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$2000 or less for a primarily Vegas machine, what’s best?
Super slow rendering times (24+ hours on short projects with split screen views) are absolutely killing me.
I have a good monitor already, so that cost is mitigated.
For just the tower, and $2000 as the max, what is the fastest rendering computer I can get?
I currently use a laptop with an i7 processor and 8gb of ram, and it isn’t coming close to cutting it.
I make lots of videos of four animals at once essentially for comparison purposes (livestock judging and auctions) and need something that can render much faster than my current computer.
Thanks everyone!
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What version of the software are you running? I obtained faster render times when I upgraded from Vegas Pro 8 to Vegas Pro 12. Since you already have a monitor, you can spend barely over $1100 on an Intel i7, 16gb RAM, a really nice nVidia or ATI Radeon (7850HD 2gb, for example) video card, an SSD system drive and a big fat high speed SATA6 hard drive (i’d actually get 2 and install them RAID 0). Obviously this is if you build your own and not go the store-bought way.
Lots of options, but you’d be making a mistake by not getting an SSD hard drive and 16gb RAM minimum.
Dave
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I’m running Vegas 12 now. It fixed some of the bugs and quirks of 11 that I noticed even as a very novice user, but rendering times are just so slow on my machine when I’m having multiple HD streams at once.
A side question, is there a way I could reduce the quality of the HD screens since they are only taking a fourth of the screen? I assume with a lot less data it would render faster.
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Render times can vary, based on what your render settings are. The higher the bit rate, the longer the render will take. My Ivy Bridge i5 processor, and 16gb of RAM, with high render settings (but not max settings) renders at a 1:1 ratio. So if I have an 8 minute clip on the timeline, my renders for YouTube take 8 minutes.
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I might be wrong, but I don’t believe that lowering the quality of the preview window will affect render times. My editing is quite simple, and my project settings match my video data which also matches my render outputs (1920 x 1080).
Dave
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i recently bought a pc from cyberpowerpc.com for about $1800. i used the videoguys DIY9 budget as a guide.
here’s what i got:
CyberPower GXTZ PC: Intel(R) Core™ i7-3820 Quad-Core 3.60
ASUS P9X79 Intel X79 Motherboard
32GB (4GBx8) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card
Corsair Force Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD 240GB BootDrive
850 Watts Power Supply
Pioneer BDR-207BKS 12X Blu-Ray Writer
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit)I upgraded to win8 and now have an excellent vegas pc for what i do: canon t2i mov files to mp4 for the web. ymmv…
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That Intel processor is the Sandy Bridge architecture. It certainly is a fast processor, but for video encoding/editing tests have shown that it’s actually slower than the i5 Ivy Bridge processors. You have the 2nd generation i7 processor, where the 3rd generation i7 processors are the Ivy Bridge. More expensive but the most powerful out there except for the latest Xeon units.
Dave
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I meant lower quality as in the actual video file when it is being rendered in split screen. Whenever I render, my preview window is automatically turned to “best”.
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