My mobo failed a few days ago taking the graphics card with it.
I've opted for the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E Graphics Card which was on offer locally and seems like good value.
Reading Sapphire's info on the website it states:
Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
Does this mean that I should get faster renders (particularly with MPEG-2? Do I need to change some setting(s) within Vegas to take advantage of this or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Cheers
Edit: Actually, I think I can answer my own question. It states Decode acceleration and not Encode. So I guess it just gives smoother playback on the timeline?
I've opted for the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E Graphics Card which was on offer locally and seems like good value.
Reading Sapphire's info on the website it states:
Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
Does this mean that I should get faster renders (particularly with MPEG-2? Do I need to change some setting(s) within Vegas to take advantage of this or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Cheers
Edit: Actually, I think I can answer my own question. It states Decode acceleration and not Encode. So I guess it just gives smoother playback on the timeline?