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need help with home pc video editing config

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jvigiljr

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Ok, please forgive the naiveness of my question. I'm not even sure if this is the right forum. I am going to attempt to build my first video editing PC. I have only ever built one other PC for my kid and it worked out just fine. I used an MSI MB and AMD XP processor for it.

Anyway, here's what I want to do. I would like to build a relatively inexpensive PC to capture DV from a camorder, edit it on a PC, and then record to dvd. When i say inexpensive, I mean 500-600 bucks. not including a monitor. I knw in the past, if you wanted to convert analag to some digital format you had to have the appropriate PCI card (like pinnacle) to convert it. I know these cards had their own processor and as such sort of alleviated the main CPU from some of the conversion processing. SO my question is, do I still need some high end AGP slotted video display card to perform these tasks? Or will i be able to use the sort of video card function built into some MBs? I ask because the camcorder I plan to record from will probably have firewire built into it. A firewire card is cheaper than a high end video card. What do you folks recommend? any configs that you all have used?

thanks in advance

juan
 
I have a Cannon ZR-60 mini DV camcorder and inport my video via Firewire port. All most all of the mini DV camcorders out their import via Firewire. You will need either a firewire port on the mb or a add in PCI firewire card (this is my route). You can pick up one on the net with the cable to connect to the Video camera for about $12 shipped. I use Pinnacle Studio verion 8 (very good program) to do the editing and burning to a DVD burner. I would recomend either a very large hard drive or two seperate hard drives. Video editing uses a lot of Hard Drive space! Aprox 20 gb for 2 hours of video at Highest bitrate conversion (best quality). Also It is SLOW!!!! Importing is in real time but converting and getting it ready to burn to the DVD takes a LOT of TIME. A two hour video on my computer takes aprox 6 hours to convert!!! Needless to say I start it when I go to sleep. My pc is a P4 2GH with 512mb ram and 60 GB hd for the video drive.
 
You don't really need a high-end vid card. You do need a fast CPU and lotsa RAM, and even more storage space. Also, a Firewire card.
 
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