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Best render settings for 5-15 and 20-35 minute long videos?
Hello for two years now I’ve been watching topics, and countless videos on how to speed up your videos for Youtube. I’m mainly looking for render settings for 20-35 minute long videos. But 5-15 minutes would also be great to. Wouldn’t mind to stay at 1080p for 5-15 minute settings. But if I can cut my render speed by minutes for 30 minute videos I’ll go 720p. I’m using Sony Vegas 12 Pro.
Computer specs: I think my Processor is outdated when my computer was built in 2008.
Windows 7 64Bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad @2.33GHz
RAM: 4GB
Radeon AMD HD 6450I have tried
“MainConcept AVC/AAC .mp4”
“Quicktime”
“Sony AVC/MVC .mp4”
“Windows Media Player Video 11 .WMV”Even multiple tries within the preferences for “Dynamic RAM Preview max”, and “number of rendering threads”. I have also tried Cuda for rendering times, and seems to make it worst for render speeds.
Yet all these tries has still equaled close to 2 to 3 hours to render out a 20-35 minute video.
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I’m looking to see if there is better settings out there. Because all of these changes I’ve done to my Sony Vegas. I’m lost to what has helped me, and what really didn’t. I really want to default everything to start from scratch to see what experts say, and not average “kids” that makes videos on Youtube describing this stuff.
So any help would be nice. =)
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Well, upgrading to the most powerful Ivy Bridge i7 cpu and Z77 motherboard chipset(or Intel Xeon for ultimate performance) will help, and probably an increase in RAM to at least 16gb. How much will it help? Probably impossible to tell. You must weigh the cost/benefit, obviously. If you do this for a living, then it’s probably worth the money to upgrade. Your render times are affected by other variables, like effects. For example, I get a 1:1 render ration (8 minute video takes 8 minutes to render), but this is with nothing fancy done to the events on the timeline, and it’s from an Ivy Bridge i5 cpu.
If your incredibly long render times are affecting your business (or ability to do thereof), then definitely buy the most powerful hardware you can. If it’s not THAT important, then maybe just upgrade the cpu & motherboard and start from there.
Hope this helps,
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I agree with Dave. Your CPU is quite old. I had a Core 2 Quad until last year when I upgraded to a Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz with Six Cores and 12 threads. My render times improved significantly. Here are my complete hex core computer specs.
I am also getting a significant boost from using the ManConcept AVC encoder with my NVIDIA Quadro 4000 video card using CUDA. The MainConcept encoder seems to do faster GPU renders than the Sony one. Note: when I bought my Quadro 4000 it said that it required a Core i7 so adding a powerful GPU to your old Core 2 Quad might not show any improvement because you CPU can’t feed your GPU fast enough.
~jr
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Hmm didn’t get a email this time from you guys which is odd. But anyways
Yea I figured it might be outdated due to new hardware coming out very often. I lost track of all this new stuff long time ago haha. I also don’t do this for a living but I do this on my off time. This is my main, and only computer I got. I’m on this around 10-14 hours a day since I work at home.
Dave@ I decided to just look up the CPU/Motherboard you’ve said which is the (Ivy Bridge i7 cpu) and (Z77 motherboard chipset). If I can save up now I think I could get them around Christmas IF lucky. Also looked at 16GB of ram from Newegg.com. Would it matter if I upped it up to 32GB of ram? Would there be a big difference due to render threads?
Reason why I’m asking this because if I’m going to upgrade. I want this to be beneficial for Video rendering, and my other side projects with Cinema 4D. If I do upgrade these 3 components with the stuff I already got on my computer. Then I can finally make my dream videos with 3D animation. Which has been holding me off for 3 years because of the outdated computer.
Like this picture down below took close to 28 minutes to render out in Cinema 4D. If it took that long to render out just one frame. Then rendering 1000 frame scene (About 5 second clip) would just be horrible.
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I don’t think you’ll get any quicker render times by having 32gb RAM vs. 16gb. However, with the price of memory nowadays, if the budget permits then having extra RAM isn’t going to hurt. If you’re going to buy a new motherboard, i’d recommend buying one that has at least two 6gb/s SATA ports on it: one port for your SSD system drive, the other port for a large ‘regular’ hard drive.
Dave
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Hmm I see. Like I’d said I haven’t been keeping track at all with this new tech, and mostly forgot what most of this even means. Don’t want to try to mix parts together then find out they don’t work. I might go with that motherboard, and processor. Unless new products come out before I get to my budget which at this time it doesn’t matter. Now for 16GB of ram what are you using on your computer? Because my computer has rejected 3 different manufacturers since 2008. I know that will change with these new parts. But it also costed me before.
Also to double check are these the correct parts right? Because I want to put these in my bookmarks folder to make sure I’m not buying the wrong items.
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821&nm_mc=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r&cm_mmc=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r-_-Motherboards+-+Intel-_-ASUS-_-13131821Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501 -
[Dave Osbun] “I don’t think you’ll get any quicker render times by having 32gb RAM vs. 16gb. However, with the price of memory nowadays, if the budget permits then having extra RAM isn’t going to hurt.”
The question is “will it be seen?”. Emil only said that they have Windows 7 64bit but not what edition. I’m using Windows 7 64bit Home Edition which maxes out at 16GB. You need to have at least Windows 7 64GB Professional Edition in order to use more memory than that. So only buy 32GB of memory if your OS will use it.
~jr
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[Emil Straher] “Hmm I see. Like I’d said I haven’t been keeping track at all with this new tech, and mostly forgot what most of this even means. Don’t want to try to mix parts together then find out they don’t work.”
Then I would strongly recommend follow a build like VideoGuys DIY9 where someone else who does keep up on all of this is carefully matching parts that work. As you probably know, building your own computer that is stable is not easy. Lots of parts that should work together on paper don’t. It sounds like you already know that from what you’ve been asking but it bears repeating.
[Emil Straher] “Because my computer has rejected 3 different manufacturers since 2008.”
Exactly my point. When you are ready to buy, check what configurations VideoGuys has available and only buy those parts with no substitutes. They always give several choices based on your budget which is why I like recommending their build specs. I built my workstation from their specs and it’s rock solid and performs great.
~jr
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Skimmed through the site so I’ll bookmark it for later. As for which Windows 7 I’m using I have the Home Premium edition 64Bit.
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[Emil Straher] “As for which Windows 7 I’m using I have the Home Premium edition 64Bit.”
That means you can’t use more than 16GB of memory so don’t bother buying more than that unless you also plan to upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit Professional edition.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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