Please help, I got questions

[sesquim]

Hi, All! I'm new to the vcd forum. I have read everything on this page but still got ?'s. I have Sony TRV530 Digital 8 Camcorder and my computer right now is a 466 celeron, 12gig, 192pc100 ram, onboard video card. Will this system be enough for capturing, editing, and burning my 60 to 90 minutes home videos? If not can u please tell me if ther is anythiing else I can do, such as upgrades for this system? I think I can only upgrade up to 1gigaherd or 1.1 celeron, my computer is a compaq (it sucks). Or should I just be better off getting a new system, and now here is the ? Which is better for my needs an Intel or AMD? and what video card do u recomend for me? and should I use raid?

I also have other ?'s that I thought that I'd just ask u instead of posting in the forums.
I read that when capturing a movie, or clip, that the maximum minutes allowed is 18minutes or something like that, even if u have a big hard drive. Is this true? and how can I capture my 60 to 90 minutes home video so I can burn it to VCD?

I am soooo confused with VCD's, I have downloaded some VCD clips and when I watch them on my computer its mostly 640 by 480 if not smaller, and when I put it full screen the image quality goes bad. Now when I convert my 60 to 90 minute home movies to VCD format and burn it, when I play it in my standalone DVD player will it be full screen? and what format do u recomend I convert my 60 to 90 minutes home movies to? Will the VCD quality be better than if I just copy my home movies to a VCR tape? cause I have lots of home movies from vacation and ther VCR quality is pretty good. I compared the 2 quality when I watched the VCD in my computer to full screen and the VCR tape in my tv. The VCR tape had better quality.

Thanks a lot!!!

[Vejita-sama]

For capturing almost any system will do. It's the video editing and encoding that takes processoring power/ram. Every system is different but if I had to quess I would say a Celeron 466 could encode to SVCD in TMPGenc at ~9x the source runtime. So to encode 90min would take ~13.5hrs. As for editing, that too would be slow (video card & ram help here too).

CCE can encode much faster than TMPGenc, but it needs a P3/P4 or Althon to run.

So you can do it with what you've got but it'll be slow

[sesquim]

KOo, thanks dude!