 can handle more effects. AMD Dual Opteron: An even more powerful system, the dual core Opterons can handle just about any project. Dual Xeon: The new Intel dual core and quad core Xeon systems are the most powerful we offer. A dual quad-core system will give you an astounding EIGHT processing cores for maximum power. For projects with two or three video streams, a title or two, and light effects, the P4 or AMD 939 should be more than enough power. For serious production work, high audio/video track counts, and heavy special effects, we recommend a dual Xeon solution. Dual dual-core Xeons will handle most work, and dual quad-cores will tear through any project with ease. For the Intel Core 2 Duo Go here. For the Dual Core AMD 939-pin Go here. For Dual Opteron Go here. For the Dual Quad-core Xeon Go here.