Seeking PC & Video Card Advice ...

Kevin Mc wrote on 3/31/2008, 8:28 PM

I'm using Vegas Pro 8 and looking at getting a new computer. The system I'm looking at has "Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB 16X PCI Express" cards.

See here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229013

* Is there any advantage to using dual video cards for the purpose of video editing and rendering?
* Would love to hear some thoughts about the computer I'm looking at (see link above).

Thanks!

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/31/2008, 9:24 PM

> Is there any advantage to using dual video cards for the purpose of video editing and rendering?

If you chain them together so that they act as one card, then there is no real advantage. Some plug-ins like Magic Bullet might render faster but Vegas does not use the GPU's for anything.

If you keep them separate and need more than 2 displays then you can us the second card. The typical scenario would be to have Vegas spread across a dual display with the timeline on one and scopes, FX, media bins on the other. Then use a third display for fullscreen video preview.

~jr

Steve Mann wrote on 4/1/2008, 11:40 AM

If you try editing with a pair of 24-inch LCD monitors, you'll never want to go back to one monitor.

Kevin Mc wrote on 4/1/2008, 2:38 PM

Thanks for the good words ... one more question ... is there any advantage to having these daisy chained cards when it comes to the preview window? Currently I can only preview in Draft mode. Anything higher and the video is jumpy. Would these two cards hold any advantage in this scenario?