Video card for a video editing machine...

[slaves123]

I sell computers here in Argentina... and i've meet a man which really needs a good machine for video editing... professionally of course... it's not a joke... and i'll try to offer him the best posibilities avaliable... as he earns lot of money with his job the cost of the machine is irrelevant... but i'm trying to mantain some limits... fot example... only one processor... and no more as 2Gb of RAM... i'm posting here specifically to get help about the video card... I know there are some Matrox for less than four hundred dollars... and that there are Geforces Quadro for more than three thousands... but which would you choose? remember... if the card you are thinkg about is too expensive... it doesn't matter... but please give other posibilities... even if this is only a project, i'm interested in learning fot the future... thank you very very much

Mauro


PS: Video editing... i'm refering to enconding a decoding enourmes pieces of video and audio... he works for some cinemas... i don't know very well... but as least you know which kind of product are we talking about, bye

 

[SneakyStuff]

Niceness

 

[JohnAn2112]

Is he using more than 1 monitor? Look into the Matrox Parhelia.

 

[PrayForDeath]

I think the latest 3DLabs WildCat Realism something is the best performing card in the proffesional video editing domaine at the moment, next comes the Quadro FX based on 6800 series then comes the FireGL based on X800 series, and IIRC the 3DLabs card costs around 1300$ while the Quadro costs ~1800$ and the FireGL costs ~800$, I am not sure though.
There was a thread a while ago on a review benchmarking all these cards in different apps, try to look for it.

 

[LethalWolfe]

If he's encoding video such as MPEG-2 you can buy a card that is specially made to encode MPEG-2 in real time. 3D cards make little to no difference in the speed of a professional editing rig (video is 2D). CPU speed, RAM, and HDD speed and amount are the big things you want to worry about. Unless the client is working w/DV only he'll need a way to input/output analog and higher quality digital formats. Something like a prodcut from aja.com.


Lethal