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Video Card for Premiere Pro
Hello,
I just recently purchased a computer to edit HD footage in Premiere Pro CS5. The processor speed is good, but I’ve found out the graphics card that came with the computer doesn’t have the memory to play HD footage smoothly on the timeline. Here are the specs (ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 dedicated video memory)
Right now, the footage needs to be rendered just to see the full res. Add any filters, and the render take a very long time. Any recommendations on a video card to boost my speed? Thanks.
Nathan
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7 Replies
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Since the display card has no bearing on video playback per se…I’d be curious to know what the rest of the configuration is…and what kind of material you’re playing. Need to know RAM, processor, core count, harddrive capacity, configuration.
Display cards CAN help with effects preview (provided they’re NVIDIA CUDA cards approved for Mercury) but they have nothing to do with video decode muscle or playback speed…you need drive torque and processor muscle for that.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
What type of media? HDV? AVCHD? XDcamEX? etc…
What sort of harddrive are you using. The BH spec just says it has a 1TB internal drive.
What did you add for a video RAID or what external drive assembly are you using?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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AVCHD. Shot from footage from the Pansonic HMC 150.
All I know is that it has a Serial ATA Hard Drive. No external hard drives or RAID. I really don’t know a heck a lot about computers. Thanks for the help.Nathan
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You need to get another harddrive for video data, a single harddrive whether partitioned or not can’t handle video work and computer housekeeping concurently, one gig memory on a video card is usually good enough for HD playback, I’ve done it on other systems with 512m
You should also get a recomended nvidia card to aid in realtime editing or one that can be hacked
https://www.indiev.org/?p=317
There are other articles on the net about this, do a search -
I suggest following Brian’s advice. I picked up a $100 nVidia GT240 and hacked it for Premiere. I don’t need to render any basic effects (luma curves etc) on 1080p footage in my timeline and my final renderings have sped up by at least 3x.
My Computer:
AMD Phenom x4 (2.8gHz)
8gigs RAM
nVidia GT240 with 1gig DDR3 vRAM -
Thanks for the help guys! It’s much appreciated. However, I did talk with the guys at Nvidia, and they recommended a Quadro 4000. My only hesitation is that it only has around 250mb of memory. They said the GeoForce cards are more for consumers while the Quadros are for professionals, and I would be better off getting that one. Any thoughts?
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