Cheap card for video in and rendering?

[JCase]

My brother is about to purchase a digital video camera and wants to edit movies (likely with premiere). His current video card is a super cheap ATI 7500. What would be a decent, cheap (~$50-60) card that would allow him to edit and render his movies at decent rates? I guess he doesn't actually need video in since he'll be using usb to transfer the files, so the crucial ability is power to edit the films. Thanks in advance. 3

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

What are you rendering?

 

[RobotOfHatred]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
What are you rendering?

movies

PCI-E or AGP?

for PCI-E:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-140-055&depa=1

for AGP

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-125-136&depa=1

or Cheaper (for AGP)

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-525&depa=1

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I didn't know you needed a decent videocard to do video editing... I thought it was encoding video that was the power hungry part, which is CPU dependent.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: JCase
My brother is about to purchase a digital video camera and wants to edit movies (likely with premiere). His current video card is a super cheap ATI 7500. What would be a decent, cheap (~$50-60) card that would allow him to edit and render his movies at decent rates? I guess he doesn't actually need video in since he'll be using usb to transfer the files, so the crucial ability is power to edit the films. Thanks in advance. 3

Video editing does not use your video card at all (with limited exceptions for doing realtime previews of effects, etc.). If he has a DV camera and is capturing via FireWire (or, I guess, USB2.0 on some cameras), his current video card is fine.

All the editing is done in software. You'll need a *lot* of hard drive space, though.

 

[Munky]

Just stick with the card you already have, and save yourself some money. A newer card won't make any difference for video editing.