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Thanks for everyone who advised me about Dell. Since I think I might
be going the Dell route, I have another question to ask.
I'm looking to do some video editing and straight transfers to DVD,
both from my DV camcorder and from HI 8 and VHS tapes.
I have a few questions.
One, money is a bit tight (or should I say, I prefer not to take on a
huge credit card bill if I can help it.) So, what is the minimum
desktop purchase I could get and still be able to upgrade to edit
video in the near future?
Two, assuming I bought everything from Dell, what should I get to do
this?
I'm asking because I see that the lower end models don't have the
options of customizing to add higher end video and sound cards, and if
I did get a lower end model, I wanted to make sure that what was there
was adequate for DV purposes. Otherwise, I might as well buy the
higher end.
What are the parts that are needed to edit DV? Can I get buy with one
big harddrive? If I need two, do they have to be in a RAID
configuration (the faster data configuration, not the backup
configuration)? I'd hate to pay for two hard drives and have the
failure of one ruin everything. What about HI 8 and VHS? From what
I gather, these require some sort of video capture board, but I'm not
sure what to get (or if Dell even offers such a beast).
Right now I'm looking at a Dimension 8300 configured as follows:
512 Dual Channell DDR SDRAM,
120 GB HD
Audigy 2 sound card
DVD-Rom drive
DVD+R rewrite drive
128 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card.
P4 3GHz with HT and 800 MHZ FSB
Thanks for everyone who advised me about Dell. Since I think I might
be going the Dell route, I have another question to ask.
I'm looking to do some video editing and straight transfers to DVD,
both from my DV camcorder and from HI 8 and VHS tapes.
I have a few questions.
One, money is a bit tight (or should I say, I prefer not to take on a
huge credit card bill if I can help it.) So, what is the minimum
desktop purchase I could get and still be able to upgrade to edit
video in the near future?
Two, assuming I bought everything from Dell, what should I get to do
this?
I'm asking because I see that the lower end models don't have the
options of customizing to add higher end video and sound cards, and if
I did get a lower end model, I wanted to make sure that what was there
was adequate for DV purposes. Otherwise, I might as well buy the
higher end.
What are the parts that are needed to edit DV? Can I get buy with one
big harddrive? If I need two, do they have to be in a RAID
configuration (the faster data configuration, not the backup
configuration)? I'd hate to pay for two hard drives and have the
failure of one ruin everything. What about HI 8 and VHS? From what
I gather, these require some sort of video capture board, but I'm not
sure what to get (or if Dell even offers such a beast).
Right now I'm looking at a Dimension 8300 configured as follows:
512 Dual Channell DDR SDRAM,
120 GB HD
Audigy 2 sound card
DVD-Rom drive
DVD+R rewrite drive
128 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card.
P4 3GHz with HT and 800 MHZ FSB