good video card to go with premiere pro?

[Steven L. gotz]

No. You do not. The only real value one of those cards provides is the ability to see your output on an external monitor. I recommend one of the less expensive Canopus ADVC cards for that purpose. Modern PCs can render fast enough to not need assistance.

My new PC is a real workhorse, and I got rid of my Canopus DVStorm2 a long time ago.

https://www.stevengotz.com/pc.htm

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Harm Millaard]

All you need is a simple OHCI compliant firewire card and you can get video on an external monitor through firewire as well. Stay away from capture cards.

Harm Millaard

[Jinro1]

i will keep that in mind. how about rendering?will it be fast enough also? im also gonna be using after effects. as of now im contemplating weather to get an intel p4 or an amd athlon..any advice?
thanks for the info

[Jinro1]

i will keep that in mind. how about rendering?will it be fast enough also? im also gonna be using after effects. as of now im contemplating weather to get an intel p4 or an amd athlon..any advice?
thanks for the info

[Harm Millaard]

Depends on your budget. If budget is not a serious constraint, I would look at a configuration like this:

1. Chassis: Supermicro CSe-745tq-r800b
2. Mobo: Supermicro X7DAE
3. Processors: 2 Intel Xeon 5345 quad core CPU’s
4. Memory: Kingston KVR667D8F5K2/2G (2x)
5. Video: PNY Quadro FX1500
6. Raid: Areca ARC-1230 V2 1GB
7. Boot disk: WD Raptor 1500AHFD
8. Storage: 8x Seagate 7200.10 SATA-2 500 GB in Raid5
9. DVD: 2x NEC AD-7173

That gives you some room for the future, albeit at a cost.

Harm Millaard

[Tim Kolb]

Keep in mind that current quad core processors have the same amount of bandwidth on/off the CPU and they use slower ram/busses than the current best dual cores.

This configuration would best benefit applications like 3d rendering where there isn’t a lot of data throughput, but heavy processing is needed. Video editing, particularly HD benefits more from “size-of-pipe” than “speed-of-pump”.

As far as a video card goes…for DV editing I like the idea of using a very easy, basic FW card for video input/output and look at the possibility of a Matrox APVe for a display card. It will run two computer monitors for your computer desktop, and run video to a video monitor to watch your video on a production monitor.

Power for Adobe PPro is about buss speed and amount of RAM, the speed of your harddrives, then the speed of the processor.

TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,

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[Harm Millaard]

That is the reason for the 1333 FSB, 8 GB RAM, 8 disk Raid5 on the 1230.

Harm Millaard

[Jinro1]

In that case, i’am considering this set up,

amd athlon 64-bit cpu( i think it has firewire already)
a pny or ati graphics card
2gb memory
(3) 160 gb sata hardrive
17″ samsung lcd widescreen

*will this be powerful enough to run premiere pro, after effects and photoshop? im really after the video-out option of after effects, to see the output in a tv monitor.

[Harm Millaard]

I’m not a fan of AMD. The Intel Core 2 Duo is much faster. Also I would look at a 19″ or larger monitor. It makes editing so much easier with the added real estate and the price difference is small. The same applies to HD’s. For the boot disk anything larger than 80 GB is a waste of space, but for the other 2 you have in mind, I would look at 300 or 320 GB each. In price/GB they are the most attractive currently.

Harm Millaard