Best video editing setup?

[BloodyBonzai]

I am tryin to help out a friend who is into video editting. I see that the quick sync option on the sandy bridge setups is the best, but it seems that if you want to go that route the best you can do is the discrete graphics 3000. But I seem to remember an article on here not too long ago about a mobo that allowed for you to utilize the discrete graphics 3000 and a high end graphics card. Anyone know anything about this? Or can tell me what the best way to go for strictly video editting?

 

[amdfangirl]

^ We said that AMD Stream's video encoding quality was better than Nvidia CUDA, abeit still vastly inferior to the x86 codepath. We said no such thing as AMD being superior in GPU acceleration in video editing applications (they suck tbh).

 

[BloodyBonzai]

I currently have two 60GB 34nm Vertex 2 in RAID 0 and it's awesome. The onboard RAID controller is def not a bottleneck, I checked thoroughly into this setup before getting it. Are you telling me that the video editting in Vegas will not make use of the speed? Also, yes the Dell U3011 is overpriced, but I have not seen anything else on the market that compares with a 1600p 1billion+ color LCD. And yes it looks incredible, and my other LCD is a 1080p 17.6Million colors BenQ which is nothing compared to the Dell. And as far as overpriced, I would say that $1000 is a fair price for the Dell U3011 LCD when considering the prices of other displays on the market, I got mine for $1200 through a friend and most people will end up payin a couple hundred more.

 

[Guest]

Don't forget guys, if your spending that much on your monitors it's really important to partner them with a calibration device...

Spyder Pro is my weapon of choice...

BTW: I though MPE and CUDA (in CS5.x) were only used for certain visual effects (Colour correction etc..) not the final render, this I thought was almost entirely done within the confines of the CPU? Must have read the Adobe site wrong!

Recommend www.videocopilot.net site for some great tut's too..

Pete

 

[amdfangirl]

Necro.