advice needed 60fps video

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome Joe. I’m glad I can put all this stuff crowding my head to good use. lol 😀

~jr

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[Joe Tavola]

Hey John sorry to rehash this topic… But now that it’s Boxing Day and sales are out thought I’d get some more clarification on video cards. What exactly or where would I notice adifference in editing with using a discrete video card vs the integrated one? Is it previews? Timeline editing? Adding effects?

[John Rofrano]

[Joe Tavola] “I’d get some more clarification on video cards. What exactly or where would I notice adifference in editing with using a discrete video card vs the integrated one? Is it previews? Timeline editing? Adding effects?”

All of the above. GPU acceleration is used to decode the source video for timeline playback, for processing plug-ins that support GPU and for rendering. All of this improves preview speed and rendering speed.

~jr

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[Joe Tavola]

And the difference is very noticeable from a Radeon R9 card vs 4600HD right?

[John Rofrano]

[Joe Tavola] “And the difference is very noticeable from a Radeon R9 card vs 4600HD right?”

I’ve never used a PC that had an Intel HD 4600 GPU so it’s hard for me to say personally. I can say that GPU acceleration is very noticeable with and without the GPU turned on. I don’t know how well an Intel HD 4600 performs with Vegas Pro. I did a little searching for comparisons and benchmarks and it looks like the Radeon R9 280x is 600% faster and the Radeon R9 270x is 430% faster than the Intel HD 4600. I’m guessing that’s going to make a very noticeable difference in Vegas Pro. 😉

~jr

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[Joe Tavola]

Do those cards still exists? Seems like my choices are R9 380 or 370 OR R7 370.

Those are in the 200-300 budget I wanna spend on the video card. Anyone one of those models standout for Vegas in particular? 2Gb vs 4Gb matter much?

[John Rofrano]

[Joe Tavola] “Do those cards still exists? Seems like my choices are R9 380 or 370 OR R7 370. “

Yea, where are you looking? There are plenty of Radeon R9 2xx Series cards available (newegg.com, amazon.com, etc.).

[Joe Tavola] “Anyone one of those models standout for Vegas in particular?”

I haven’t heard much feedback on the 300 series yet. The Radeon R9 290x and 295x are the cards everyone seems to like with Vegas Pro. The 280x series are cheaper and closer to my Radeon HD 7950 which is an older card that supports my Mac Pro tower.

[Joe Tavola] “2Gb vs 4Gb matter much?”

If you are working with 4K I would get the 4GB. Otherwise is doesn’t matter. 2GB is fine.

~jr

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[Joe Tavola]

My local shop site is where I usually stick to. Might have to try newegg or do a little more research on these 300 series cards. Price wise they seem to be same, just don’t know how the performance will be. Thanks again I’ll definitely go with a discrete card just don’t know which.

[John Rofrano]

Just ask your local shop which 300 series card matches the 200 series card that you want. I agree it makes better sense to buy the 300 series cards because they are newer. I just don’t know which one maps to what 200 series card. It shouldn’t be too difficult to figure this out.

~jr

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[Aaron Star]

EBay a HD7970-ghz would be a better buy than a 270x,280x, probably most non 390x cards. This based mainly on specs and how they appear to OpenCL, which is how vegas uses the GPU for assistance.

I recommend Sony AVC over Main Concept. Main Concept offers very little over Sony’s AVC encoder. Sony’s encoder will use the GPU as needed for calculations that can use the GPU. MC encoder does things different with the GPU, and there are other posts that talk about the artifacts that GPU encoding can be added to your image. A GPU that supports MC encoder is a very dated mind set. Improving your systems overall compute ability via CPU and in kind with a high GFLOP GPU.

In a very technical way, the XT or “X” series AMD GPUs have an edge over non X GPUs. The X series GPUs have max compute units for the design in the way they appear to OpenCL. More compute units on the GPU generally means greater OpenCL performance.

Converting the IPhone footage to HDCAM-SR-Lite, Cineform-LOW, or even AVC-I(HD 60P profile) would be the way to edit that material in Vegas.