Recommendation Needed on Mobo and CPU Combo

Would this be a decent mobo and cpu for a first time builder? I plan to use this computer in conjunction with the ADS Tech Pyro A/V hardware and Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software to download and burns disks of family movies from VHS and 8mm tapes. "Asus A8V Via Socket 939 ATX Motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.20GHz OEM Processor" Appreciate your input.

Wouldn't asrock mobo be cheaper?

I did a bit of research recently and settled on the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board - seemed to be popular with video editing folk. I have had a bad run with Gigabyte boards of late.

...that if he is ready to pay the double price. Dual core CPUs are indeed still a bit expensive. A 3500+ is fast enough already.

Yeah, but cheaper dual cores are slower than stronger single cores like the 3500+ for non-optimized applications and even in some optimized applications. And optimizations never result in a 100% speed boost so...

If he's solely looking for video encoding (no games), even a D805 would make sense (about the same price as the 3500+). I was talking more generally.