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  New Sony Vegas HD studio Platinum 10 uses GPU acceleration

  Posted by Fridrikur Ellefsen on June 9, 2010 at 2:09 pm

  The new updated Sony Vegas HD studio Platinum 10 uses GPU for some rendering. Listed in the tech. spec.:
  New! Support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC plug-in.
  Most likely Vegas Pro will have this feature as well. Unfortunately the graphic card on my stat. computer is not that powerfull to take advantage of the GPU features.
  What benefits do you guys think this new feature has for rendering times?

  Karl Bernard replied 15 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mokies Miano

  July 1, 2010 at 5:51 pm

  I’ll answer this just with my experience and little knowledge.

  I think it applies on both nVidia CUDA & ATi Stream.

  With my experience with nVidia (GTX260) (Badaboom Video Converter), it converts faster than ordinary conversion done by CPU, about 40% without losing video quality.

  As for Vegas, maybe if you render a video (depending on the plug-ins you applied) through GPU, it might cut rendering times a bit (from 1hr down to 35-50mins)

  That’s all I know.
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  Karl Bernard

  July 2, 2010 at 7:22 pm

  Unfortunately, this new capability appears to be only for CUDA technology:
  https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/news/ShowRelease.asp?ReleaseID=734&CatID=0

  “GPU-accelerated AVC Rendering: Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum can now use the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in equipped computers to improve AVC rendering performance and speed, which allows final projects to be published faster than ever before. Users with a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA® video card are able to encode to the Sony AVC format using GPU-accelerated rendering.”

  I already have an ATI card that I like and don’t want to get rid of – if the slots are available, can I install an Nvidia card and just use it for encoding?

  Karl Bernard

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