Alienware

cweath wrote on 5/20/2002, 11:43 AM
Exploring video editing on the PC side. Old Mac guy - we have 3 Media100s at work. VV looks promising. Don't like Premiere at all and Avid Express DV is too much buck for the bang.

Anyway, is anyone running VV on an Alienware machine? I'm enthusiastic about them because of their documentation on the installed configuration. I must admit that all the (supposed?) difficulties in configuring PCs for editing bothers me.

TIA. Great forum.

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Chienworks wrote on 5/20/2002, 11:53 AM
Just a suggestion, but you can download the Vegas demo and try it for free on your systems for as long as you wish. This should let you determine if it will run properly or not.

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/download/step1.asp?CatID=1

Personally, i find Vegas delightful. However, i'm running it on a home built PC, so i can't answer your question.
kkolbo wrote on 5/20/2002, 8:04 PM
I find it runs well on soooooo many configurations. It is on a home built for me to as well as I have used it on my old Dell laptop. When something this powerful will run on so many generic homebuilt (never the same) boxes, they must be doing something right. I agree, just pop down the demo and give it a crack.

Keith
Ron_Allen wrote on 5/20/2002, 10:02 PM
I have VV3a up and running on an Area 51. It is my main machine. It is a 2Ghz box with 512meg ram, 80 gig system drive and twin 80 gig firewire drives for media. I have the pinnacle IEEE 1394 card that Alienware supplies (not the deluxe but the $80 3 port card) and an NVidia GForce3 t500.

I have only had VV on it for about a week now BUT it is incredible ... I am new to NLE work but I find that everything I try ,and I have gotten some pertty intensive layering and effects depth, plays smooth and does not need pre-rendering. It is VERY nice to see these things inreal time !! The rendering sometimes takes a while but only when I have gotten to far afield with my FX stuff ...

I also run VV on my laptop and the difference is like night and day.

The folks at Alienware are helpful and will go out of their way to be sure your system WORKS ... and the manual is superb. Hope this helps ...
chap415 wrote on 6/6/2002, 11:05 AM
I just bought an MJ-12 with 2 Xeon processors at 1.8 Mhz and 1 GB of RAM with XP Pro. VV3 had a couple errors here and there (i had bought a somewhat older boxed version. I went to the site and downloaded the newest 3.0a build 107 version which fixed a few errors, and now the system works great. i had some dropped frames during capture, but a post on either here or creativecow.net said that removing the ethernet cable helped, so i did that and haven't dropped a frame since.

Alienware tech support is 24/7, their website is great and their systems are monstrous. have you ever rendered a 7 minute video with heavy graphics/transitions and effeects in 15 minutes? it is a likable thing!

chap