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Best card for video editing?

Glass

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Building a system for a mate, he is going to be using the system for video editing using Avid Express.

At the moment he has a two monitor setup, I am guessing these are vga connections.

So looking for a dual head card, recommendations please. (PCI-E)
 
What is the budget here? Will your mate be gaming? Do the connections need to be DVI? For video editing as I understand it, the graphics card doesn't need to be hugely powerful since the main work is done by the CPU.
 
As Semi Pro said, Video Editing (Encoding) isnt particular GPU intensive. Its more CPU.

If he`s gaming you might as well get a decent card, whats the budget by the way?
 
Budget would be around £50-75.

I've just had a look at the avid website and they recommend these, I'm not sure what the benifit of the quadro chipset is if any?



NVIDIA QuadroFX 3500 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 3450 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 3400 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 1500 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 1400 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 1300 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 560 PCI Express
NVIDIA QuadroFX 550 PCI Express


I am guessing the card would have to have dual heads so I can output to two monitors again not sure on this, is there a 2-1 cable?

The system si being built for editing, so no gaming is required however there may be a day when he wants to upgrade to vista, I've recommened he steer clear of it as you'll get better preformace with XP and I don't think avid can run on vista.
 
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You need a dual head card to run two monitors or a VGA splitter but this will clone each screen rather than expanding the desktop.

I have a 3 monitor setup.And run two graphics cards.

8800 GTS running my widescreen and a 256MB 5200 PCI driving the two 17" monitors at each side.

You just need a card with enough ram that will allow the resolutions.

I use

AVID
Adobe production Studio
Pro Tools
 
Glass said:
how about nvidia cards? I tend to lean towards ATI for my own builds however Avid are recommending nvidia chipsets on thier website so would like to have the least amount of issues possible when he goes to install avid.
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8800
 
how about nvidia cards? I tend to lean towards ATI for my own builds however Avid are recommending nvidia chipsets on thier website so would like to have the least amount of issues possible when he goes to install avid.

Easyrider, what would the benifit of a DX10 card be in a system not built for games? The 8800 is not in budget.
 
Glass said:
how about nvidia cards? I tend to lean towards ATI for my own builds however Avid are recommending nvidia chipsets on thier website so would like to have the least amount of issues possible when he goes to install avid.

Easyrider, what would the benifit of a DX10 card be in a system not built for games? The 8800 is not in budget.
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Vista?

TBH anything would do 7900 GS?
 
Given the budget I think a 7600GT is probably the best you can do, I don't imagine any of the full Quadro cards will be in budget, however I beleive some of the ordinary Nvidia cards can be modded to work as if they were Quadros via a simple bios flash. A bit of research into that might be in order. :)
 
Quadro is optimised for CAD (and it seems video editing), very powerful graphics cards although not much use for gaming at all. According to Wikipedia it appears that the FX560 uses the same chip as the 7600 cards so it may be possible to flash the bios of it but I don't know about that. :)
 
Glass said:
What's the benifit of Quadro ?
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Proven Workstation Graphics Architecture
Parallel vertex engines, fully programmable pixel pipelines, and other workstation specific features result in the industry's highest professional application performance and quality.

Next Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability
Enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects (such as fresnel effects, chromatic dispersion, reflection, refraction, etc.), and surface properties (such as casting effects, porosity, molded surfaces, etc.).

Just get a card with 256mb ram like a 7600 GT.

A 8600 GT would do also.
 
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