Non-Linear Video Editing Systems

When I arrived at the station the news department was still using analog video editing systems.  I implemented a computer based non-linear video editing system in two phases.  The first system was comprised of high-end HP workstations running Windows XP Professional and using Adobe Premeire Pro 2.0 for the video editing.  Using video capture expansion cards installed in the workstations analog video was played out from a tape deck, and captured and converted into a digital video file onto the computer.  From there the video was then copied over to a Windows Server 2003 video NAS device for storage.  The users then imported the video to create news stores destined for on-air playback.  Once the news story was completed the video file was saved locally, then a batch file was run and the video was sent to two on-air playback servers using FTP, as well as two news archive servers.  The second system that was installed used a similar platform, Windows XP with Adobe Premiere Pro, but the hardware was changed.  The new workstations were designed with the assistance of a video production company out of Kansas City.  The workstations had faster processors, more memory, higher end video card, and Matrox Video Capture Cards.  In addition to the new hardware, I implemented the use of Acronis Snap Deploy Imaging system.  This allowed me to take an image of the system at any point and redeploy an image to the system if something catastrophic were to happen.  This actually allowed me to configure one system then push that image out to the remaining systems.  This reduced the overall time it would have taken me to restore the system back to a workable state.  The entire system was running over a 1Gb backbone using Cat6 Ethernet, that I installed prior to the first install phase.