What's the best video card for video editing? ATI or nVidia! which model?
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It depends on the editing program you use.
For example, I know Adobe's website lists what cards Premiere fully supports.
One hint, if you're using a 32-bit version of XP or Vista, the most RAM it will support is 3gb.
Make sure you have multiple hard drives setup.
Minimum of three:
One for Windows
One for your "scratch" disk
and one for your pagefile and storage
Hi,
I am a professional video producer and this is the spec of the PC I bought just a couple of months ago from Dell;
Dell Dimension 9200
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB) Genuine Windows® XP Professional
3GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs
Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
20 inch E207WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Dell Optical USB Mouse
16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Warranty & Service 1 Year On-site Economy Plan
Optional Ports IEEE 1394 Adapter
You can still find these at Dell for around $1,100. Today, after editing a 75 minute video on that computer, I rendered the full video to uncompressed .avi using Sony Movie Studio.
The render process for the complete 75 minute video, took just 21 minutes and 16 seconds! While rendering, I had Audacity, Camtasia, and Paint Shop Pro open.
On my older computers, it would take about 120 minutes to render 60 minutes of video - about 2 minutes of rendering for each minute of video. On the new computer, it takes 20 seconds of rendering for each minute of video - saving me hours for each render.
Hope that helps.
Pete
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