I agree.  I have three clients using PIII 1g systems or better with 32mb
Nvidia value cards (the ones at half the price) made three years ago with
32mb ram.  They all use Pinnacle DV500 or DV500 Plus with Firewire
connections, Adobe Premeire 6 or 6.5 and Windows XP Pro.  They would all
tell you that a faster CPU and more memory will make for faster production
and more money in  the digital video business.  A faster, bigger hard drive
will help with frequent defrags will help tremendously too!
Howard in Fortaleza, Brazil


RE:
Date:    Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:21:48 +1000
From:    Ultra <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Video Card Suggestions

video card has very little to do with video editing performance, any card
will do in fact.  What you are looking for, is something that good at 2D,
and  inexpensive.  Matrox card is good at 2D, but their price is always rip
off (compare what they can offer).  You may look for a ATi card, maybe one
of early ATi card (eg R7500) which is very good at 2D as well, and cost much
less than Matrox, plus reasonable 3D performance at its price (Matrox is
hopeless at 3D).

video editing performance is very much depending on CPU, RAM and HDD.

Jun Qian

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