Building from scratch.

[BradBo]

I am building an new computer and need a little help.
I am going to go with an AMD 3500 cpu,I havent decided on the mobo yet.
I just bought a Panasonic MiniDV video recorder and plan on doing a fair amount of editing and burning to a DVD of family functions and things like that.
I have done some of this with an older system that used a software based encoder, it took quite a while to encode the video to mpeg though.
I also am going to do some gaming with this setup.
Is there a card that has both a mpeg converter and would be good for high level gaming or should I buy seprate cards for mpeg capture and gaming?
Brad

[rallynavvie]

Always seperate cards for video in and video out.

And you'll probably want to stick with the software encoder. You want to make your changes in DV, not in MPEG2, so if you're capturing direct to MPEG2 then it should be going right onto DVD. You'll also want to keep to a software encoder when you see how much a good MPEG2 card cost.

That 3500 will be fine with something like TMPGEnc. Just set up batch encodes to run overnight or when you're at work so you don't have to worry about your encoding taking up your computer when you need to use it.