video editing times

[Bud]

Im converting some video to mpeg and its taking some time would overclocking my video card help, or would a faster video card help just curious. I have a 9800pro, so if i went to a x800pro/6800gt it would be faster right? also would going from amd xp to amd64 help?

[Black Hawk]

Video editing is cpu, ram and hdd intensive. I don't think the video card does much.

[RWB]

The card does nothing! Except display, import, etc... ;) You wouldn't know the difference between an old TNT2 and an X800 :p

Of course, there are some cards you can buy that DO speed the process up, but the software has to allow it I beleive. I saw a post by MediaMan a while back in one of my threads in this forum with a card that he used and reviewed, the thing was a beast and was purely amazing. Might wanna look that up if your interested.

[primesuspect]

You want a hardware encoder. As the others have said, the video card has absolutely nothing to do with encoding.

You're talking about something like the Matrox RT.X10 that would be a hardware encoder as well as a display device.

[primesuspect]

Here is MediaMan's review (http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=161) of that card. :)

[MediaMan]

Video is 2D. Ancient 8MB ATI Rage Pros can handle the display needs of a non linear editor.

Overclocking will not affect the big picture very much. It may help in the speed of rendering transitions but the key improvements you can make are:

1) A real time card such as the RTX10 or above.
2) Digitize video media files to a separate RAID 0 drive. Separate from the program OS drive.
3) Minimum of 1 GB of RAM.

Dual processors have the biggest impact when it comes to rendering transitions or encoding/translating to different formats such as AVI to QT or bouncing to DVD content.

A mid-range dual monitor card will help in the area of redraw but beware. A lot of dual monitor cards or dual monitor capable share the same RAMDAC thus you should prioritize which monitor gets your video window. Matrox (P650 and 750 and Parhelia) are better suited to NLE setups as they have dual RAMDACS thus...like sort of a dual processor...the task is shared and either monitor window can perform equally for redraw and refresh.

The 3D GPU side of a video card is barely touched in NLE.

[Thrax]

Picking the right mpeg2 encoder ALSO helps.

Adobe is slow, TMPGEnc is hideously slow, ulead is slow, etc. The fastest one in existence for general consumption is CinemaCraftEncoder, but it's also $1200 if I remember rightly. It also requires a knowledge of the AVISynth scripting language in order to maximize its potential.

[Dexter]

Cinemacraft's SP version is about $1900 US, but it is desinged to be an OEM product for people designing editing or encoding software packages.

The basic (consumer) version of Cinemacraft is about $58 US. It allows encoding from AVI, Quicktime, DV, and still image sequences, and works as a plug-in to Adobe Premiere.

If you just want AVI to MPEG, I use Vitec's MPEG Maker-2 ($99 US.)

However, I also have a full Non-linear editing suite ay my disposal, with faster than realtime transcoding of video formats (including to and from MPEG), and I also have at my office a full stand-alone MPEG encoder with video-tape machine control and batch encoding features. So I rarely use the AVI to MPEG tool, but it is very good, very fast, and produces professional high quality MPEG clips.

Dexter...

[Bud]

i used TMPGEnc and it did to a mpeg single file, i need a way to burn it to dvds so it can be seen by a standard dvd player. How do i do that (sry if a noob ques) like .vob files?

[Thrax]

TMPGEnc DVD Author is good.

Stay away from Ulead. It always demands you reencode even if your video is compliant.

[Bud]

thanks thrax that app work awesome saved me some grief

[Thrax]

:thumbsup:

It isn't as robust as I would like it at times, but it sure gets the job done.