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Topic: Need advice on specific computer setup
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JakeStallion
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posted 04-30-1999 12:03 PM
I have a pentium 333 celeron, with 64 megs of RAM and a 4 gig hard drive. I also have the top-of-the-lign Sony Handycam Hi-8 camcorder (I'm not sure of the model number or whatever). I've searched through old posts, but haven't found any information that helped me. I need to know if purchasing an Iomega BUZ capture card would be worth the money, with the setup I have... I don't have hope of upgrading any time soon, so if my computer's too wussy than should I buy some other type of editing equipment? My budget is absolutely no more than 200$... Probably not even that much (depends on how much I can convince mops and pops to shell out... 'it's for my future, it'll teach me, etc. etc. etc.=)
So, someone help me... Is there a poor man's solution?
Oh, yah, and all the footage I have so far (About 8 hours of work's worth) give what I think is relatively short time for editing... no more than 2 seconds between takes, not counting me shouting out 'scene three, take 4!'. Is this enough time? I hadn't really considered it durring filming, but looking through takes it may be a problem...
Any help that can be offered would be appreciated... greatly!
-No more from,
Jake Stallion |
Red Five
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posted 04-30-1999 06:03 PM
The Buz has a lot of problems, my roommate has one and it takes about three hours of fiddling to get it working every time he upgrades a piece of his computer or installs a new software program. Of course, it's also really cheap, and when it works, it works great. You might want to also look at the DC10 or Matrox Marvel, though I think these are a little more expensive, and have a lot of their own problems.Regardless, you're going to need at least one more thing for video capture - another hard drive. Get one as big as you can afford and use it just for video work. If you try to capture to the same hard drive that Windows or applications are on, it will usually start breaking up with dropped frames and look real jerky - not good. Just get a regular IDE drive, you can pick up one that'll hold at least half an hour of Hi8 footage for about a hundred bucks now. (Hi8 footage takes up about 3MB a second, with sound, so do the math.) So if you get one of these and a Buz, you can get a half hour of Hi-8 footage into your computer and edit it for about $200. Of course, once you start, you'll want a real editing program like Ulead or Premiere, probably some special effects programs, a better capture card, and ALWAYS more hard drive space. At least your CPU, system hard drive, and RAM look good! | |
