Video card recommendation

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What kind of Video card performance is recommended for an AVCHD editing machine? I'll be using Premier Pro CS4 on Vista 64 with an i7 (rig3)

 

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What's your budget? Nivida has a plugin out already called elemental accelerator but that requires a quadro card. You might be better off with an ATI card though since it seems their plugin is more universal and may be free. However the ATI stream encoder plugin is still in beta so it may be more buggy.

Nvidia Elemental
http://www.nvidia.com/object/builtforadobepros_plugins.html

ATI Stream
http://forums.amd.com/forum/message...TPAGE=2&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear&#lastunread