On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:58:50PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Shell" > Subject: Re: Computer Problems > > > > Speaking of which, what video cards do you folks favor? I need to > > put together a Windows box for video editing, so I know I need a fast > > processor and plenty of RAM, but I know zip about video cards. Oh, > > and I need to build this super cheap, too. > > I'll second the vote for Matrox. Noritsu uses them in their printer > workstations. > The NVidea ones seem to do allright for a lower priced card. > > William Robb
The latest generation of nVidia cards do a little more than "allright". These things make dual-core or quad-core processors look like antiques. They have 128 floating-point processors on the chip, together with all sorts of switches, buses, interconnects, etc. And you can even write your own programs to make use of those processors, if you are brave enough. There's enough processing power there to perform a 36 by 36 filter kernel (such as the best quality sampling in PT assembler) at HDTV rates - 2MP at 60Hz. To perform Bayer interpolation, auto levels, etc. on a 10MP RAW image would take at most a few milliseconds (or, more practically, allow far more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms than the fairly limited ones being used today). They even have native sRGB support built in to the hardware. I suspect we'll see a future version of Lightroom that implements the processing pipe as a GPGPU instruction stream, and will go directly from your RAW images to the final output at real-time speeds. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
