Wich is the best Video Card for Vegas 6

PabloDaniel wrote on 1/9/2006, 8:50 AM
I use a canopus avdc-100 with Vegas 6 but when i get out video for a normal TV or video proyector the video is slow, and i can´t sync audio, i think i need a video card that process the video information and leave my computer do other things, any one has a good video card taht works fine, no mather cost, its for a profesional 5.1 studio that makes audio for film.

My computer its a Pentium IV HT tech, 3.6, 1 GB Ram

Thanks

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/9/2006, 10:21 AM
If you are outputting your video via firewire through the ADVC-100 then your video card has nothing to do with it. I assume you may be using some CPU intensive effects (i.e., color correcting, curvers, etc.) and your PC is not able to play the video back in real-time. Since you already have a fairly powerful processor, I’m not sure what else you can do. Vegas will not take advantage of your video card so buying a new one won’t make the preview any faster. Your next option is to get a dual-core or dual processor PC. Right now AMD is faster than Intel in that regard.

If you just need to see how a section of the video looks in real-time you can use the RAM render. This only works for small section but will give you an idea of what the final render will look like.

~jr
Coursedesign wrote on 1/9/2006, 10:42 AM
What do you mean by "can't sync audio"?

Vegas is very good at keeping audio synced even on PCs that run at a fraction of your CPU speed.

If you select one of the Auto settings for the preview window, you should be able to sync audio nicely even if you have some heavier effects, especially with a 3.6 GHz P4.

There are some things to know about this though. For starters you need to get your audio from your PC, not from the Canopus box.

I'm wondering if this is the main cause of your problem?

PabloDaniel wrote on 1/9/2006, 1:04 PM
Of course i get the audio out of my PC i use a profesional PCI card (echo systems) i dont edit video with vegas i only use a quick time video archive and then design all the audio, mix music, voices, special effects, but the video signal fells like you lost frames so i cant sync if i use a TV
Harold Brown wrote on 1/9/2006, 5:52 PM
As mentioned you have some other technical problem if you are outputting through firewire to a TV using Vegas and there are no effects applied to your video. I am not sure why you would output to a TV for that anyway unless you are outputing to a recording device like a VCR. Of course you probably already know that.
Coursedesign wrote on 1/9/2006, 6:29 PM
So you are putting a Quicktime file on Vegas' timeline and play it back over Canopus together with your sound mixes?

What is the setting of your preview window? Best, Good, etc.? Auto or Full?

If Vegas runs out of CPU, it will simply throttle the frame rate down, by essentially bypassing frames. What frame rate is the preview window showing that you are getting?

Which video format do you have in your Quicktime file? Quicktime is just a wrapper, it can contain just about anything from the simplest low-res simple format file to a high definition MPEG-4 that requires more CPU.