How important is a video card for light video editting?

[n7]

My gf does some video work with video from her camcorder, basically using Pinnacle to cut & edit for VCDs.

I am going to steal the 9800 Pro out of my main rig to use in my new one, & i was hoping to just stick a cheap 7000 Pro or something in there in its place.

Is that going to cause any adverse effects; is that adequate to run the stuff she's doing?


I really don't know how much that kind of work is impacted by a video card, so advice would be welcome

 

[Matthias99]

I really don't know how much that kind of work is impacted by a video card, so advice would be welcome

Zero impact (unless you have an AIW/VIVO card and are using it for capture). Why do so many people have this bizarre belief that video editing has anything to do with your video card?

 

[n7]

Now i know, thanx.

I just figured maybe when it's being encoded, it utilized a video card.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: n7
Now i know, thanx.

I just figured maybe when it's being encoded, it utilized a video card.

nope pure CPU

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

I really don't know how much that kind of work is impacted by a video card, so advice would be welcome

Zero impact (unless you have an AIW/VIVO card and are using it for capture). Why do so many people have this bizarre belief that video editing has anything to do with your video card?

Not real bizarre. If it were an AIW 9800pro, it could have a "little" impact (besides capture) because the cobra engine provides a hardware assist for MPEG-2 encoding using the shader pipeline and Pinnacle Studio supports hardware acceleration for the preview window which is handy for setting up transitions without re-encoding to see if you have it right.

If NV ever gets their programmable video processor working on 6800, it reputable can take a much larger load off the CPU, whether that refers to acclerating previews and transitions, and real time effects like ATI, or actually to speed up the encoding process as well..we'll see.