I would usually recommend against this, but it seems to work for us. We use Dicreet Edit* 5. We have two edit bays that use it. The Celerons are a great and cheap solution for really profossional editing on a very tight budget. We had to make sure they would be stable enough under NT and they are doing their part. I don't know of any other solution that can be as inexpensive and get the job done as this one.
The one unfortunate thing about Edit is that you have to have the Matrox Digidesktop in order to have Video overlay in the Edit* Preview and Playback windows. When we use the G400 all we can do is use the Digitools over program on top of the Edit* program. I hear that Edit version 6 will have the options of having more than 1 display adapter that can overlay in the program itself. I guess we won't find out until NAB.
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I would usually recommend against this, but it seems to work for us. We use Dicreet Edit* 5. We have two edit bays that use it. The Celerons are a great and cheap solution for really profossional editing on a very tight budget. We had to make sure they would be stable enough under NT and they are doing their part. I don't know of any other solution that can be as inexpensive and get the job done as this one.
The one unfortunate thing about Edit is that you have to have the Matrox Digidesktop in order to have Video overlay in the Edit* Preview and Playback windows. When we use the G400 all we can do is use the Digitools over program on top of the Edit* program. I hear that Edit version 6 will have the options of having more than 1 display adapter that can overlay in the program itself. I guess we won't find out until NAB.
Here are the systems we are using right now
BP6 dual 366 o'c 550
256 MB PC133
4 IBM 37.5 GB 5400 rpm HD =
1 20GB UDMA 66 5400rpm Audio Drive
Matrox Digisuite LE
Matrox Digidesktop
2 19" monitors
2nd system
BP6 dual 366 o'c 550
256 MB PC133
4 Maxtor 40GB 5400rpm
1 20GB UDMA 66 5400rpm Audio Drive
Matrox Digisuite LE
Matrox G400
2 19" monitors
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