Good Graphics card for PPRO 1.5

[Bill Buchanan]

I’m convinced all nVidia cards are designed for gamers. I’ve had a terrible time with the damn things. I first tried a 5200. Bad move. Then a 6600GT. Unstable. And now I’m trying to make a 6800GT behave itself.

The only reason I’m sort of stuck with nVidia is because I’m using the Magic Bullet Editors plugin whose notoriously slow rendering speeds are dramatically accelerated by (and only by at this point) certain nVidia cards. I’ve been unable to get any kind of support from either nVidia or from ASUS, who “manufactures” and sells my particular card.

I’d sure try ATI before you settle on something. Though BMD doesn’t support Matrox, I had no trouble with a 128mg Parhelia prior to going with nVidia. Who knows. Maybe other nVidia users know how to make them work.

Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co.

[Mike Carro]

hmmm, okay thanks for the input. I wonder why Adobe has them listed as full support? I mean it’s only them and ATI listed on their website. I’m not using any capture cards other than firewire so that shouldn’t interfere. I’m trying not to get a new system yet untill I decide whether to go to final cut or not so I’m kinda patching as I go. I wonder if it could be an Athlon issue?
I’m going to try it on single monitor only and see if it changes the perfomance.
Anybody else got some insight?

[Peter Corbett]

Mike,

I’ve had good success with a BFG 6800GT and now a BFG 7800GTX. As stated the Nvidia cards really make Magic Bullet renders fly. The 7800GTX is fast! But there is the next NVidis series coming in June. Can you wait? 😉

Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
http://www.php.com.au

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[Mike Carro] “Well, got my dual monitor situation straightened out but now the playback is jerky and so are DVD playback in other programs for that matter.
The card I bought was Nvidia GeForce 6200. I bought this because I wanted dual monitor. But I see that this card is really intended for Video Gaming”

Jerky playback may be another problem other than the video card, junk video playback is usually caused by something hogging the buss or its bandwidth, you may have other software interferring with your editing or something else, something as simplistic as a harddrive not being set to DMA will do it, a TSR like a printer monitor, a sound card driver, or video card driver, etc.