[Rik Mahieu]

I defenitely agree on the chair, luckily I have a good one 🙂 Must not get too comfortable, as I might not want to work anymore at all..

But about the video card, I use Premiere and Photoshop as well, but regarding to AE I just want faster Interactive previews, image quality doesn’t matter too much until final render, just for motion tweaking etc. But it just has to be faster than my old 7900GTX..

So if graphics memory size (frame buffer) doesn’t make much difference, I’ll just save some money for now and use it for a nice monitor indeed (Dell U2410 or Apple’s 24″ Cinema), any comments about those monitors are welcome as well, but that’s probably a different topic.

[Rik Mahieu]

Thanks for your answers so far! The reason I’m asking:

I recently upgraded my system and I would like to figure out if I should replace my old 7900GTX (which is OpenGL compatible) for a newer model (like a GTX275 or a more expensive GTX295) or wait for the new GTX300 series which are supposed to be released in 2010 as well as Adobe CS5 which has some promising statements regarding OpenGL, CUDA and GPU based encoding..

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/511974?tstart=-1
https://aeportal.blogspot.com/2009/09/adobe-demos-nvidia-cuda-acceleration.html
https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2009/10/its_official_the_future_of_ado.html

The bottom line is, I (like everyone) just want a more efficient workflow and I’m just curious about what parts of a video card really boost performance in software like Adobe CS4/CS5, because I’ve read a lot about CUDA, OpenGL/OpenCL, GPU encoding and Nvidia’s gain over ATi with plugins like Red Giant Looks etc. There has to be some performance gain, but in which way, I just can’t find clear answers…

[Rik Mahieu]

For a FF effect you could do the following. Slow down footage with 50%, this will give you twice the amount of frames. Go to the beginning of your clip, skip the first two frames, now cut four frames out, skip two frames and cut out four frames again, repeat these steps untill you;ve reached the end of the clip. Now export movie and import again and your footage has the same amount of frames as before. Play with the speed to get desired speed/look.

Make “scanlines” in photoshop and export as PNG-file. Import in Premiere and put the scanlines image on top of your footage. Play with the Blending Mode (under opacity) like ‘color doge’. Now apply a displacement map (turbulent displace) to make scanlines jitter/distort. Copy this filter and paste it on footage beneath it.

You could also play with the lens distortion filter, bend, wave warp and offset filters.

Hope this is what you’re looking for.

cheers