system question

AMD 2.0GHz is fine for video editing. Don't be brainwashed by the myth that Intel CPUs are superior than AMD when it comes to video editing. That's just not true. Also the speed of DDR RAMs won't affect the quality or frame drop. It's the amount of memory that matters. Get at least 512MB of memory.

Frame drop is usually caused by hard disk, which is the slowest part of the system. It happens when hard disk is not fast enough to store the incoming stream of video during capture. So it's a good idea to defrag your HD and close all other running programs before you capture videos.

Any of the today's hard disks (at least 5400rpm) should be fine for video capturing/editing. If you're really worry about frame drop, you may consider raid 0 setup.

Here's the scoop as i'm getting into video editing myself and have experience for what it's worth.

AMD or Intel is fine as long as the Intel cpu is beyond 2ghz. AMD i would say around 2000+ which i think is 1.67ghz i think. Anything below that is unacceptible.

The 3 big things you NEED for video editing well four. Fast processor, lots of ram, fast hard drive, and lots of hard drive space.

so i recommend this from experience ...

-Intel 2ghz or amd 2000+ or greater. Anything more is better.
-512MB of RAM or more. No less!
-Nothing less then a 7200RPM harddrive. It MUST be 7200RPM or more
-At least a 120GB Hard drive. You gotta take into consideration for other programs, games, and your video editing software and your large files. Files can get as big as 7GB. So you NEED windows 2000 or windows XP with NTFS file system.

From experence you should get the fastest RAM Available either DDR-SDRAM or RDRAM for future upgrades.

If you can for DDR, go dual Channel DDR.

those are the 4 main things you need. ALong with software. And Pinnical Studio 8 seems pretty good. Ulead Video studio 6 is good, i think 7 is out now. good luck!


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