Bought new recomended graphic card from sony’s site, now vegas is slower then ever why?

[Mark Barton]

I can’t tell from your reply if you tried setting the Preview RAM and threads. Did you try Best vs Preview for the quality settings of the preview dialog? Did you match the source settings and turn off scaling?

[Lance Bachelder]

Yeah I would have never brought back the nVidia card. The issue is Vegas, not your hardware. The only codec that I have found to perform well on multiple systems is Sony XDCAM and XDCAM 422. On my last DSLR feature we actually did all audio synching on Vegas timeline then exported the takes into XDCAM 422 files which ran well during the edit.

The only NLE I have seen that can truly handle myriad of camera native codecs is Premiere CS5.5 or CS6. With you GTX570 you could fly through clips with no slow downs on your current system.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Stephen Crye]

@Dave Haney;

Thanks Dave, once again a great, detailed, cogent reply!

also thanks mucho for the tip about GPU shark.

BTW I don’t do any GPU acceleration with Vegas on my aging Dell T3400 … just glad everything still works. Warranty just expired, no $$ to upgrade anytime soon.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidea FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Just out of curiosity – I just installed Vegas 11 build 595 – if I did want to test GPU acceleration with my nVidia FX 570, what do I need to do? SVP 11 just tells me GPU is off and the drop down does not have an “on” options.

I know I am being a doofus just asking without doing ANY research at all …. ;-b

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidea FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Jim Greene]

When you update Nvidia drivers, do it from their website, do not use the driver from the MS update, it is bad.

-Jim.

[Dave Haynie]

Maybe it’s entirely unrelated.

Did you take out the new graphics card and drop the old one in? Did you get back to that standard of performance?

In any tech situation, it’s useful, every now and then, to revert back to “what worked”. I’ve done this in Vegas projects that got weird, I’ve done this in electronic circuits (via FPGA) and software that got weird, etc. It’s not always possible to go back to yesterday’s thing and step though the changes, one by one. But you can at least get a sanity check.

I know of no good reason that changing the GPU, yet leaving the GPU acceleration off in Vegas, would have ANY effect on Vegas. Ok, if you have OpenGL plug-ins, perhaps. But other than that, up until Vegas started adding GPU acceleration, your graphics card had virtually no effect on performance. None. If you get slow by the simple existance of two completely different graphics cards, both when shut off… I think something else changed, and that something else is your problem.

Do you have Vegas 10 installed? How does its performance compare? It’s not even going to know about any ATi card installed, and unless you’re rending to AVC from the Sony CODEC, it doesn’t know about your nVidia card, either. That’s another sanity check I would have run (I always keep an older version or two of Vegas around, particularly in the buggy modern times).

-Dave

[Stephen Crye]

Mark, how do we turn off scaling?

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Hi Mark;

OK, I turned off scaling and wow – it is faster. It is also cool to have a full-size section of the vid visible in the preview window!

But, is there a way to select which section is visible? for example, a way to slide the view up/down, left/right?

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Mark Barton]

I usually make the Window bigger or choose BEST-half or BEST-quarter to get it to fit. I have not found a way to select which section of the video you see in the screen. Although recently I hooked up a second monitor and it makes this a non issue.

[Stephen Crye]

Not that this will help, but I just discovered something about speed on my old computer:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/948331

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V