Can someone recommend good low-mid-price system for video-editing/capturing

[johnharlin]

I am planning to convert a lot of my vhs tapes to digital video as well as do a lot of video editing. It's tricky getting the right system. I heard the i2500K processor has a defect in it and will add some frames after about 4 minutes of capturing. Then I heard that multiple cores are not necessarily faster in rending, especially if those cores have a lower processing speed. And then I heard there are video cards that are just not compatible with some types of processes. So that's why I want to hear what others have to say about a good low to mid-priced system for video editing/capturing.

[jagabo]

Any system you buy will be capable of capturing and editing VHS video. Depending on what software you use some will be faster than others. What software will you be using?

It's nonsense that there is an inherent flaw in the i5 2500K CPU that would cause it to "add frames" during a video capture. That must be some software problem with a particular piece of software. Do you have any links regarding this problem?

Depending on which encoder you use sometimes a fast dual core can be faster than a slow quad core (mostly old MPEG 2 encoders like TMPGEnc Plus). But the i5 2500K is amongst the fastest CPUs for most encoding tasks. Most video encoders are fairly well multithreaded these days. Look at the CPU charts at Tom's Hardware:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-2010/Video-Transcode-Handbrake-M....264,2421.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-2010/Video-Transcode-Handbrake-M....264,2421.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-2010/Video-Transcode-Handbrake-M....264,2421.html

In most of those test the i5 2500K is only bested by i7 and Phenom X6 CPUs.

The encoders that use the graphics card (CUDA, Quick Sync, etc.) are very immature and deliver inferior quality. For the most part, you can use fast settings in a software encoder and get better quality at nearly the same speed.

You should be thinking more about what happens before the video gets to the computer. That's where the quality starts. A good S-VHS deck with a line time base corrector (the single most important component), an analog video proc amp, and a full frame TBC.