Originally Posted by jlacck So let me get this straight: Rendering has to be done for any effect or edit that you want to add to a video file? If that's the case, I can't imagine having to constantly render and unrender a file if I don't like how the edits look. |
There's no such things as 'unrender' as far as I know. The point is that the more effects you pile onto your original footage the more work your editing s/w has to do to build your output for when you want to review it. This is the render. For light editing, i.e. straight cutes here and there, a few simple transitions and maybe a pip effect or two then there will typically be little to no rendering required. But add a page curl, a colour replace effect and wrap the whole thing around a cylinder floating around the screen then you will have to render the clip before you can see what it looks like. A necessary evil I'm afraid. I suggest you try a few editing suites and play with each one and get a feel for which one suits you best for the type of editing you will typically do.
I've been hearing a lot mixed reviews about the Matrox. |
As I said, it has both it's fans and it's antagonists. But be aware that it's usually the few poeple suffering problems that are the ones posting on forum boards. You're only hearing the bad stories, not the good ones. But I will say, before I get flamed on this again, that the h/w design for the Matrox card is a few years old now and the vibes coming through are that poeple have more and more problems integrating it into 'modern' systems. I've had zero problems with mine however.
However, there's got to something out there that can offer the same feature set but with more userfriendliness. Are there any other cards on the market that you are aware of that offers render free editing? |
Dunno. I stopped looking when I saw and tested the Matrox card.