PPR CS3 Vid card and other Q's? Help!

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MagicCat

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HI all

I have two basic questions.

1.: Im editing in CS3, as well as AE CS3. I need to purchase a new video Card. Im really confused as to what to do.

I have boiled it down to an Nvidia 8800 GTS, OR a Quadro FX1500. I can buy 2 8800's and SLI them for the price of One Quadro. But maybe that is dumb logic?

Are there any distinct differences that I should be paying attention to here? I know the 8800 is a gamers card and probably does DX very good, The Quadro most likely excels at Open GL.

I also wish to be able to do Very Light duty 3d Stuff with Avid 3-D and another hot little plug-in I use all the time for 3-D titles AE called Pro-Animator. It runs pathetically slow with my current, 7600 G-Force card.


Question 2: back in the days of Premiere 5 and 6+, there used to be a function to allow you to export an Ascii .txt file, that would give you a listing of ALL your assets in a project by file name and path. There seems to be no mention of this VERY handy little feature in PPRo CS3. Is that still part of Cs3 Anymore? I cannot remember what adobe called the function itself, but it was under File/Export somewhere. We used to use it a for archiving Projects long term, so we would never lose a component, or could quickly go back and find a file by name that is missing.

Thanks Much

MagicCat

System Specs for above question. Im operating two Identical machines, VIA WinXP with SP2, Intel Quad Core, 4Gb memory, 2TB of internally striped storage, and a 10K RPM OS Drives. the Boards are Asus. Current Video Cards are Nvidia 7600GS and 8500 GT. pBoth are PCIE. One system has a PCMCIA Reader for my P2 media. No other cards inserted. Sound is VIA OnBoard audio.
 
I've got a Quadro FX1500 Graphics card in my PC, it is an awesome card, especially for lightwave, etc... BUT !!!

Software like Magic Bullet Looks, and Colorista, (which I own) is not officially supported. I had some issues, which is how I found out from redgiant that it is not officially supported. luckily a driver update later everything works now.

But in something like AE and PP, I can't see an advantage of using a Quadro card?

So if you do not do 3D give the Quadro a skip and save plenty money, also just put in one 8800 in an editing machine.

I've got Zaxwerks Invigorator PRO, and titles are also very slow in that, even with my Quadro.

- Derrick
 
HI

Thanks Derrick. I really appreciate your input more than you could know. This is a topic I have had much frustration with over the years. I have never seemed to be able to get a straight forward answer. It would be nice if someone who DOES have in depth experience in graphics cards as they pertain to the needs of todays Video Editor (and the programs the editors use like PPRo, AE, Photoshop-Illustrator, and many of the plug-ins like the ones you speak of0 (For Plug-ins, I have five staples I use constantly, 55mm, Sapphire, Magic Bullet, Knoll Light factory, and of course, Pro Animator ) to put together a site or blog, written in plain easy to understand verbage, that would explain Graphics cards. Toms hardware is Great, but the benchmark tests mean nothing to me. They also do not put Gamer Cards and Workstation cards on the same page. I have called many vendors like adobe, but they only suggest reccomended cards without any real world explination of why. For instance, Adobe PPro reccomends some pretty hefty cards for use in Premiere. However, the requirements of After Effects seem to be allot lest stringent. Just about any recent Nvidia card is acceptable? This makes no sense to me. I would think it would be just the opposite. They do not explain.

I would like to venture into 3D, but probably on a light-duty scale. Extruding Corporate logo's etc. I have gotten away with Pro-Animator and Vectored Graphics VIA Illustrator for much of this so far. Even with a fairly quick machine, I feel like talent on production day. There is allot of Hurry up and Waiting to be had. I have no clue how all the AE pro's get through projects, or creat animations for Digital juice, if this is even remotely close to what they go through.

MagicCat: David Walker
 
My 2 cents worth.

It is kind of difficult for most of us to evaluate a graphics card or know what impact on performance it has in the real world. We usually only have one card installed and not the facility , time or inclination to run lab style tests. Often we cvhange them at the same time we change other hardware.

I did do a render test some time ago when I changed cards and re-ran the test project again. I discovered significant render time advantage in the higher end card. I was using plugins (MBs etc) that recommended Nvidia GPUs on the card and they were correct.

Currently I am using a FX1700 (in a new machine)but I have no idea how it performs to other cards or whether it is overkill or otherwise. I am only concerned that it does its work...which it does.
 
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