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Graphics card
Greetings,
I am building a new Quad Core I7 and need some input on the graphics card. I will be capturing (via Blackmagic intensity pro), editing and rendering SD and HD. I am currently looking at the quadro FX 3500- am I in the right ball park? I would prefer to spend less on a card if possible…. However i am not sure? Please help -
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many ae users (myself included) feel that ae’s implementation of opengl is not so great and causes stability issues. so many of us just turn off opengl acceleration in the preview preferences and stick with multiprocessing for accelerated preview rendering.
i wouldn’t by a high end card thinking it would help you much in ae. pretty much any consumer grade card will suffice for ae if you have opengl disabled. i would spend my graphics card money on ram (2gb per processing core is recommended) and a 64-bit os to address all that ram.
a good card may help you with other software.. 3d software for sure, but even many nles have opengl accelerated effects for blurs, color adjustments and other effects, so base your decision on that.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Kevin,
thanks for that info. How much does the graphics card have to do the rendering side? is all the fuss about graphics for the editors view and the rendering quality is based on what?Thanks
Allan -
On the rendering side in AE the graphics card does close to nothing. The occasional plugin will use the GPU but in general you’re better off getting a fast CPU, fast RAM on a fast system buss (the i7 will offer that) than a Quadro card.
For After Effects anyway.
Bar3nd
Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects
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