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Email: sales@dvc.uk.com - Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9.30-5.30 Premiere Pro SystemsOnline Catalogue | EDITING SYSTEMS | Premiere Pro Systems Different types of Premiere Pro systemA Premiere Pro system can be configured in various ways: - Software only, where you can edit footage from card based and FireWire based cameras, and output in standard definition through FireWire, or use the second head of your graphic card to display the video in full quality, whilst having Adobe Premiere Pro's interface on the main screen. You cannot capture any analogue footage (like VHS or hi8) and you do not get a "proper" HD output from the graphic card. Also most graphic cards can only run two screens so this means you cannot run two PC screens and an HD monitor properly.
- With a Matrox MX02 device - the Matrox MX02 adds extra inputs and outputs to Adobe Premiere and there are special versions which add extra realtime playback and real-time encoding to H264 formats (the MAX versions). You can also run two screens and a video output at the same time. The MX02s give you a proper video reference as well compared to the second screen output you get with no extra device. Click here to read more about the Matrox cards.
- With a Black Magic card - like the Matrox cards these add extra ins and outs to Adobe Premiere Pro, and a relatively cheap. Black Magic cards can be as low as £129+VAT for a card that adds SD and HD ins and outs. Realtime performance is not as good as with the Matrox cards but Black Magic cards cost less than Matrox ones. Click here to read more about the Black Magic cards.
- With an AJA card - AJA produce i/o cards similar to Matrox and Black Magic. They have their own range of effects as well like Matrox, although they are not as nice to use as the Matrox effects. AJAs are particularly good at dealing with still images and animation. They also have cards that will display a better than HD signal to the right kind of screen - the Matrox devices currently only support up to standard HD resolutions. Click here to read more about the AJA cards.
After choosing your output device the next choice is the type of computer. We have i5, i7 and Xeon based computers at a range of different prices and different levels of power. We also have systems with quiet and less-quiet cases and power supplies and a whole variety of different options. The systems listed here are for typical systems but can be completely customised based on your needs. You may also want to look at our editing system options sections for details of more storage options and different types of HD screens you can use with the system. The 3 main types of processor listed are: - I5 System - a dual core processor which is still considerably faster than older computers. The i5 could cope with both SD and HD editing. This is the lowest cost option we currently offer but does not mean it is under powered!
- I7 Sandybridge system - the Sandybridge family of processors are the latest advance from Intel. Most of our new systems are now based on Sandybridge processors. The Sandybridge i7s take RAM chips in multiples of 2 chips which is why a Sandybridge system will have 8GB or 16GB RAM. The Sandybridge processors have a special feature called Intel Quicksync which basically does very fast encoding of HD footage into H264 for Blu-ray discs. Presently only Grass Valley EDIUS takes advantage of this, Premiere Pro does not and we do not know if it is something they will implement at some point. If Adobe do implement this then you will have the hardware ready to use it!
- I7 Enthusiast system - this uses a new type of processor released in December 2011. The i7 Enthusiast processor can use more RAM and has more cores than the i7 Sandybridge system, and cost a little more as a result. 64bit Premiere Pro can take advantage of this extra power in a way that 32bit Grass Valley EDIUS does not. For EDIUS we would recommend that you stay with the i7 Sandybridge because the Intel Quicksync feature only found in the Sandybridge processors means EDIUS can encode to H264 a lot faster with this kind of processor. However as Premiere does not use Quicksync it will encode a lot fast on the i7 Enthusiast. Just to be difficult the real name for the i7 Enthusiast is an i7 Sandybridge Enthusiast - both the i7s we sell are Sandybridge ones but to try explain the differences we are calling the Quick-sync i7 a Sandybridge and the newer processer the Enthusiast.
- Nehalem Xeon - this has two processors (the i5 and i7 are one physical processor with several "cores"). There are Quad core and Six-core versions of these processors. To get a system with is significantly better than the Sandybridge i7 we would recommend buying a Six-core Xeon (which are the more expensive ones). The processors have a feature called HYPERTHREADING which means that even if a processor has 6 cores it acts like it has 8 cores. This means a dual 6 core system with actually have 24 cores (brains) You would hope that as there is twice as much power in the Xeon as there is in the i7 it would be twice as fast, but unfortunately computers are not that simple. A Xeon system is on average 30-40% more powerful than the i7. If you want the fastest computer you can get then you should buy a Xeon system.
To read more about the different processors see our "computer technology explained" section.
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