| This might surprise you but I'd suggest an NVIDIA GTX 285 if you are going for a Mac compatible card. It sounds like you want to move into the Davinci world and if you do this is the best card on a Mac. They can be a little hard to find but we managed to pick up a couple of the Mac versions of these cards on ebay. I think we paid about $500 per card.
We run several Davinci Resolve systems here and the GTX 285 is faster than the Quadro 4000, even though its a newer and supposedly faster card. I purchased the 4000 thinking I'd up my performance and soon realized my real time performance was reduced in Resolve, less nodes of correction with the 4000 and went back to the 285.
You can install the Lite version of Resolve for free. It is fully functioning unless you decide you want to work at resolutions beyond HD for renders out. Otherwise Resolve is a fully functioning application, which still blows me away. You can contact me off the list if you need any further information. We have a lot of experience with Resolve systems.
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Thanks, Bruce.
Any suggestions for a CUDA card? I'm running Snow Leopard in a MacPro3,1 Tower. I'm not crazy about upgrading to Mountain Lion as I still use FCP and Color. Color breaks with 10.7 and above, I believe. I've been wanting to move to Da Vinci but the $1,000 is a hurdle I can't jump over right now. Anyway, it's late, been working all day and I'm losing my mind.
Thanks also to Brian Klein for the tip about the high quality check box.
Jonathan
On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Bruce Wainer wrote: I don't know the names of the algorithms off the top of my head, but here's the order of scaling quality: After Effects, regardless of hardware, is lowest Premiere Pro without a CUDA-enabled video card (so running in software only mode) Premiere Pro with a suitable CUDA card, either directly supported or manually added to the PP list
So use Premiere Pro, but you'll get better quality (and more speed) by adding a new(ish) video card.
According to what I've read on the list, scaling footage up in Premiere is better than scaling in AE or FCP. Is the quality dependent on the graphics card? Or is it software-based? For the job I'm working on now, speed isn't important – quality is paramount, and my graphics card is o l d . . . .
Many thanks in advance.
Jonathan
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