Which is better for Digital Video Processing?

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NT2000 Pro or XP Pro?
Which is better for working with MiniDV tapes, editing, rendering and creating DVD disks?

I am mainly a database person, but I have many Mini DV tapes from my Cannon Optura that are waiting for me to learn how to make them into home movies on DVD.

My primary objectives are not fancy stuff but:
1 Keeping every ounce of definition and quality that I can get from the tapes.
2 Duarability, which is probably only a function of the media rather than the operating system/hardware/software that creates the files.

Any thoughts on the operating system or related items will be greatly appreciated.

Mack
 
Win2000 Pro doesn't do that natively. You will need to aquire software
to do anything of that type of editing. XP will probably be better for
you based on drivers and software availabiity.
 
My clips edit from Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Pro and
Media Studio Pro 7.0 from Ulead.
Intel Pentium !!! 800 MHZ CPU X2
640MB SDRAM
IBM 40GB HDD X2 on RAID 0
Sounblaster Live
GeForce2 MX400 64MB RAM
 
My opinion is that Windows 2000 Pro is the better choice. Your
main concern with video editing and DVD authoring is sustained
hard disk throughput. With XP you'll find that lsass.exe is
hitting the hard disk exactly once each second putting it in
contention with your video processing efforts. Windows 2000
doesn't have this "feature".

Mack said:
NT2000 Pro or XP Pro?
Which is better for working with MiniDV tapes, editing,
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rendering and creating DVD disks?
I am mainly a database person, but I have many Mini DV tapes
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from my Cannon Optura that are waiting for me to learn how to
make them into home movies on DVD.
My primary objectives are not fancy stuff but:
1 Keeping every ounce of definition and quality that I can get from the tapes.
2 Duarability, which is probably only a function of the media
Click to expand...
rather than the operating system/hardware/software that creates
the files.
 
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