Subject: Do I need a good Graphic Card?

Hello Premierers,

I am editing with Premiere Pro 2.0 & MSWindows XP (SP2).

My hardware configuration is:
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 BOX 1,86 2MB 1 0
- Mother bord: P4 Gigabyte 94Sp-S3 ATX Sochet 775
- 3 SATA HD (500;300;300)
- Graphic Card: SVGA ASUS X550 512MB HM PCX
- RAM: 2 GB

Some months ago I started to edit with HDV recordings, and nowadays quite all of my recordings are HDV. The quality is much better than SD, but the performance is much worse.

I am waiting for ‘Premiere Elements 7’ in order to start editing with AVCHD recordings. I will order it as soon as PE7 is in the market (October?).

I would like to improve the performance, and I think that changing the graphic card could improve the performance a lot, but I am not sure about it.

Questions:

- Will I increase my performance in PP20 if I change my graphic card for an “NVIDIA Geforce 8800 PC-Express? , How much?

- Will I increase my performance in PE70 if I change my graphic card for an “NVIDIA Geforce 8800 PC-Express? , How much?

- How much of the power of this graphic card is used by PP20? ¿And PE70?

- Do you have any ideas to increase my performance? How much?

Thanks in advanced.
SiriNeos.

Hi everybody. I read a lot of info about that but can't seem to find an answer. I am interested in video editing (Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Sony Vegas and other) and was wondering whether investing in a professional (workstation) card (such as FireGL or Quadro) will accelerate the rendering process in the above programs? I know that a workstation card greatly improves wireframe editing in CAD programs, and that is good since I deal with 3DS Max too, but what about High definition video editing/ rendering? At the moment I am torn between ATI Radeon HD 4850, ATI FireGL 5600 and some other alternatives...
Also- when it comes to video editing software (rendering scenes) is the CPU still much more important than the GPU or a FireGL will make a big difference when rendering? I ask because I...

Hi

I'm currently editing DV video, but I plan to upgrade my camera to a full HD (1920x1080) camera. Doing so, which upgrades should I do with my PC?

Currently system:
Premiere 2.0
HDDs:
a) 1 HHD for programs (XP, P2.0 etc)
b) 1 HDD for media
c) 1 HDD as scratch disk (and exporting to mpeg from P2.0)
2 GB RAM
Win XP
Intel Dual Core 2,4 GHz

I plan to upgrade to a BlueRay burner - but should I upgrade to RAID disks (striping), and if so, which of a) b) and c) need RAID? Are my HDD settings appropriate?

When importing full HD material (using ForeWire), how much disk space does HD use per hour video (DV uses approx. 12 GB, what about HD?)

Thanx
Nicolaj

I have been using the Samsung 244T dual monitor setup for 2.5 yrs now. Got these suckers when they first came out. I cannot find anything better.
I have used others, Dell, HP, etc.
I recently upgrade my home system to an AVID system for $28K. Including external monitor, software, hardware and Sony HVRM25 deck.
I bought the exact same monitors for that as well. I cannot find anything that beats these samsungs.
Very versitile.

This is for my video and photo work. Broadcast projects on SPEED Channel with my Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 setup, graphics for billboards and hundreds of magazines with photoshop as well as hundreds of videos for DVD, Web and showroom digital signage.

With 12 years in the digital editing realm, I have had experience with most of what is out there today, I still prefer Adobe even over then new AVID system that I just purchased.

And the Samsung 244T is the Bomb-Digity...

PP 2.0 does run on a Mac if it's set up as a dual boot system and you run the Windows version of the software in the Windows XP environment. The software works perfectly in every respect except that I can't see any video on an external monitor through a firewire device, such as a camcorder.

And with all due respect, I'd like to find out if I'm just having a driver or setup issue with the built in firewire, and stay away from the idea that it doesn't work just because it's a Mac. I've used several platforms in the 20+ years I've been in video production, and the issues I've had have rarely been with the OS I'm working in, but more with certain features in whichever editing software I used. I try to stay away from the whole Mac/PC debate.

So yes, I am using a Mac, but PP 2.0 is running purely in a Windows XP environment, using a 24" flat screen, a Western Digital hard drive, a Pioneer DVD drive, an nVidia graphics card, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and an OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 host controller using Microsoft drivers.

Based on this further info, can anyone think of something that might help fix the problem I'm having?

Thanks

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Hugo,

You can get a Pyro converter box for about $100 or so dollars I believe. It plugs into your FireWire card, and can accept Y/C (SVideo) or composite signals with audio....also, one more plug for FireWire for your camcorder or deck.

Also, it can output a firewire signal (say, your program monitor inside Premiere Pro) back out through the box to a TV via Y/C or composite with audio. Works with PPro.

Sounds like this may be what you need.

this is our new motherboard, spotted at CeBit 2007... 16 cores (Intel Harpertown) running at 3GHz and 1600MHz FSB with the 512MB requirement on each core (8GB RAM) on Vista64 with PPro and AE, AND dual x16 slots!

That's Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast!

<http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/cebit2007-5_5.html>

Jon,
So I have been out of the video editing loop for a long time (about 3 years). I love my Premiere 6.02, but when I tried to run it (Mar 2007) with my Win2k system using a MiroDV Capture card (Studio 7), I found glitches during transitions. Grumble. Support for everything is so old, it pains me to start from scratch.

My question for you (since you sound like you dabble more than professioal edit) is what hardware do you suggest? I have a JVC GZ-MG20U camera. That is the HDD camera with a USB connection that allows the drive to be mapped. The only problem is that the files are *.MOD and can not be read by Premiere. So I used my Studio 7 capture card to capture the video with the RCA line in. Not the best quality, but it is perfect for home use. The only problem is that it flickers on transitions.

I want a capture card that can accept S-Vid and RCA because I have old tapes that I may want to edit, but don't want to break my bank. Any ideas on an affordable capture card that is compliant with Adobe Premiere 6.02? Should I just bite the bullet and buy CS3 + a new OCHI compliant capture card?

Thanks.

I am kinda commited now to the c/d drive as its set up that way now.. What i need to do then is install one more drive to do what you say.. I want to be specific

media cache database location?

Captured video? 1.5 TB?

Captired Audio?

Video Previews?

Audio Previews?

Media Cache ?

DVD Encodeing ?

The Project its self?

Right now all of these are pointed at my new 1.5 raid

Can you please treat me as stupid and advise me as to each path.. I will install one more drive which will give me three drives