Another topic about slow rendering

[Steve Rhoden]

You are not gonna get any faster renders using that computer.
You need a lot more memory and a much faster Processor for you
to get faster render speed you are looking for.

Steve Rhoden
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Filmex Creative Media.
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[Kyle Hatch]

What kind of processor and RAM would I need then? Of course someone is going to say the “latest and greatest” but I know that’s not the case as I’ve proven that wrong with computer builds running other programs.

[Kyle Hatch]

I wish there were an edit feature…

My specs seem to pass the ones listed by Sony by a fair amount. The only one area that may need more is where they list 8 GB RAM recommended but other than that, I’ve passed the specs easily.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Kyle Hatch] “My specs seem to pass the ones listed by Sony by a fair amount.”

I’m sorry but a Core 2 Duo doesn’t come close to meeting minimum specs for editing HD footage. You need an i7 processor to stand a chance of doing it easily.

[Kyle Hatch]

All Sony lists is “2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D)” which I do have. But I understand where you are coming from. I have been able to make 2 short HD videos using a laptop and an AMD Phenom II P960 1.8GHz cpu. One was with Vegas Pro 12 and the other with Adobe Premier Elements.

I can’t find any i7 CPU’s I can afford but I have found some i5-2500k cpus I may be able to pick up. That *should* be pretty good for HD videos. I may just have to stick to recording in 720p.

I also just finished rendering an HD video, took 5 hours and after that… I am having quality problems. The blue sky is pixelated and so is any other subject when quick movements are made. I am 99% sure I had the right settings for rendering the video. Any thoughts?

[Mike Kujbida]

[Kyle Hatch] “I can’t find any i7 CPU’s I can afford but I have found some i5-2500k cpus I may be able to pick up. That *should* be pretty good for HD videos. I may just have to stick to recording in 720p.”

Thanks to my IT department, I’m stuck with a lowly i3 processor at work. It does the job but the render times are painful for HD which is all I shoot now (1440 x 1080 @60i).

[Mike Kujbida]

[Kyle Hatch] “The blue sky is pixelated and so is any other subject when quick movements are made.

If GPU is on, turn it off and see if that helps.

“I am 99% sure I had the right settings for rendering the video. Any thoughts?”

What render setting did you use?

[Kyle Hatch]

GPU is turned on. I tried one a while ago with it off and it took quite a while longer to render. I don’t have the settings with me right now, I’ll post those when I can. What I did notice was I did not have the “two pass” option enabled. I tried upping the bit rate to “Average 22,000,000 and Max 28,000,000” and that seemed to solve part of the pixels. What exactly does the “deblocking filter” do? I couldn’t see a difference.

[Pat Keough]

Bumping the bitrate is usually the solution to poor quality renders with pixelation etc. Your processor meets the requirements for Sony Vegas and it does render so… there you go. It does work…. I don’t know if I would recomend buying an i5. Although it would perform better than your current core 2, saving the money until you can pick up an i7 would be smarter.

As far as the deblocking filter: I would imagine Google will help you there.

[Kyle Hatch]

I guess I’ll have to find the right amount of bit rate to use. You’d think the “Internet hd” option that matches your video settings would automatically choose the best settings. I used google quite a bit for answers, found a few on other forums but none that actually give a definite answer, hence the reason I came here, for help. For everyone else, is $100 extra worth the difference from an i5-2500k for an i7-6500k? My current processor is only going to get me so far when it takes nearly 6 hours to render a 15 minute video…