Video Card In Movie Edit Pro

prdirector10 wrote on 6/25/2012, 11:58 AM

Does anyone know if Movie Edit Pro uses the video card for rendering video in Movie Edit Pro? 

I've looked on the forums but the answers seem a bit vague. 

If it is not used for rendering, what is the video card used for? The recommended hardware suggests some powerful video cards like the nvidia GTX 460.

I plan on using an nvidia GTX 460.

Thanks,

Regis

 

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Scenestealer wrote on 6/26/2012, 10:07 PM

Hi Regis

I have a GTX 460 and it works well with MEP.

MEP uses the GPU on the card for accelerated rendering of MPEG4 H264 only,during export. This can decrease export time considerably (depending on your system) by parallel processing using the CUDA cores on the GPU.

Beyond that it is used to accelerate preview of a lot of the std. video effects / transitions esp. 3D and adjustments like brightness/ contrast / colour correction etc.

However it does not use a huge amount of the GPU resources so it is only worth buying a mid range card like the 460 with a minimum of 1 GB memory and a 256Bit memory Bus width.

 

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