System Setup for Home Videographer

[mmvelasco]

Hi!

I'm new to this forum and I would like to ask for your assistance. I'm just a home videographer that shoots video of my family. But I want to have it edited by myself. I'm using a Panasonic miniDV video cam.

Now, I'm planning to purchase a new computer to edit my videos.

My planned setup is as follows:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz 4MB
Memory: Kingston 2GB DDR 667
Motherboard: Intel DG965WH w/ built-in firewire
Storage Drive: 80GB for system / 160GB for files
Optical Drive: 20x DVD Writer
Video Card: 8500GT 512MB 128Bit DDR2 PCI-E
Monitor: 17" SVGA flat CRT monitor (I'll be using this temporarily)

That's it. Would I be needing a much bigger memory?

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards,

MILO

[anonymez]

Welcome to the forum

It is plenty powerful for video editing. More storage space perhaps, depending on how much editing you do.

[Chewy]

try to get ddr2 800 cas 4 memory, 2 gigs is fine(dual channel)

also try to get bigger hard drives, video editing uses a lot of space fast