Video Card Choice

[Guest]

Greetings all, my friend is putting together a new computer soon. She has asked my advice on what components to purchase. However, I am unsure of what video card to recommend. The thing is, she is less interested in gaming than in video editing, film etc...so she wants a video card that will allow her to edit video and multimedia. Normally I would have suggested something from the Geforce family, perhaps a Geforce 3 Ti500, but I'm not sure how good they are for video editing compared to say, and ATI card. Basically my question is, what video card would you recommend for her?

 

[labdog]

depending of your budget.

ATI 8500 DV included TV out, TV tuner & real time mpeg2 compression video capturing.

ATI 8500 same as the DV but video capturing without real time mpeg2 compression.
but besides a 3D engine (GPU) a little faster.
& less expensive than the 8500 DV.



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[psyclone]

The ATI cards hbave good performance as well as excellent features, you could also try and get your hands on an older "deluxe" version of an asus video card.

<b>What was that!</b>

 

[labdog]

<A HREF="http://users.capu.net/~kwelch/pp/pics/emperors-family2.jpg" target="_new">huh?</A>.



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[XT8088_640K]

I would suggest a ATI AIW 7500 which is cheaper than AIW 8500DV, but it doesn't have a DV port.

 

[XT8088_640K]

Generic 8500s don't have video capture capacity. BTW, the mpeg2 compression capacity is actually built into the graphics chip.

 

[labdog]

crap

here the <A HREF="http://www.ati.com/products/pc/aiwradeon8500/index.html" target="_new">ATI Link</A>

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[knowan]

I would recommend not using a gForce 3 card, as their video capture capability and quality is not as great as the ATI line. gForce 4 may be okay, but not a gForce 3.

In this case I would recommend the ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500. It's video capture capibility is as good as the Radeon 8500, but it's 3D games ability is lower. That shouldn't be an issue in this case.

The only reason I am recommending the all-in-wonder line over the regular line is that the all-in-wonder has the following: 1) a TV capture card (you can capture directly from cable instead of having to go through the TV or VCR)
2) Better capture software (While it is not Adobe, it's still very good)
3) That nice remote.

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