I am going to be making a movie, editing it myself and making DVDs for
standalone players. I have done it before with Windows MM2 but MM2
doesn't cut it anymore. I have the software, but need a few add-ons for
my computer.

I am using a new Dell Optiplex 170 L with an Intel Pentium 4 2.80 GHZ
with 512 MB of Ram. It is running on XP Pro SP2. The hard drive is a
40 MB Seagate Ultra ATA 100 7200 RPM. The graphics controller is an
Intel 82865G Graphics controller. I will be doing the video capture on
another computer that has Firewire on the same network and move the
footage to my computer and do everything but the capture on my
computer. I am going to add a few things to the computer make it
suitable for video editing. I have a whole bunch of software titles
(Premiere Pro, the newests Pinnacle and Ulead titles etc).

I am planning on adding the following to the computer:
VGA card 128 M Geforce MX 4000 8X
Imation DVD +/- RW drive
A second hard drive: ATA (maybe 80-100 GB with 2MB buffer @7200 RPM)

I would like to know what you think any potential problems you see with
the set-up. Is the hard drive and buffer big enough and is ATA 100 fast
enough? (SCSI is too expensive) There will be probably 1.5 hours of raw
DV AVI footage edited down to an hour movie an then made into a DVD. I would obviously buy top of the line stuff if I could, but I can’t. I
probably could afford to put another $100 into the project than I am
have planned now, but not too much more.

Unfortunately there will be no gaming done on the computer. It is only
used for other run of the mill stuff other than video editing.

Thanks in advance
PTN