[Brian Louis]

Windows 7 ??

[Brian Louis]

What format are you trying to capture 1080i, 1080p, 720p?

[Brian Louis]

What type of video?

[Brian Louis]

512mb is sufficient for editing

[Brian Louis]

You got it, thats why the long axis is vertical on a anamorphic lens, its distorting the wide image to fit on the SD PAR

[Brian Louis]

[paul bolden] “it lists the frame size of 720×480 and not for example 1280×720”
Widescreen NTSC SD is 720×480 with anamorphic PAR of 1.2, the square pixel count for wide screen is approx 860×480 usually in displays or some camcorder imaging chips which is DSPed to the anamorphic 720×480, 1280×720 is HD

[Brian Louis]

[Koby Goldberg] “Is it like a Video Editor for MPEG files”
Yes

[Koby Goldberg] “that combines and cuts parts of it without recompression”
Usually if straight cuts, or drop-ins for the same material its mostly without recompression except to mend the cut GOPs

AVCHD should be used with a intermediate codec like cineform, neoscene, the compression is so high it can choke most systems when codeding/decoding, the loss with transcoding to a intermediate codec is minimized by going by going to a higher bit count and quantization.

[Brian Louis]

[Koby Goldberg] “Is there or is there not another software that can do it ?”
One is Videoredo.com it does frame accurate editing with smart rendering, I use it to touch up CITC recordings off of discs, its basically consumer software.

[Brian Louis]

Good luck on not recompressing if you are doing transistions and adding other footage, most of the time AFAIK Ppro will recompress Mpeg, if you wanted to add like footage and just do cuts there is software that will do that without recompressing

[Brian Louis]

[mikkell khan] “if there is more that needs to be done to another project on that same drive?”
If you are going to use two machines and try to alternate, have enough swappable drives where you can keep projects separated so they are not on the same drive at the same time.