I'm considering building a PC primarily for home use but I'd also like to be able to transfer and edit videotapes to DVD. What would be some recommendations for motherboard, chipsets, PSU, etc? I need to keep the budget $700-$800 or so. Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Syar,
Your budget seems to be a bit tight for a machine for video editing, as typically they need a decent wodge of memory and large, fast disk as well as the DVD burner, so are there any components that you can reuse (eg kb, mouse, large hard drive, monitor, floppy, case; do you have a good soundcard with a firewire port or do you need firewire support on the motherboard)?
Given your budget though I would aim for a mid range Athlon with Barton type chipset, NForce2 motherboard - expensive but needed for the editing performance - and at least 512Mb memory, preferably more.
John
Your budget seems to be a bit tight for a machine for video editing, as typically they need a decent wodge of memory and large, fast disk as well as the DVD burner, so are there any components that you can reuse (eg kb, mouse, large hard drive, monitor, floppy, case; do you have a good soundcard with a firewire port or do you need firewire support on the motherboard)?
Given your budget though I would aim for a mid range Athlon with Barton type chipset, NForce2 motherboard - expensive but needed for the editing performance - and at least 512Mb memory, preferably more.
John
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Agree with jr.
A nforce mb with support of 400mhz fsb
and a athlon xp2500 would be a good buy.
/could be run as xp3200 if you get the right motherboard)
For editing an AIW card from ATI e.g
A nforce mb with support of 400mhz fsb
and a athlon xp2500 would be a good buy.
/could be run as xp3200 if you get the right motherboard)
For editing an AIW card from ATI e.g
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One of the primary items on your shopping list should be a high end hard drive that uses 8MB of cache. When it comes to video capture, the CPU and hard drive are the two biggest factors. Although the video card is important, there is very little difference between cards in terms of speed.
So, I would consider getting the following:
$80-$100 - 7200RPM 100GB+ hard drive with 8MB of cache (Western Digital, IBM, Maxtor)
$100-$150 - motherboard for AMD CPU with Nforce2 chipset (Gigabyte, MSI, Abit)
$85-$90 - AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton with 333MHz frontside bus
$78 - Kingston 512MB PC2700 DDR memory CL 2.5 (Found it here:
$100-$300 - Video Card (ATI cards tend to have better video capture quality; just get one that has a video input and at least 128MB of DDR memory).
Total on these 5 components will be $450-$700 depending on your choices. I only went with AMD since you were on a budget. Of course, more money can be invested in a faster CPU and video editing software.
Everything else is gravy. Hope that gets you started...
~cdogg
[tab]"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
[tab][tab]- A. Einstein
So, I would consider getting the following:
$80-$100 - 7200RPM 100GB+ hard drive with 8MB of cache (Western Digital, IBM, Maxtor)
$100-$150 - motherboard for AMD CPU with Nforce2 chipset (Gigabyte, MSI, Abit)
$85-$90 - AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton with 333MHz frontside bus
$78 - Kingston 512MB PC2700 DDR memory CL 2.5 (Found it here:
$100-$300 - Video Card (ATI cards tend to have better video capture quality; just get one that has a video input and at least 128MB of DDR memory).
Total on these 5 components will be $450-$700 depending on your choices. I only went with AMD since you were on a budget. Of course, more money can be invested in a faster CPU and video editing software.
Everything else is gravy. Hope that gets you started...
~cdogg
[tab]"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
[tab][tab]- A. Einstein
Oh yeah I almost forgot. Most of those price ranges can be found on either or
rlthornt,
Not sure if you've done computer based video editing before, but just to give you some sort of idea of the storage space required:
At straight from camcorder, 1/2 hour of video at TV quality takes around about 6Gb. Rendering this down to MPEG quality it takes around 590Mb, so will burn onto a normal CD but at a significant loss of quality.
On top of that, you will need space for the operating system, editing software, spare space for the rendered footage and editing package plus temporary files. You will also need space for other applications and their data, assuming that this will be used for tasks other than video editing.
To give you some sort of idea, my dad's setup for video editing is an Athlon XP 3000+ box, 120Gb disk, Sony DVD multiburner and separate DVD-ROM drive, Asus A7N8x 2.0 board with onboard USB 2, dual ethernet, firewire and sound, 1Gb RAM, NVidia 5200FX graphics card with TV out (yes, i know it doesn't exactly match the rest of the system in spec, but the graphics card doesn't do the video rendering; its the CPU that does it). This cost around £1200, 3 months ago.
John
Not sure if you've done computer based video editing before, but just to give you some sort of idea of the storage space required:
At straight from camcorder, 1/2 hour of video at TV quality takes around about 6Gb. Rendering this down to MPEG quality it takes around 590Mb, so will burn onto a normal CD but at a significant loss of quality.
On top of that, you will need space for the operating system, editing software, spare space for the rendered footage and editing package plus temporary files. You will also need space for other applications and their data, assuming that this will be used for tasks other than video editing.
To give you some sort of idea, my dad's setup for video editing is an Athlon XP 3000+ box, 120Gb disk, Sony DVD multiburner and separate DVD-ROM drive, Asus A7N8x 2.0 board with onboard USB 2, dual ethernet, firewire and sound, 1Gb RAM, NVidia 5200FX graphics card with TV out (yes, i know it doesn't exactly match the rest of the system in spec, but the graphics card doesn't do the video rendering; its the CPU that does it). This cost around £1200, 3 months ago.
John
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