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| 363236 | 2005-06-12 04:57:00 | Hi everyone, yet another request for help with buying a new PC. I've followed several of the posts on this topic in the last few months but my husband has spied a bargain at Harvey Norman in New Plymouth and the pressure is on. I don't have the fine details of the Harvey Norman system but we have bought our PC's from our local South Taranaki dealer who gives us good service and would like to sort out a system to get from him if possible. I also want to download VHS video camera tapes to edit and save onto DVD. Our camera has just died so we have bought a Canon MV750i digital video camera which can be used to capture the tapes rather than getting a video capture card. In February, Misty ended up with a system along the following lines and I've put down extras I'd like plus some questions. Budget about $2000 + GST. Misty's system: AMD Athlon XP3200 + Processor 64bit Motherboard - Asus K8N nforce3 512MB DDR RAM PC 3200 Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM Harddisk Drive 1.44MB 3.5” Floppy Disk Samsung dual layer 16 x DVD RW Ge-cube 9600 (Pro) 256mb TV out DVI (or ATI Radeon 9550 256MB Graphic card) Integrated Sound 56k INTERNAL v.92 Modem 17” LCD monitor Keyboard, Scroll Mouse, Speakers M/S Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 Extras required: Firewire for connecting Canon digital video camera to PC (I assume this will be quicker than using USB) network card for ADSL modem/router – we have a Canon digital photocopier networked to our PC as well as broadband 160 GB hard drive or 2 x 80 GB – how does having 2 hard drives work – do you run WinXP and programs on one and do the editing on the other, or partition it somehow or what 1024 MB DDR RAM DVD/CD combo drive in addition to the DVD Writer. Replace the DVD RW with a 4x dual layer writer – Pioneer DVR-A08XL, NEC ND3520, ASUS DRW-1604P or other suggestion video capture card for capturing VHS tapes or should I just do it through the video camera optical mouse and wired keyboard Software suggestions would also be useful although most suggestions I have seen favour Ulead Video Studio anyway. The video camera came with Video Presenter 2.1 which won't run on my WinME PC to see what it is like, and I've also seen XP's Movie Maker 2 mentioned as being ok. What about CD/DVD burning software like Ulead DVD Movie Factory or Nero. I'm happy to spend a bit more in this area to get decent software. Improvements to the above are welcome and thanks for your help in advance |
Alison (2911) | ||
| 363237 | 2005-06-12 05:28:00 | to comment on the video editing software, i reccomend Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus or MediaSuite: www.pinnaclesys.com You can do all the usual video editing plus some advanced stuff like chromakey (green screen) |
imarubberducky (7230) | ||
| 363238 | 2005-06-12 06:34:00 | you can ditch the modem and floppy, can i ask why you need an aditional dvd drive? As for software, the stuff that comes with xp is crap. Adobe premire or you could try elements (www.adobe.com) would be my recomendation | plod (107) | ||
| 363239 | 2005-06-12 07:45:00 | What comes with XP is your best possible starting place if you havent done it before (It was poor but the revised Movie Maker 2 is pretty good). From their you can certainly progress upwards though Adobe Premier is not recomended due to cost,steep learning curve and its just pure overkill. If you get a custom built rig then the firewire card will have some bundled software, Usually a Ulead Lite edition, I would suggest tinkering with what comes with the bundle till you get the basics down, then if you feel you need more then download a few of the Ulead demo's and put them through their paces. Havent read your specs but go for an nforce4, any of teh 64-bit edition AMD chips (939-pin) a gig of any ram, at least a basic PCI-E Video card.... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 363240 | 2005-06-12 07:50:00 | Firewire for connecting Canon digital video camera to PC (I assume this will be quicker than using USB) USB 2 is 480mbps Firewire is 400mbps, although I think firewire is set to increase speed soon, depending on the model of your Asus K8N nforce3 it will possibly have a firewire header built in. Double you Hard drive space in the form of a second 80G and run SATA drives I don't think your board supports dual channel memory and it would be better if you chose one that did 2x512Mb = 1GB |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 363241 | 2005-06-12 08:22:00 | Ignore the speed rating, in real world tasks firewire spanks usb2, and Thye devices vcan be automativly controlled over the firewire port. For example just clicking the capture button will not only start the recording process but cause the camera to commence playback. Likewise you can brose,rewind,fast foward your footage on the dv camera from within your capturing/editing,authoring software. And last but not least, every capture I have done using USB2 was restricted to mpeg1 quality,multiple comps and apps, same crap result each time. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 363242 | 2005-06-12 08:47:00 | premier elements is not exspensive, around the $200 mark if not cheaper and it will do everything you need from capture to burn | plod (107) | ||
| 363243 | 2005-06-12 08:54:00 | Motherboard - Asus K8N nforce3 MAke sure its the deluxe model, it has firewire but the standard K8N doesn't. 512MB DDR RAM PC 3200 Double your ram. Samsung dual layer 16 x DVD RW Change to Liteon, Pioneer, or ASUS Ge-cube 9600 (Pro) 256mb TV out DVI (or ATI Radeon 9550 256MB Graphic card) Chnage to 6600GT. network card for ADSL modem/router Built into MB (The A8n-SLI Deluxe has dual lan) 160 GB hard drive or 2 x 80 GB – how does having 2 hard drives work – do you run WinXP and programs on one and do the editing on the other, or partition it somehow or what However you like. DVD/CD combo drive in addition to the DVD Writer. Dumb idea, unnecessary duplication What about CD/DVD burning software like Ulead DVD Movie Factory or Nero. Nero comes with all models, movie factory comes with the ASUS models. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 363244 | 2005-06-12 08:59:00 | Even Nerovision will do whatever u want. It captures directly from a firewire cam, if u use firewire. Well any external device, that it can detect/pick up. And burns most formats to DVD. Well the more space u have for video editing, the better. Capturing video well from any source, the hdd will fill up pretty fast. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 363245 | 2005-06-13 09:14:00 | Even Nerovision will do whatever u want. It captures directly from a firewire cam, if u use firewire. Well any external device, that it can detect/pick up. And burns most formats to DVD. Well the more space u have for video editing, the better. Capturing video well from any source, the hdd will fill up pretty fast. You are right there..I have a dual hard drive system, 400 Gig, which i manage toh vae to clean out regular now, i edit films etc... |
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