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[eamo]

I think I have to upgrade my P4 2.4 (XP pro Eng) as I'm about to enter the scary world of video capturing and editing.

Question: I've got 256mb of RAM in one of four slots. I want to upgrade to 1024mb. So three more slots are free. Can I just buy 3 more strips of 256mb? Can I buy any kind of RAM or should the new RAM match my original 256mb?

Question: I'll need to use a card which has a firewire port. Are these easy to buy and install? How much should I pay for a basic one?

Question: If I buy a DVD burner can I just take out my existing CD-rom and plug in the cables into the back of the DVD burner just as they were for the old CD-rom?

Thanks for any tips.

[ulsanchris]

macs are supposed to be great for video editing.

[SuperHero]

[Demophobe]

[eamo]

Thanks guys.

I'll get back to you Demophobe about makes and models. I'm going to open my computer up tonight to see what kind of RAM is in there.

The wear and tear thing won't be an issue as I already have a DVD-rom/CD burner installed. It's only the old, basic CD-rom I'll be taking out.

[Demophobe]

Cool.

I shouldn't have made such a deal about RAM timings....they don't matter THAT much. Don't get as retentive as me, for pete's sake!

Good cheaper brands include Kingmax and Geil....just stay away from Samsung.

[Derrek]

I do some heavy-duty video editing. I was a TV commercial producer/editor in the USA for 8 years.

Currently I am making a high school TV Newscast out of news stories that 3 of my classes are writing. All of it is in English. I'll post a link when it's all done (should be done in a month or less).

I've been producing the animations and tweaking a virtual-reality set to match our logos using Photoshop, Premiere 6.5, and Adobe After Effects. I spent 5 hours placing "fake" live video into the virtual-reality TV set behind the news anchors. Tedious work.

Currently my system is a Pentium 2.4B with 512 of Ram. I can't stress how important it is to have a Hard Drive that is 7200RPM. That is VERY important. Most drives are these days, but make sure yours is, or you will suffer a lot of frame drops. As for my machine, I will upgrade the Ram soon when I get around to it.

If you have any questions about video editing, streaming videos, etc., give me a shout.

You can see some of my korea videos (many are just rough footage though) at www.seoulstream.com

[eamo]

I've seen your streaming video already Derrek. Very good.

I'll be using the XP movie-maker at first as I heard it's pretty simple.

I was thinking of buying a new hard-drive to go alongside my existing 80gig drive as it's almost always full of movies and music.

What should I pay for a 120-160gig HDD 7200rpm?

[Derrek]

A couple of prices I saw on www.enuri.com:

Maxtor 200gig 7200RPM with an 8 Meg buffer for about 156,000 or so.

Samsung 120gig 7200RPM with an 8 Meg buffer for about 105,000.

I'd get one with an 8 Meg buffer if you can. Not sure it makes much difference over a 2Meg buffer, but I'd think it would have to help with frame errors. I rarely get them now with mine (80meg Maxtor 7200RPM with 8 Meg buffer), and usually only do when capturing segments several minutes long. That's probably due to another program running in the background that kicks in if I forget to turn something off.

[klaasb]

If you have the money, buy more RAM.
2Gb shouldn't be that expensive right now (4x512)

A movie capture card doesn't have to be expensive either, and it will give you the benefit of being able to hook up your old vcr. And usually they throw in a copy of Adobe Premiere or something like that (not new, but one version older than the current one).

[Demophobe]

[eamo]

[eamo]

Okay. The upgrade's been done.

I got 1024mb RAM at Technomart ( I actually hate shopping at Yongsan even though it's cheaper) for 206,000. It's Samsung. That's the only brand all the shops had. It's speed is 3200. I noticed immediately how much faster my PC is. Wow! The difference from 256mb is very noticeable.

I got an LG DVD burner for 130,000. 12X writer. Haven't had time to try it yet.

The Firewire card was 20,000. The cable 4000!!!! I couldn't believe that price. When I was home in Ireland during the summer I priced a firewire cable at 20 pounds! that's 40,000 won. 10 times!!! So, of course I bought it but when I got home and opened the box containing the Firewire card there was a cable in there!! So now I have 2 firewire cables

Anybody want a firewire cable?

So far I've managed to capture the video and at the moment I'm in the process of burning. Strange though. The video captured by MS Movie-maker totalled 9 gig but the burning program sees it as 2.5 gig.

It's a steep learning curve at the moment.

[the saint]

Nobody mentioned HDD speed - isn't this a factor when editing?

As for getting anything more than Movie Maker2 which is bundled with Win XP - I'd like to hear someone say why exactly. I've been using this software for over a year to produce some classy video. I did mess with other software but the learning curve was huge and I couldn't see what the other programs would give me which MM2 does not.

I'd honestly like to know... if anyone has experience of MM2 and other software they prefer.

Cheers

[JAMZ]

i personally dont have first hand experience but my cousin is quite the expert on this stuff and he's always told me to start off with adobe premiere