my PC stats plz help can i edit on this

[Kigi]

1.93 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
RADEON X700 Series
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
1gb RAM
MB Bus Clock: 166 megahertz

this is my PC stats. i plan on buying a canon hv20 this week and want to know want yall think about me editing on this. any help is awesome. any thing to add change any thing. what editing app would be best to use on this system.

[edDV]

1.93 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
RADEON X700 Series
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
1gb RAM
MB Bus Clock: 166 megahertz

this is my PC stats. i plan on buying a canon hv20 this week and want to know want yall think about me editing on this. any help is awesome. any thing to add change any thing. what editing app would be best to use on this system.

It will work but 1440x1080i HDV will filter and encode slower than 720x480i DV. A dual core CPU would be a better match.

There are several choices at the $120 level including Adobe Premiere Elements, Sony Movie Studio Premium or ULead Vido Studio Premium. Look for HDV compatibility and if 24p is important, read the reviews for each program carefully. You may need the full Premiere or Vegas.

[Kigi]

so am i just looking at slower render time and still good video or will i have bad video?

[edDV]

so am i just looking at slower render time and still good video or will i have bad video?

Just processing slowness and a "sticky" timeline. You will have more difficulty scrubbing or searching the timeline unless you decompress or move up to a digital intermediate format like Cineform. If you have experience with these programs, its similar to the sluggisness of MPeg2 but more so.

You can get started with your current machine. I just ran a test with Vegas on a P4 2.4GHz machine using HDV 720p settings. A one minute encode of HDV 720p to HDV 720p took 5 minutes. 720p HDV to 480p MPeg2 took ~16 minutes

[Kigi]

do you know any where i can DL some video to test my comp.

[edDV]

Same 1min 720p test on a Core2Duo E6300 took 89sec for HDV-HDV and 84sec 720p HDV to 480p MPeg2.

There's a bunch of other stuff running on these machines so process times are approximate.

[Kigi]

i use avid news cutter at work. do you think Avid Xpress pro will work at home? and do you know any chat rooms that have talks like this?

[edDV]

i use avid news cutter at work. do you think Avid Xpress pro will work at home? and do you know any chat rooms that have talks like this?

I think you need a dual core processor upgrade first.

There are many forums. DMN might be a place to start.
http://forums.digitalmedianet.com/cgi-bin/wwuglistcategory.cgi
http://www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/displaysiteindex.fcgi

[Kigi]

thx alot bro for all ur help i hope it all gos down right i dont feel like editing at work lol