Final Cut and RT rendering cards
Within the next couple of months i am probably going to purchase a new mac to do video editing, and while i was looking around the internet i saw real time rendering cards like the matrox rt mac, dvrapotor ect...
I also need to get something for analog - firewire conversion or something like that, and was looking at the canopous advc100. I odn't really want to spend a lot of money (sub $500 preferably around $300)
I was wondering two things, are the real time rendering cards worth it, and if so which ones are good. The other question is, should i spend the money on a firewire analog converter or should i get a pci card that does it?
It would be really great if someone knows of a card that does both analog input/output and real time rendering.
I also need to get something for analog - firewire conversion or something like that, and was looking at the canopous advc100. I odn't really want to spend a lot of money (sub $500 preferably around $300)
I was wondering two things, are the real time rendering cards worth it, and if so which ones are good. The other question is, should i spend the money on a firewire analog converter or should i get a pci card that does it?
It would be really great if someone knows of a card that does both analog input/output and real time rendering.
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<strong>Within the next couple of months i am probably going to purchase a new mac to do video editing, and while i was looking around the internet i saw real time rendering cards like the matrox rt mac, dvrapotor ect...
I also need to get something for analog - firewire conversion or something like that, and was looking at the canopous advc100. I odn't really want to spend a lot of money (sub $500 preferably around $300)
I was wondering two things, are the real time rendering cards worth it, and if so which ones are good. The other question is, should i spend the money on a firewire analog converter or should i get a pci card that does it?
It would be really great if someone knows of a card that does both analog input/output and real time rendering.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It depends on how much real-time editing you want to do... FC3 can do real-time editing with 2 layers + a title layer on a 500Mhz G4 and the faster your Mac is the more real-time layers you can edit, without having to wait for them to be rendered...
I would save the money you would spend on an RT card, and get the fastest Mac I could afford and add a Formac AV-DV converter for $399 for those analog sources.
<a href="http://www.formac.com/html/shopformac.html?cid=shop_products_studio"; target="_blank">Formac </a>
Hope this helps.
Blizaine