250 GB Hard Drive Install – Old PC

[budz]

bottom line is to get a new pc for her video needs....nuff said.....

[gadgetguy]

I was only relating MY experience with SATA. I have a Promise SATA RAID controller on my motherboard and getting the SATA drive to work on it proved to be a huge chore, having to try several different drivers until I could reliably use the drive for storage only. I cannot capture to that drive (huge loss of frames), and I cannot process/edit a video while it resides on that drive. The response when trying to move the timeline along results in more frustration than production. I agree that the SATA spec should make it more than adequate for video work, but MY experience has been just the opposite. I have no doubt that eventually it will work great, and it may be at that point already with the correct combination of hardware and software, but for someone that is just starting out I don't recommend it. Video work can be frustrating enough by itself.

[Jenny]

Holy cow!

Information overload! In a good way! Lol! Jesus…I can’t ask for much more than that!

Thanks so much everyone. I have to admit…this thread has created more questions that end up flowing outside of what was originally intended with this particular post…so I’ll have to start a few more with other questions I have.

I don’t understand all the terms, but I’m learning slowly…I learned so much with this post.


Thanks again.
Jenny

[spectroelectro]

There's an alternative no one has mentioned here. Namely, buy a high quality DVD recorder and simply pop the DVD-RW discs into your computer and edit 'em with Womble MPEG VCR, the best MPEG-2 editing program. The best available DVD recorder is the JVC DRM10. It supports DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM. I typically record shows on DVD-RW, finalize the disc, pop it into my Sempron 2200's DVD-ROM drive and rip the disc contents to hard drive, then do editing and re-authoring and DVD burning. Very quick. As good results or better than I used to be getting with my old Canopus ADVC-100 and TMPGenc MPEG-2 encoding software, which I no longer use much.

Instead of spending all that money on a faster computer, you might contemplate spending $265 (www.ecost.com) on a JVC DRM10 DVD recorder. Buy Womble MPEG VCR for about $80 more and you've got everything you need. Plus, your current computer will work fine.

[pfh]

iMac? just a thought. he-he!

[DaveS]

There's an alternative no one has mentioned here. Namely, buy a high quality DVD recorder and simply pop the DVD-RW discs into your computer and edit 'em with Womble MPEG VCR, the best MPEG-2 editing program. The best available DVD recorder is the JVC DRM10. It supports DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM. I typically record shows on DVD-RW, finalize the disc, pop it into my Sempron 2200's DVD-ROM drive and rip the disc contents to hard drive, then do editing and re-authoring and DVD burning. Very quick. As good results or better than I used to be getting with my old Canopus ADVC-100 and TMPGenc MPEG-2 encoding software, which I no longer use much.

Instead of spending all that money on a faster computer, you might contemplate spending $265 (www.ecost.com) on a JVC DRM10 DVD recorder. Buy Womble MPEG VCR for about $80 more and you've got everything you need. Plus, your current computer will work fine.

yeah, but if jenny wants to do a lot of editing, titles, transitions, etc., womble will only go so far...seems like her requirements are more on the editing side than on converting a ton of analog tapes...(in fact her source is digital - minidv)