Budget video edit PC

[CanyonMan]

I am upgrading my PC to be able to do video editing. The question is, Other than larger and faster HDDs and possibly processor and more RAM, can I get away with my 9600Pro and purchase a video capture card instead? If so, can anyone recommend a good brand? Thanks for the help.

AMD XP 1500
512 MB DDR PC2100
MSI KT4VL
20GB HDD
Sapphire 9600 Pro 128MB
Windows XP HE
Lian-Li PC-60

 

[Crashman]

Hauppauge has video capture cards with HARDWARE MPEG2 COMPRESSION in the WinPVR series of cards. They're a bit pricey, but the hardware compression takes the load of converting analog video into usauble media formats away from the CPU.

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[stupid_tech_geek]

You should look at the msi tv @nywhere card. It's cheap (50-60$). It can capture from svideo and componant in. In addition to mpeg 1-2 it also has encode on on the fly mpeg 4 encoding. This card does a lot of stuff for a low price. As far as the 9600, you should be good with that but I would stay away from 256 memory as I've heard that they're not worth it. Good luck.

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[CanyonMan]

Thanks for the replies. I plan on keeping the 9600 Pro for as long as possible as I do not want to do a Major upgrade till PCI-E and prices for 64 bit processors come down some (basically sometime next year). I'll look inot the MSI card and the Hauppage as mentioned earlier.

AMD XP 1500
512 MB DDR PC2100
MSI KT4VL
20GB HDD
Sapphire 9600 Pro 128MB
Windows XP HE
Lian-Li PC-60