No, the card won't help much with editing, and the amount you're planning to spend should be more than adequate. Here's the deal:
The video editing process makes heavy use of CPU power at times, especially when it has to reconstruct video frames and apply effects and transitions all in real-time speeds. A video graphics card does not contribute to this part of processing. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 will make use of up to 16 CPU's so getting a quad core machine will help a lot since there are more processors crunching at the video in parallel, giving you faster results. Heavy-duty video graphics cards are most useful for things such as games or CAD software in which a lot of the frames themselves are created or built up at run time. When you are rendering or exporting video from Premiere Pro, the frames are built at that time, so during video playback the video card does not reconstruct anything. This is different from how games work. Games can react to user input; they build scenes instantly during run time, applying angles, lighting and shadows, surface object fills, and many other complex processing functions, frame by frame while the program is running. To aid with that kind of processing, video graphics cards have on-board graphics computer processors which are designed specifically for those kind of tasks (GPU's). However, video cards aid other display things, such as zoom, so a decent card running in the computer will still be appreciated by you. But it doesn't have to be the top-of-the-line card that a gamer would want. Some people recommend 512MB on-board video memory (some cards may use 512KB by also using main memory) although 256 may be just fine. Note that the PCIe buss slot is newer and it uses a protocol that replaces the older AGP protocol. FireWire is a hardware port protocol and not relevant to the other questions. I haven't heard anyone say whether Audition uses multi-processors, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did, also. Lee From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Puentes Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] PCIe slot Hi, I just found out that the new computer I'm planning on having built will have a PCIe (express) slot. I was following the thread a while ago about the AGN slot and don't know if I'm completely understanding so here goes an attempt and please correct me and toss in your suggestions: I use Adobe Premiere primarily to edit miniDV Video. So I understand that the Video Card is primarily for the way the screen will display things but will not necessarily help with the editing. The new computer will already have FireWire built in. my main question is can I invest $300-$400 in "a card" to be used in that PCIe slot that will help in the actual Editing of theVideo???? If that price range will get me some editing value what are some possible candidate cards I should consider? If $300-$400 is not enough to make a difference then how much would I need to spend minimum and what are some of the options? Are there other questions I should be asking? thanks, Figen Tek-Puentes Triangle Area of NC ps: my husband does a lot of audio podcasting and uses Adobe Audition but that is not something that needs to be considered in this discussion, right?????? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
