BestVideo card?

sguandal@gmail.com wrote on 1/30/2011, 4:35 PM

Burning BluRay DVDs with videos obtained in Vegas Pro 10 in HD (I use a Canon EOS 5D Mark II that gives .MOV files in 1980x 1080 at 29.9fps) has proved quite impossible with my current configuration (Windows 7 64 bits, Intel Quad 2 at 2.8GHz, RAM 8 gb). Thus am consider a new, higher speed, more RAM PC, but my question is: what Video Card would best fit these needs?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/31/2011, 6:04 AM

It's not likely a new video card will affect your performance much with DVD Architect -- or even more RAM for that matter. Although, for most video editing, a card that includes pixel shading is recommended. You don't need a monster gaming card. A 256 mb video card should be plenty!

You've already got a very powerful computer, so I'm not sure upgrading to an even faster model would be a good investment at this time.

Meantime, for more efficiency with DVD Architect, a better solution would be to bring that raw video into Vegas first and then output it as DVD or BluRay-ready video, which will perform much more efficiently in DVD Architect than that raw DSLR video.

sguandal@gmail.com wrote on 1/31/2011, 11:17 AM

Thanks for your input. However, (evidently I was not too clear in my posting) I already prepare my final video in Vegas Pro, and then I try to output this as a movie clip ready to burn. But here is where the problem starts: if I try the highest def for BD, then the rendering (of - say - a 40 minutes .avi movie) takes forever and often the computer freezes. It is this that I am trying to avoid.