Burning DVD's in a 1 gig machine?

[jwer_NL]

My sister has an AMD 1 gig machine, with 256 ram and 40 gig HD, now if she would want to burn DVD's and video-edit some home stuff, would it be okay to just buy a DVD burner, and then in the near future more disc space and perhaps 256 extra ram, or should she just go for a completely new machine?

I mean, would it run, would it run without taking days?

 

[sneez]

It won't take days. I think you're using Win XP?
If you use a decent burning program like Alcohol 120% it shouldnt be any problem.
It depends on the writing speed of the DVD burner aswell.
But I think it would run without taking days yes

 

[jwer_NL]

Yeah okay, but i think the process from gettin from 40 gig rough home video to 4 gig burnable DVD would take a shitload of time...

 

[Twonko]

Dunno if this helps, but I did a bunch of video editing on a 1.4 Celeron (I think) Dell laptop with 256 ram and a 20GB HD using Premiere 6.5 and a firewire link to my camera and it worked fine. No dropped frames, real time editing and review , the lot. I ended up with some fairly monster files which I bluetoothed to my uber desktop (overnight...soooo slow) and burned from there to a 2 speed DVD. I would have thought that as long as the HD can send the data to the DVD quick enough to keep the cache full, you would have no problem.

 

[F@TBOY]

Would work fine with that machine, even though specs are low, but that is a min recommendation

The only problem will be the speed of encoding, but i wouldnt expect it to be to much longer

Use DVD Shrink

 

[ProPain]

i have the same comp downstairs and it still runs fine considering it is old as fuck
got a spare 256 mb sdram 133 if you need it gimme a shout

 

[Lex_Mortis]

got a spare 256 mb sdram 133 if you need it gimme a shout

/me wants it please! =)

 

[ProPain]

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