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You generally can not capture DV over the USB cable. As far as I know only Panasonic supports this at the moment. You need to get a FireWire cable.
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Need more info. How is the camcorder connected to your PC?
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There are players that do both NTSC and PAL, but if you are talking about VHS, they do not have built-in digital converters. If you are talking DV, I do not know of combo players.
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Oh, and the answers above assumed PAL VHS or similar, if the PAL source is a DV camcorder, the only hardware you need is a PAL DV Camcorder.
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If he brings in a PAL video tape you need two pieces of hardware, a PAL VCR and some capture hardware that handles PAL, Canopus ADVC for example. To utput it back to NTSC DVD you need a DVD burner. To output to NTSC tape you need an NTSC VCR.
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You capture your PAL footage as PAL, and convert it to NTSC in post. Vegas can render from a PAL source to NTSC and vice versa.
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It seems highly unlikely that Network Rendering is dependent on your network card in other ways than for compatibility. It would be insane for Sony not to use the Windows environment (probably TCP/IP stack) to communicate over the network, which means that any network card that works under windows will work for network rendering.
Compatibility problems across operating systems is an issue, but if your network card works under Windows it will work with Vegas. Guaranteed.
If you need your network card to also work for Linux (if you dual-boot into Linux) then you should take that into consideration.
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As others have pointed out, it is probably a factor of your media. The vast majority of players will play the best media, but a lot of players will not read bad media. The problem is that it is hard to know what media is good and what is bad. Most of the media out there is produced by a few vendors, and several of the brands use DVDs from multiple vendors.
Memorex is a good example, if you buy Memorex, what media you actually get is not entirely possible to know. Memorex is just re-branding media, they do not produce media.
So, a poor DVD burner enthusiast (or professional) must be picky. You should not get re-branded media at all. Sadly re-branded is almost all of the media in the stores. Online is a good place to get what you need, and know that what you get is what you wanted.
You should also get a piece DVD identification software so that you know exactly what media you are getting. All media has a media identifier.
I think consensus these days is that MCC and Tayo Yuden is the best reasonably priced DVD media.
Check out https://www.videohelp.com/ to learn everything you never thought you had to know about DVD media.
Oh, and one more thing, burn your DVDs slow. 2x at the fastest is my recommendation. 1x is probably better. Don’t burn on 4x or faster, it makes your media less readable.
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AMD is much faster than the Pentium D, but the Core Duo is faster again. Either is a good choice. AM2 socket is more future-proof than the 939 socket. Asus MOBO is good, I would recommend against the A8R-MVP motherboard. RAM 1G is good, 2G is better. Manufacturer – don’t go cheap. Hard drive, you need two, more is better, no less than 250G each in my opinion. Don’t buy Western Digital. Tool-less case is not that important, cooling is.
Go to https://www.newegg.com/ to get your stuff. Each product has customer reviews. Fast. Cheap. Reliable.
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I understand your problem with uncompressed AVI and diskspace, but the problem is caused by pre-compressing your stuff with DivX. When you pre-compress it, you make Vegas uncompress it and then re-compress it for the rendering process, this will slow things down tremendously.
The solution should simple, but it will require a lot more diskspace than the compressed DivX files. Do not convert your Fraps stuff to highly compressed DivX, convert it to only slightly compressed DV-AVI. This will take a lot more space than your DivX, but it will make the rendering process significantly faster.
Going through the intermediary DV-AVI rather than DivX will also solve your artifacts problem.
Editing and re-encoding highly compressed video like DivX simply is a Bad IdeaTM.
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