• Adobe After Effects

  video card opinions

  Posted by John Castelli on May 3, 2008 at 2:33 pm

  Hi all,

  I was jsut wondering if any of you have used the nvidia GTX 8800 with AE and how it performs. I currently have a nvidia quadro fx 1400- and and thinking of getting the GTX 8800 in hopes that it will increase my performance. Any opinions or suggestions?

  Thanks!

  John

  Jerry Jones replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

• 

  Brendan Coots

  May 3, 2008 at 11:46 pm

  You will actually LOSE performance going with this or any other Geforce-based card over your Quadro. Quadro cards have features favorable to content creation that the consumer-focused Geforce cards do not, including superior OpenGL functionality.

  I would not recommend switching cards unless you play games more than you use AE or other DCC apps.

  Brendan Coots
  Splitvision Digital
  http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
• 

  John Castelli

  May 3, 2008 at 11:48 pm

  Thank you for your response,

  That makes it an easy choice- I’ll stick with what I’ve got. If I want to upgrade, I’ll save up and get a more recent quadro fx video card.

  Thanks so much!

  John Castelli
• 

  Jerry Jones

  May 4, 2008 at 6:47 pm

  I just got the NVIDIA e-GeForce 8800 GTS card for my computer so that it would run Boris Blue 2.5 and also After Effects….but I have had a hard time getting things to work once it was installed. One day of tweaking everything, and still no luck. Boris refuses to open, and After Effects gives errors.

  I have sent a message to the Boris Blue admin to ask about settings which may need to be adjusted, but so far no reply.

  I think it may have something to do with my install, because it effected BOTH Boris and After Effects.

  If I get it working, I’ll post in here to let you know how good it works…if it ever starts working.

  (I have adjusted BIOS, motherboard disabling of on-board video, etc., and still nothing.)

  Jerry
  Jerry@JGJMedia.com

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up