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Does a Video Card affect Video Capture and Editing Performance?

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mitchelt

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Hi,

I was planning on getting a new computer that I will use for general use, Photoshop and Premiere (video editing for home videos).

I am OK with my processor choice: Intel Core 2 Q6600 G0 Stepping, but I am not sure if the type of video card affects Photoshop and Video Capturing / Editing performance?

I will be transferring video from the camcorder to the PC via firewire.

Do I need a big bad "GeForce 8800GTS 640MB" or will a cheaper card work?

This PC will not be used as a game machine, ok...maybe a little but not much as we are expecting our first child in January and will be busy. 🙂

Thanks!

Mitch
 
I asked a similar question before and the people here told me that between a 6600GT and 7800GTX there wouldn't be any difference.

I have a X1800XL and used it for video editing for home videos and it does the job for me but I would have to say that the program that you use to do the video editing is important.


If you have any other questions feel free.
 
As far as I know, vid card does not affect capture or editing. Capture (on the cameras i've used) always happens at 1x speed and just uses your HD/CPU. For editing, I'm pretty sure the temporary previews in Premier are rendered in software.

The only thing a video card might help in is encoding, and that, only if the card does hardware accelerated encoding.
 
While working video with Premiere Pro 2.0 the playback was stuttering awfully that was when I had ATI Radeon X850 card and 1GB memory. Last month I bought new Diamond Viper X1950 and upgraded to 2GB memory, the stutter was gone. I don't know which has helped alot by video card or extra memory.
 
Video cards do not affect performance in Premiere Pro. You've most likely gained the speed from the memory upgrade.
I've used Premiere Pro 1.5 with AMD/ATI onboard video, a Radeon X1600 Pro, and a X800GT. None of them made a difference.

Although I would recommend staying away from integrated video solutions. Just for the fact that they suck some of your memory bandwidth away from the applications. A discrete video card does not. (it did work for me, but I wouldn't guarantee it would all the time).
 
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