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Thread ID: 32582	2003-04-23 03:49:00	Video editing hardware suggestions? Help!!	stuffed (1469)	Press F1

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138070	2003-04-24 00:29:00	Dell Dimension 4300 – purchased Nov 01 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TV Out (Dell) Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442 40 GB HD XP Home Also have a TV tuner card – ex DSE Had a battle when first got the PC to find out how to get video in – eventually got a “dongle” and programme from Harvey Norman – the USB devise has video and audio in – the programme is MGI Video Wave 111.	stuffed (1469)
138071	2003-04-24 01:09:00	I think the biggest problem with your hardware might be the USB device. I don't think USB2.0 was out in late 2001, so even if the video/audio in device supports USB2.0, it might be running at the much slower speed of USB1.1. If you use a digital video camera, with IEEE1394 (FireWire) support, I'd buy a FireWire add-on card - that'll get the video to your computer extremely fast. I think you'll also find that the software is MGI VideoWave III (as in three, not 111).	agent (30)
138072	2003-04-24 03:12:00	I would recommend getting: A good video card with at least 64Mb of RAM. 128Mb would last you many years I bet. Or get one of those Radeon cards with tv capture/tv out/dv in/dv out/ on them as well. Maybe a separate card for all that...not my specialty yet :) A fast and big hard drive, mentioned earlier. Serial ATA (SATA) would be better too. Check if your motherboard has that capability as well. At least 512Mb of ram. DDR or the newest PC stuff would be perfect. A dvd writer, cos what are you going to do with your finished videos? Delete them? I think not :) You could save on the dvd writer if you had a cd-r, and u encoded to DivX or VCD everytime u wanted to save to cd. Processor, I know from experience last night, a 1.5ghz Celeron is useless for encoding and video editing. Too slow!! Get the best you can afford and go for Athlon XP. Cheers, PôWâ	PoWa (203)
138073	2003-04-24 03:16:00	I disagree about the video card with 64mb of RAM. It isn't necessary, as all you're handling is video. Even onboard or an 8mb AGP video card would be enough. The fast video cards with lots of RAM is mostly used for 3d games, as they require the images to be rendered, and to be processed a lot. Video editing will not require that feature. SATA is a good idea, however is a bit on the expensive side at the moment I guess.	somebody (208)
138074	2003-05-03 09:38:00	Try getting a PCI Card (firewire) ( I brought one of these for about $78 I think from Dick Smith - 3 external 1 internal connection). (A digital vid cam would be better), with a firewire connection and firewire (400-480x speed), would be faster, than Video in and out. (I use a P4 1700 mhz here), with 1gb ram, and the hdd is only 20gb atm. I may get a bigger hdd later. Or just get a motherboard that has firewire built in. Video in and out I would say wouldnt be that fast or that good in quality. Digital video cam videos, would be as good as DVD. Well, thats if u can afford a digital vid cam, (some are round $999.00 now). I use Mainactor 5 as the video editing program (the site is the same). It's only a demo on the site tho. When u use firewire, you can record whatever, use a program like this, load the video thru the program, edit it (with titles etc), then send it back to the video cam. The only thing is digital video cam cassettes, cant be put into a normal video adapter. You have to play the video thru the cam, then record it onto the normal videotape.....But it's a piece of cake...	Spacemannz (808)
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