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auggybendoggy wrote on 11/3/2006, 9:05 PM

Guys,
what is a mpg pci encoder card? What will this do for us who might buyt it. I'm looking for something that speeds up rendering?

auggy

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farss wrote on 11/3/2006, 9:11 PM

As far as I know will do nothing to help with Vegas.

Most of these kinds of cards hive the encoding task off to hardware, there's some very expensive ones that are very, very good for encoding mpeg-2 but they can run to $1000s

With Vegas a faster CPU is the simplest solution. With these encoder cards you're kind of stuck with them, even as CPUs run faster they still run at the same speed. The new Core 2 Duo CPUs seem to light a fire under Vegas.

UlfLaursen wrote on 11/3/2006, 9:19 PM

Hi Auggy,

I guess you mean the mpeg card that canopus has made. I am pretty sure taht it is not supported by Vegas. I remember it was made some years ago, when canopus did use Adobe Premiere together with their capturecards as an add-on to their solutions.

/Ulf

DavidMcKnight wrote on 11/3/2006, 9:51 PM

Definitely not supported or needed by Vegas. As farss said, a faster cpu is your best bet, but if the idea is to encode or render quickly so you can continue editing, and if you have another pc hanging around, you can always setup network rendering and offload the encoding job to another computer.