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To: HerbVic who wrote (24187)	4/20/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Andrew Danielson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

OT: <<May I assume that the Premiere/EditDV/FCP level of program would work sufficiently for budgeted beginner editor's targeting television as an audience>> Absolutely. Heck, do what I did: get a DV video camera, buy EditDV and its corresponding firewire card, and edit away! You can make broadcast-level video with nothing more than that (After Effects helps, too). The main issue is that you spend most of your life staring at the monitor while your computer renders your video. The higher-end systems are "real time" (i.e., basic rendering is processed in real time, where a 1-second dissolve takes 1 second to render, etc.) By comparison, a G3-266 running EditDV takes 15-20 seconds to render a 1-second dissolve. When you start dealing with After Effects and lots of complex animations and composites, you could easily create a 10-second piece that will taken 5 or 10 hours to render. For this level of system, yes the camera is the most expensive part it. The VX-1000 Sony model I purchased runs about $3,200. The Canon XL-1 is another popular miniDV model. There are also higher-end DV cameras that use variations to the format, called DV-CAM and DVCPro. These cameras can run $10-20,000+. The difference comes from higher-quality lenses, better CCD's, etc. They'll have better low-light capability, and other features that make producing good-quality video that much easier. However, the quality of the recording format is still the same (CAM and Pro, as formats, are only different in the tape used to record, as they are larger and less susceptible to wear-and-tear) Meanwhile, besides the computer, the applications can set you back a bit too. EditDV is around $700, After Effects $650 (the higher-end production bundle version is over $1,000). Then of course you need massive hard drives (not bad if you have an IDE-based G3 instead of the more expensive SCSI). Just add an external NTSC monitor, S-VHS VCR for making master copies, and a digital media converter so you can handle analog-sourced video, and you're set! :-) All told, a low-end professional DV set-up will cost you around $10,000. Finally, you are absolutely right about the fact that we are on the verge of a video revolution. DV is like the computer. The computer gives people the power to print their ideas, works, etc. without the exorbitant barriers to entry that used to restrict such things to big-time publishers. DV, while more expensive than simply buying a computer and printer, does the same thing for video: takes the means of production out of the hands of a few and brings it to the public. Kinda casts a different meaning to the term "mass media!" Andrew