radeon HD 4850 X2 video card with Avid media composer
hi,
need some experienced advice. i'm looking for a graphics card for my editing/development system and the videoguys recommended fx 1700 is beyond my budget. editing and compositing represent about 20% of my time, so it's not the absolutely most important part of my system. i'm really trying to stay around the $250 or so range.
i saw this review on the radeon 4850 x2
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-gtx,2270-4.html
will this card work with avid media composer even though avid won't officially support anything other than nvidia? the videoguys system recommendations mention ati cards by brand, but no specific models.
http://www.videoguys.com/Guide/E/Videoguys+System+recommendations+for+Video+Editing/0x4aebb06ba071d2b6a2cd784ce243a6c6.aspx
thnx for all help!
need some experienced advice. i'm looking for a graphics card for my editing/development system and the videoguys recommended fx 1700 is beyond my budget. editing and compositing represent about 20% of my time, so it's not the absolutely most important part of my system. i'm really trying to stay around the $250 or so range.
i saw this review on the radeon 4850 x2
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-gtx,2270-4.html
will this card work with avid media composer even though avid won't officially support anything other than nvidia? the videoguys system recommendations mention ati cards by brand, but no specific models.
http://www.videoguys.com/Guide/E/Videoguys+System+recommendations+for+Video+Editing/0x4aebb06ba071d2b6a2cd784ce243a6c6.aspx
thnx for all help!
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hi,
thanx for that. i have 2 monitors. i will be doing some compositing, so that needs lots of polygons, but it's not a big part of my work.
avid has a terrible attitude and customer service, so getting this info from them would be impossible ... always the company line "we only recommend ...." etc.
so, the question is:
what is the best nvidia card i can get for around $250?
thanx again!
thanx for that. i have 2 monitors. i will be doing some compositing, so that needs lots of polygons, but it's not a big part of my work.
avid has a terrible attitude and customer service, so getting this info from them would be impossible ... always the company line "we only recommend ...." etc.
so, the question is:
what is the best nvidia card i can get for around $250?
thanx again!
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However, in video editing, ironically, your video card has less of a bearing than in gaming or animation. This is because of how textures are rendered dynamically.
That being said, what is your monitor configuration? If you have one or two monitors, then a ~$200 card will suffice. The more memory on the card, the better. If you are really frisky, you could get a pair of 9800GTX and SLI them together - but honestly, I think that would be overkill.
Focus on processor, memory, and fast HDDs with lots of space in a RAID configuration.
If you want to compare apples to apples when it comes to video cards, check here: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php