DVcamera+premiere6+...what more...?

[E-meil]

I have resently bought a dv camera. A have Adobe premiere6 installed on my computer. I wonder if i need a special graphics card to edit video? Is it enough with an ordinary card like those for playing games?
I guess my computer is to slow, Pentium 300. But i´m getting a new computer soon.

Hoping for answers...
E-meil

[Medical]

Hi !

Here you go: DV-Camera -> Firewire Cable -> Firewire Card
-> Premiere 6 (already installed) to capture, edit and
output some avi-files -> TMPGEnc for creating the
mpeg-files (mpeg1 for VCDs, mpeg2 for SVCDs).

Alternatively you can use Virtual Dub (freeware) or
Studio DV (Software bundled with the pinnacle/miro cards)
to capture. If you don't want to create AVI files you can
frameserv with avi-synth (Premiere Plugin, freeware)
directly to TMPGEnc (freeware, highly recommended!)

Hope this helps...
Medical

And: yes, you should buy a new computer with a big and
fast harddrive (I use IBM with 60 Gb) because you get
200mb/minute when you capture... 256mb RAM wouldn't be
bad (although I think 128mb will do the job, too).

[Braindrain]

What Medical forgot to mention is that you'll have to frameserve to TMPG if you're using Premiere. I like using Ulead VideoStudio/Pro MediaStudio since I don't have to frameserve.

Also, regarding your question of a special graphics card, it's too vague. A "normal" card should be ok but what does "normal" to you mean? If it's a cheapy 4/8MB video card, you might have problems. I'm using a Geforce 2MX (32MB) and it works fine.