I work with video from a couple of years but now I'm thinking of buying a new computer to edit and have this doubt: where's the render made on the processor or on the graphic card, because I am thinking about getting an expensive video card, but I'm questioning if it is useful or not.

Thank you very much!

Depends on the NLE. After Effects will use both, I believe. Premiere, as far as I know, will use CPU. All renders to a spot on a hard disk somewhere you designate.

W/rare exception the CPU will take the brunt, if not the entire load, of rendering footage.


-Andrew

Thanks Marco and Andrew.

If anyone knows about Sony Vegas and Combustion, it would help me a lot, but I guess the CPU is the 'truck' hehehe.