System Recommendations for Edius HD?

[Bobinator]

I would appreciate any system recommendations for building a Edius HD system which will be used for Weddings & Events mainly, I want it to be fast and have plenty of HDD with Bluray burner, authoring etc.

TIA

[SRsupport]

If you check the hardware forum there are really lots and lots of post on this please read a few. There is valuable info there.

[STORMDAVE]

Also a lot of people post their specs in their signatures.

[Bassman]

The first place to start is your budget.

Once that is known we will gladly help you spend your money!

[Bobinator]

Edius System Budget $3-$K

I would want the system rackmountable if not adding alot of cost or not practical.

TIA

[Bobinator]

Edius System Budget $3-$4K

I would want the system rackmountable if not adding alot of cost or not practical.

TIA

[gdame]

Are you building it yourself or looking for a turnkey solution?

[Bobinator]

Frys would likely build it

Frys to save money, I wouldn't trust myself to build it and turnkey would be expensive unless you know of someone in L.A. area that isn't high dollar turnkey.

[mark williams]

As mentioned look at the signatures then go to avadirect.com and price out a system using their configurator. Mine was about $1,500 for high quality componets. Add to that about $750 for Edius 5 with Spark card and $300 for HDTV preview monitor. Already had a computer monitor, amp and speakers.

[Bassman]

Bobinator, Any luck?

I would stick to Intel i7 or Xeon processors, go with 12GB of ram and Windows 7 64bit.

Asus motherboards have a good rep with Canopus. But I have used Gigabyte for my last three builds and they have worked fine.

Video card is not so crucial, just get a modern decent card.

I use an external RAID card hooked up to 4-bay external drive enclosures. This way I only need to turn them on when I am editing and I don't have my case filled to the gills with HDs heating up the place.

As far as internal drives, at the core I have an OS drive, a "My Documents" drive, a pagefile/storage drive. I also have a duplicate of each drive, a clone for the OS and synchronized copied of the rest. So if there is an issue, I can swap a drive and keep on running.

This is made easier with a hot-swap bay (along with the drives being setup in AHCI mode). I can slide a drive in, backup and slide it back out.

You probably already know about this stuff but I am sharing because it does need to be planned for when building a system.

Keep us updated.

[gdame]

Frys to save money, I wouldn't trust myself to build it and turnkey would be expensive unless you know of someone in L.A. area that isn't high dollar turnkey.

Bobinator,

I do not list a rackmount solution in my offerings but it looks like I might be providing STORMDAVE with one in that price range. This will be also delivered to California as that is where he is. So, I could build two and ship one to you.

PM me for further details.