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KingTKS

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so i was looking for information on video cards for video editing. i'm currently looking at the GTX200 series and was wonder what specifics on a video card are most important.

We arn't specifically doing high definition video editing. but it would be nice to be able to try. The #1 Priority is time efficiency. we do a lot of videos in DVD quality and we want them to specifically render as fast as possible. Pinnacle studio 12 is what we use.

So is the ram speed the most important? stream processors? i can't imagine more then 1gb of video ram is necessary. is the core clock more imporant? or the memory interface more important?

Thanks
Trevor
 
Who are "we"? Is this a company? Do you need your video to output to specific standards?

If so, you'll want to let us know which software you use and if it's even capable of using the GPU to help encode.

Really, I'd recommend something like the Grass Valley MPEG encoders, or the new Firecoder if you plan on HD for the mainstream. They're a standalone unit that takes care of the encoding using standardized profiles in faster than realtime. Also, you'll want your PC to have as fast of a processor as you can, because lots of encoding may depend on that, or just working with video editing in general. Having at least 4GB of system memory helps too. If you're working with the Adobe collection, I'd look into the new Nvidia Quadro cards. They have specifically optimized drivers and software just for such tasks as well. A gaming card won't do you much good.
 
I do a lot of work (wedding/baptism/birthday post-processing) in Pinnacle Studio 11 (moving to 12 one day soon) However, the only requirement is at least 128MB and HARDWARE DirectX9 or better support. Now, don't think that those on-board DirectX9 boards will do it. Anything above a GF6800 or ATI1XXX series will work fine and you may not see a big improvement in rendering time.

I currently use a GF8800 and X1950 on both my Quad boxes to make video.
 
The cpu is probably the most important for video encoding. Get a decent video card and you should be good to go.
 
KingTKS said:
so i was looking for information on video cards for video editing. i'm currently looking at the GTX200 series and was wonder what specifics on a video card are most important.

We arn't specifically doing high definition video editing. but it would be nice to be able to try. The #1 Priority is time efficiency. we do a lot of videos in DVD quality and we want them to specifically render as fast as possible. Pinnacle studio 12 is what we use.

So is the ram speed the most important? stream processors? i can't imagine more then 1gb of video ram is necessary. is the core clock more imporant? or the memory interface more important?

Thanks
Trevor
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actually depending you your software video memory is important, the one time I like the 2gb video cards. check with your software, if it works I think the 4850 2gb models would work just fine for you.
 
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