How to Buy a Graphics Card for Video Editing

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris Bryce from Superservice.com. Today we're going to talk about how to buy a graphics card for video editing. Now the key to video editing is making sure that you have the right combination of video in as well as video out. And if you're looking at a video card and you already have a card that will actually capture the video, then you need to make sure that the video card you're looking at is compatible with the card that you already have to bring a video in.The best way really to accomplish this is to replace both your video card and the card that's bringing the video in, with an all in one card. This type of card would have the video in capability as well as video out, that would allow you to edit and make sure that you're going to be completely compatible with the video you bring in and the video you're sending out. Once you've edited your video you can export things in a lot of different ways. So you're going to also want to look at what capabilities the card has as far as output. There's video cards out there that have HDMI output, they have S video output, they'll have RCA even output, and sometimes they'll have dual monitor output. If you need those features, you're going to make sure that you need to look at the products that you're buying to make sure that they have the features that you're actually looking for. As far as the dual monitor out feature, you're going to want to make sure that the type of monitor you're using is the type of connector that is on that dual monitor. Some video cards when they say they're dual monitor are actually not. There's only one monitor connection, and then they'll have for instance an S video or an HDMI output, and consider that as a second monitor. There's other video cards out there though that if you really pay attention to them, they'll actually have two separate monitor connections as well as still having those S video and HDMI outputs. So just be careful about what you're looking for, assess your needs, and then go from there."