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Video Cards
Can anyone recommend a good 8x AGP video card that's not super expensive for a new HD Accel system I'm putting together? I'm thinking about a P4C800-E Deluxe mobo, Thanks!
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Re: Video Cards
If you want to be able to do A/V post work without having to get additional hardware and software expansions you could get the Matrox Parhelia or P750 and have a dual video out + TV out for Quicktime preview at full resolution, I have the P750 and after some trial and error with the settings it's working fine, definitely great quality and sync is spot on, check it out.
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Re: Video Cards
gerax,
What are you doing that I'm not. I can get the quicktime movie to play out the tv out of my matrox but it looks really bad. Pixals are really big. If I play the same movie out with a directx app like windows media player, the tv output is crystle clear and amazing looking. Do you have any idea what your woing different than me. This is just about my only problem with this solution. Thanks for your time, Peace, Brandon
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Brandon Howlett Vibe Audio Post, Inc. Re-recording Mixer Custom Build CPU, HDX 1, Omni, 192 I/O Digital S6 M10 24 fader Satellite Mac Pro, HDNative, 192 I/0 Black Magic HD Extreme |
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Re: Video Cards
Try posting your settings here (Power desk, QT version and settings, PT version...) and I'll match those to mine and see if something different comes up. Only thing I know, after several days of head banging against the wall this setup is working great for me (also thanx to some other fellas here on the DUC like Karel Bata and Froyo).
Hope this helps L.G. |
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Re: Video Cards
If you get an ATI All-in-Wonder 9600XT, you can have all kinds of VIVO options, a free version of Pinnacle, as well as a TV and FM tuner and dual monitor support. Check Newegg, they can be had for about $190 (it's not that much really, when you compare it to the price you paid for your HD Accel system.
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Re: Video Cards
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DVDMax settings Use DVDMax is checked Under Aspect Ratio Preserve Aspect Ratio is checked Under TV Aspect Ration 4:3 is checked Under Aspect Ratio Detection Method Detect Based on Video Source Size is checked Under Advanced Use Field Based Scaling is checked Quicktime version is 6.3 Quicktime settings Video Settings Options is checked Under options the first three options are checked which are Enable DCI, Enable DirectDraw, Enable DiractDraw Acceleration And Enable DirctDraw on Secondary Monitors is not checked I use PT LE 6.1.1 Thanks for all the help. Peace, Brandon
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Brandon Howlett Vibe Audio Post, Inc. Re-recording Mixer Custom Build CPU, HDX 1, Omni, 192 I/O Digital S6 M10 24 fader Satellite Mac Pro, HDNative, 192 I/0 Black Magic HD Extreme |
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Re: Video Cards
Here's mine:
DirectX 8.1 as standard in WinXPSP1, don't upgrade. QT6.3: Do the "full or recomended" installation not minimal. QT settings, Video: safe option won't do, check everything else exept DirectDraw on secondary monitor. Also under connection, check "allow multiple streams". Matrox Powerdesk: Multi-Display setup: 2displays, streched mode+ 1 feature display Video Playback settings: Use video overlay-checked Use PureVideo/DVDMax-checked Assist video motion compensation-unchecked PureVideo/DVDMax settings: Preserve aspect ratio, video window, 4:3 Uncheck all advanced settings (preserve source cropping etc.) Help> Troubleshooting Settings: check the first two. Not all of these make a difference, just try them. VERY IMPORTANT is the VIDEO CODEC you use: Try QT DV first. NOT all codecs work for full screen TVout, .AVI with Sorensen and Cinepak compression codecs works well too. There are a few things that are set different, so you may as well want to try changing those, but I cannot guarantee they will work. Having the system set this way I'm capable of full resolution (and of good quality) video from the two outs (video and S-video) to whatever device I want, for the moment it's a TV set, I'll expand that in the future to a plasma screen or LCD projector, but the image quality is gerat and dead on sync. Hope this helps. L.G. |
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Re: Video Cards
Hi Gerax,
Ok I got this to work fairly well, but here is what I found. When you have a Protools file up you can not change the video file. in fact I found you need to close Protools open the Matrox control Panel and change a setting. Only then will it release the video card and allow youto open a new file. Is this correct or did I do something wrong? PT 6.4 XP ASUS board 40 Gig system drive 200 Gig File drive 1 Gig RAM Matrox Parhelia two 21" Dell VGA and a Sony PVM |
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Re: Video Cards
Gerax,
Thanks for the help. I'm still getting about the same results (I can get the video to play out the TV out but it just looks bad). Are you telling me that if you play the same DV video in a DirectDraw application it doesn't look cleaner?? Peace, Brandon
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Re: Video Cards
Guys
I'm not sure, all I can say is that the setup works fine, even though I didn't understand this issue about changing the video file: do you mean that if you want to import another video clip in the open PT session the Powerdesk is not going to let you do it? I'll try it asap and post back. Bandon Not sure about that, but it look the same to me, both in direct draw (like Media Player) and from within PT, there may be a very slight difference in quality (if any), but I haven't noticed it, and it would be nothing that could prevent me from doing sync work. Plus the director of the last feature I worked on complimented me for the quality of the picture, rather good, he said, for a non video workstation...good enough for him... Hope this helps guys, I'm sorry I cannot get more in depth but I'm by no means a video expert, I just spent some time teweaking it (with some help from Karel and Froyo) untill it worked, and to justify the expense for a triple head card. l.g. |
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