Video editing and graphic design PC - your options are lacking

[dancingmatt]

Hi Scan

I've been a fan of yours for some time and thought I would point this out...

I'm looking to spend about £1600 on a PC to run Adobe Master Collection CS4, doing video and animation with Premiere Pro and After Effects, and some print design work with InDesign and so on.

If I go to your 3XS site and click on Video Editing, I get one PC and a table of editing options including Premiere Pro 2.0, which has been superceded at least twice. If I click compare these systems under "torque" I get a page listing nothing. And at the top it says 02.01.90 - is that meant to be a date?

Simply put, I'm afraid I can't take you seriously if you're listing one PC, admittedly from this month, against such old software. If you hadn't updated that PC in the last month I'd think you'd forgotten to check your sites links in the last 2 years. So I'll be shopping elsewhere, unless you can spec me a PC with a lot of power for video encoding, graphics card that helps with Adobe encoding, a solid state startup drive, and the capability for a RAID 0 array to run media caching and so on, for about £1600. I'm looking at some from Mesh at the moment.

Hope you can help

Matt

[Chris P]

dancingmatt

Thank you for the feedback.

I can see what you mean in terms of the advertised Editing options, they are out of date and will be updated shortly. I can assure you that SCAN can build a PC to meet your requirements and the available hardware options listed via the Configure link are up to date.

We are working on a suitable specification and will send a quotation through to you shortly.

Please PM me with your contact details.

Best Regards

[Pete the Painter]

Hi Scan

I've been a fan of yours for some time and thought I would point this out...

I'm looking to spend about £1600 on a PC to run Adobe Master Collection CS4, doing video and animation with Premiere Pro and After Effects, and some print design work with InDesign and so on.

If I go to your 3XS site and click on Video Editing, I get one PC and a table of editing options including Premiere Pro 2.0, which has been superceded at least twice. If I click compare these systems under "torque" I get a page listing nothing. And at the top it says 02.01.90 - is that meant to be a date?

Simply put, I'm afraid I can't take you seriously if you're listing one PC, admittedly from this month, against such old software. If you hadn't updated that PC in the last month I'd think you'd forgotten to check your sites links in the last 2 years. So I'll be shopping elsewhere, unless you can spec me a PC with a lot of power for video encoding, graphics card that helps with Adobe encoding, a solid state startup drive, and the capability for a RAID 0 array to run media caching and so on, for about £1600. I'm looking at some from Mesh at the moment.

Hope you can help

Matt

Hi Matt,

If you take a look at the configurable options that are available for the 3XS Slipstream Editing system it is possible to configure a system that will fit in around your budget of £1600. I have configured a system based around your requirements, the only option I have omitted is the Operating System as I'm unsure what you would prefer.

Regarding the editing options I can assure you that Premiere 2.0 is not a configurable option as we currently have it listed with CS4 versions of the software.

3XS - Core i7 Slipstream - Updated November '09
* LN9036 120mm AK-183-L2B Akasa Amber Case Fan, 3 Pin, 2 Ball Bearing , Ultra Quiet and Long life
* LN28115 128GB Corsair, Extreme Series X128 MLC-Flash, 2.5" SSD, SATA II, Read 240MB/s, Write 170MB/s, Retail
* LN25296 3XS X58 Core i7 System
* LN7924 45cm Akasa Rounded Floppy Drive Cable
* LN28751 2 x 500GB Samsung HD502HJ Spinpoint F3, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ, OEM
* LN28538 650 Corsair Professional HX650W Watt modular power supply with 80PLUS Bronze certification
* LN26794 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3, PC3-12800 (1600), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, Classic, CAS 8, XMP
* LN25446 896MB XFX GTX 260 Black 55nm, 2000MHz GDDR3, GPU 680MHz, Shader 1440 MHz, 216 Cores, + Batman
* LN29253 Acronis True Image Home 2010 HDD Backup & Restore Software - Protect your lovely data
* LN17842 Akasa 8 Pin (F) to 8 Pin (2x4 Pin) (M) Extension cable (30cm) (End to End) AK-CB8-8-EXT
* LN27847 Akasa AK-ICR-07S 3.5" Internal Multi Card Reader Incl. M2, Micro SD & USB port
* LN22557 Akasa Omega - Black Aluminum Case Alu door & IO Inc HD Audio, ESATA & 2 x 12cm Lo-noise fans
* LN28427 Asus P6TD Deluxe, Intel X58, Sok 1366, PCI-E 2.0(x16), DDR3 2000/1800/1600, SATA 3Gb/s RAID, ATX
* LN27163 Intel i7 920, D0 SLBEJ S1366, Bloomfield, 2.66 GHz, QPI 4.8GT/s, 8MB Cache, 20x Ratio, 130W, Retail
* LN17415 MS OFFICE 2007 25 Usage/60 Day TRIAL Basic,SBE & Professional
* LN29054 2 x Prolimatech Megahalems Super 6 Heatpipe Tower Cooler for *NEW* 1156 & 775/1366 (Fanless)
* LN1272 Scan 3XS System - 1year Onsite Warranty (Mainland UK)
* LN176 Scan System Configuration
* LN10425 Silverstone FP51B aluminium Black 3.5" to 5.25" Bay Adaptor
* LN27320 Sony AD-7240S-0B 24x DVD±R, 12xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RWx6 ,12xRAM SATA, Black, OEM


Total
£1,600.75 Excluding your choice of Operating System.

Obviously there are some options in there you may need to change but it is possible to order a high end video editing system for around £1600

As you can see I opted for a 128GB Extreme SSD and 2 x 500GB HDDs that can be configured as raid 0 should you choose to do so. The other option you may choose to change at your discretion would be the VGA card.

I'll arrange for the older images and text for Premiere to be removed to save any confusion.


Regards,


Pete