Does an old PC cause problems?

[Aramil]

I want to edit a film in premiere pro.Is there any chance i face quality problems when I export the movie (such as sound delay etc.) because of my slow proccessor (1.5 Ghz) or my poor RAM (256mb) ?

[CWR03]

It's always possible, especially if the video is a capture from another source. You won't know until you try.

[Sirber]

edit is not capture. It will just take much more time.

[denise]

Dont use low-end PC for editing,really slow and the program may be crashed during the process.

[CWR03]

edit is not capture. It will just take much more time.
I know "edit is not capture," but what I don't know is what Aramil will be editing. It could be a capture as easily as anything else.

[theReal]

My dad has an old 1GHZ Athlon with 384MB of PC133 SDRAM and it can edit anything in Premiere 6.5 (it won't run Premiere Pro because the CPU lacks SSE... but that's the whole problem). Of course rendering effects takes a long time, but that doesn't affect the video at all.

The program doesn't crash because the PC is old! I.e. my dad's PC is the most stable PC I've ever built. It never crashed in more than 3 years even it is slightly overclocked (FSB@106MHz instead of default 100MHz)

If you can capture without losing frames (which is not very demanding and was even possible on systems with a PII 400 and 128MB RAM) then there's no problem except longer coffee breaks for rendering effects :p