Ultimate Systems specs for capturing...

[Jedi27]

In your fine opinions...what are the most imp pieces for the capturing and then authoring process?
I have:

AMD XP 1800 (1.5 MHZ)
512 DDR 333 RAM
creative audigy card w/ firewire
Nvidia MX400 videocard
Pioneer AO5 DVD burner
am using verbatim DVD-R 2x
Capturing seems to be fine, but authoring can take up to 6-7 hrs

Someone suggested I go to a new system with dual processors??

Cheers,
Jedi27

[BJ_M]

for capturing a dual system not going to be importaint .. a dedicated high quality capture card is what is importaint (or at least more importaint) .. with a good hardware card - one does not need a fast system , only a good stable system with a good throughput ..

i mean we were capturing full D1 years and years ago w/ 300-400mhz intel systems and never a problem , lot of people still today happly editing away on 300mhz-400mhz old mac systems which are slow as dog breakfast but those systems work great ..

for authoring -- do you mean re-encoding or editing ? for authoring again a speedy system is not that important - i would take a stable system with huge amounts of storage over the fastest system around ..

what a dual system gives you is faster encoding with many encoders such as TMPGenc , main concept, CCE while also letting you do things such as capturing the same time and even burning multiple disks the same time (well i do, but all scsi and firewire rocks also)