Video board

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Carlos_E._Martinez

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I am starting to assemble a new PC based editing system, and I am not sure about the NLE program.

Vegas seems interesting because they should have whole support for HDV very soon.

What video board should I get or which will not work with it?

PC will be Pentium, but I don't think that should be an issue with Vegas.


Carlos
 
Re: Video board

The video card is irrelevant. Vegas doesn't use it. But I'd suggest dual-monitor support, because Vegas is optimized for that.

Vegas now fully supports HDV, with version 5.0d.

Vegas will run on any PC you assemble.
 
Re: Video board

[quote author=David Jimerson link=board=Vegas;num=1106913290;start=0#1 date=01/28/05 at 05:11:00]The video card is irrelevant.  Vegas doesn't use it.  But I'd suggest dual-monitor support, because Vegas is optimized for that.

Vegas now fully supports HDV, with version 5.0d.

Vegas will run on any PC you assemble.

[/quote]

Irrelevant it is not. I guess you mean any board should work with it with no conflicts. That's very good.

Using a dual output card is essential with any NLE program, to have the control screen on one monitor and the video on the other.

In my case I am planning to use a 17" CRT for the program and a 20" Dell LCD for the video images.
 
Re: Video board

It’s irrelevant to the NLE except for the dual-monitor capability. Few NLEs use the video card for anything other than display, and Vegas definitely doesn’t.

Having a dual display is useful for having your timeline on one monitor and your tools on another – or in any case, spreading out your tools in a convenient and efficient way for your workflow.

But you don’t want to use a computer monitor as your video display – you want to use a TV or production monitor for that. Why? Because the computer monitor displays what the video looks like on a computer, not on a TV, and you want to do your color correction, titling, etc., on the kind of monitor that will be the primary viewing for your video. A computer monitor is capable of displaying much, much, much higher resolution and millions more colors than a TV, so you want to be sure that what you do will look good on a TV (or a production monitor). A computer monitor, particularly an LCD, is not suitable for this purpose.
 
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