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1340788 2013-05-12 03:26:00 Windows XP Professional SP3

Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz

2.77?? GB RAM
Zippity (58)
1340789 2013-05-12 03:45:00 All of those apps are purely CPU rendering for what you want, I believe.

Upgrade mobo and CPU, don't worry about graphics card then unless you're going to be editing the video and rendering it in something like h.264.

Going 64-bit will be nice too...
Chilling_Silence (9)
1340790 2013-05-12 04:22:00 Yeh, time to upgrade. So the first thing you really need to know, is if all the existing software/hardware you want to use on your new build will work on Win 7 or 8 whatever you are upgrading to. Or are you going to stick with XP? I nice little i5 combo (motherboard, CPU, memory) should do the trick. Whats your budget? Iantech (16386)
1340791 2013-05-12 05:50:00 Yup all those work on Win7, tried them myself :) Chilling_Silence (9)
1340792 2013-05-12 06:03:00 A 64 bit program would help too, but they're not cheap. Videostudio x6 was good enough for me. Too bad its not 64 bit tho. But, it did what I wanted to do (xfer video from a cam with firewire / then edit it).

Like it how it can edit MP4 too. Its the only program I've found so far that can load the MP4 files I've recorded with this DishTV receiver

That winxdvd program may load them, but I havent downloaded / tried it yet
Speedy Gonzales (78)
1340793 2013-05-12 07:58:00 Even an i3 would feel like a quantum leap in performance from a Pentium 4, there's been 4 complete processor families since then if I'm counting right. An i5 would potentially last longer if you have the budget for it though. dugimodo (138)
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