DVGear Pro-ONE. (Editing Computers).

 
$4,060 
 
DVGear 
10634 East Riverside Drive 
Suite 130 
Bothell, WA 98011-3758 
(877) 415-0628 
www.dvgear.com 

The first thing you'll notice when you uncrate this DVGear Pro-ONE turnkey system is the contrast between the monolithic cubic black case and the lithe 17-inch LCD fiat panel. This is a very distinctive machine. We were excited about getting our hands on the latest Pinnacle Pro-ONE real-time card in a fully configured Windows XP system. If you want to use Adobe Premiere as your primary video editing tool and are in search of real-time previews, this is one system you should seriously consider.

Peripherals

The 17-inch ViewSonic LCD monitor was the first panel we've seen that made us believe the hype that LCDs may eventually replace our bulky CRT monitors. LCDs can have significant redraw issues, which is important if you need to refresh the screen very quickly, like when playing games or, say, watching video. We used the Pro-ONE breakout box to connect the S-video output to an NTSC television monitor for previews. In this arrangement, we enjoyed taking advantage of the easy-on-the-eyes LCD monitor as our editing workspace next to the reference monitor for previews.

Another thoughtful extra was the EZ-302-P Premiere keyboard with color-coded shortcut keys. We are big fans of learning and using shortcut keys and this keyboard made that process much easier than trying to reference and memorize a shortcut key list.