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the biggest problem you'll have with your rig is going to be getting a decent quality cap. Unless you spend a lot on a dedicated card you'll be limited to less than 320x200 at 20-30 fps (possibly less). If that quality is ok then all I'd suggest is not to bother with premeire, get one of the less expensive editing packages.
I run Premiere on a liquid cooled Athlon XP 2000+ with a gig of DDR333, a firewire interface to a JVC GR-DVM50U Cybercam, and a DVD+RW... I can get to 640x480, but I have trouble getting a full 30fps capture.
I'm unfamiliar with the USB based device, but you need to keep in mind that a 320x200 x 24bit Color x 30fps image is about 6 megabytes/s of uncompressed data... USB will not transfer at even this rate (limited to about 1.5MB/s unless it's USB version 2.0 - which is still rare) and I doubt and inexpensive device is capable of encoding the stream on the fly. 640x480 x 24bit Color x 30fps is almost 40 megabytes/s... most hard drives will barf on this stream and I have to encode it on the fly to run it at all.
SO... if you can keep the frame size small you should be able to do it with an inexpensive capture card and the software that comes with it... if you want enough quality to justify Premeire or some other high end editing software then IMO you should spend the cash and get a box capable of doing decent work.
[ 02-28-2003, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]
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