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Significant improvements in render time if upgrading from Intel Core i7 2600k?
Hi all,
I have been using Sony Vegas Pro 11 (build683/x64) on my PC which is using the Intel Core i7 2600k CPU for about 2 years now, most of my projects are around 5 minutes taking an hour or so to render which I have become used to due to the large amount of effects that I use (CPU parking disabled, would have took twice the time originally), GPU acceleration was disabled because there were frequent glitches in renders.I usually use AVCHD, Cedocida DV and Lagarith as sources and render out to Sony DV and Sony MXF. During rendering, CPU usage averages around 30% with all threads being used though it could vary to 90%, disk I/O around 15% highest activity time.
Would anyone have advice on whether upgrading from said CPU would improve Vegas 11’s render performace by about 20%? What about Vegas 12? Also, if there is a suitable CPU upgrade, would GPU acceleration matter?
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“whether upgrading from said CPU would improve Vegas 11’s render performace by about 20%?”
No,it wont.
Steve Rhoden
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Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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Hi Steve,
did you say something with regards to this in a previous thread about that Vegas has reached its limit? I was wondering if there were speed differences between Vegas 11 and 12 as well.RickAVC
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Hi Rick,
Steve’s advice is totally correct with SVP 11. I have noticed shorter rendering times with SVP12 vs. SVP 11 on the same i7 workstation. (I sometimes re-render old projects with the same version of Vegas as the original .veg file) For me SVP12 does render most(not all) projects faster, but it really depends on the original camera codec, plugins/effects, and output format used. You seem to be using a good amount of plug ins etc. If you want to definitely get faster renders I would leave your current setup as is and get a new 4th gen i7 with the SVP 12 upgrade and an SSD drive. Swapping the cpu alone can work, but for the extra $400-500 a new machine would ensure that you are leaving any system bottlenecks behind.Colin Mendez Morris
ArsMusica
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Hi Colin,
I had the thought of upgrading the entire system considering the dated hardware I’m using, I’ll have a look at Vegas 12 to see how things go there, just want to see on the forum to see what hardware works best for Vegas, thanks for your advice,EDIT: I forgot to mention that I’ll be doing more projects in 32bit(video levels) pixel format due to visible banding in 8bit, always have used 8bit for projects but the banding is very distracting on renders when viewed on destination devices.
RickAVC
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