On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:19:26 +0100, Jes wrote:

>I am in the process of building my PC and would be using it for VIDEO
>EDITING.
>
>This is what I am thinking of:
>
>CPU Intel PII 450 w/512Kb c
>Ram 128Mb
>HD 10 Gb Ultra DMA
>Mo/Bd ASUS P2-B, Pentium II
>V/card Matrox Millenium G200, 16 Mb, Sdram, Agp
>Video Capture card Miro DV300
>
>If th UltraDMA does not give good results, I shall also install a SCSI
>Drive AV

This appears to be for mini-DV capture/edit.
I would add at least one additional drive dedicated
to video - using your program drive for video capture/play
is not a good idea (though you can use it for storing files
you are working with). If you are editing and then saving the
parts as AVI files for later playback to the camcorder
(not just playing back from the time-line, a still difficult
to accomplish feat...), I suggest adding a dedicated drive
for this function also (big UDMA drives are cheap, and you
will quickly run out of space with a single 10-gig drive
[4.5 minutes = 1-gig in mini-DV time {or 2.25 minutes,
if you also save the edited version to the HD...}]) so that
you are not reading from, and saving to, the same drive
(it can be done, but it is harder on the drive, slower,
and it is a useful idea to avoid fragmenting drives).