Cuda rendering in Vegas 12 Build 770

[Graham Bernard]

[John Rofrano] “This is why I’m starting to believe that Vegas Pro editors would be better off buying newer AMD Radeon cards rather than newer NVIDIA cards until Sony address this.”

Any time soon, on the SONY address thing? – Don’t answer…

I held out 2 years back to get the box I have now. I’m not going to get burned on doing the experimentation for somebody else’s benefit, on my dime too. But we have been here before . . and . . .

I was considering the nVid GTX Titan, but not now.

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Stephen Crye]

Zach, have a look at this thread, discusses the problem in detail.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/973767#973907

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Stephen Crye]

Hi All;

As I continue to struggle with optimizing my system, I am realizing that chasing GPU-assist might not be really worth all the headaches.

For example, “Upload to Youtube” does not use my GPU at all. But, I get 3x faster render on the same project using CUDA (I have a Quadro 2000 and an Xeon 5606).

I often render projects that are a mix of Sony mt2s, Panny 50 h.264 .mov and .avi produced with HuffYUV and veeDub64. Depending on the source file, I might see GPU at 80% or close to zero.

I’m starting to shop around for a new mombo. This time I am going to be picky and get it right.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Steve Rhoden]

I am realizing that chasing GPU-assist might not be really worth all the headaches.
Correct, its not worth it at all!

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019

[Graham Bernard]

Steve, what GPU do you use?

G

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Steve Rhoden]

I dont purchase/use any kind of GPU card or any specialized built
system Graham. I dont bother with those stress anymore, i simply
purchase the average Joe’s powerful laptops, disable most of the
softwares GPU needs and have no issues whatsoever, no matter
how complex a Vegas, After Effects or 3D Project i throw at it
with any source video format.
You see, whats causing so much crashes and frustration for most
users, are the specialized hardware/cards and the softwares
integration with them, And its marketed as if you need to
have these cards if you want to stay at the cutting edge of fast
editing technology etc, NO YOU DONT.
I just hit render, move to my next system to do some more
editing and patiently wait until my renders are completed.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019

[Graham Bernard]

Thank you for that Steve.

G

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Stephen Crye]

I’m tending to agree with Steve R. regarding render & patiently waiting. But one thing I do need and want is fast real-time preview at reasonably good resolution. Wondering … can I get that with fast CPU?

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Steve Rhoden]

Fast real-time preview at reasonably good resolution could
depend on Memory Cache (along that line).
They could take the Dynamic Ram feature to a higher level, to
do some kind of background pre-rendering etc.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019

[John Rofrano]

[Steve Rhoden] “They could take the Dynamic Ram feature to a higher level, to do some kind of background pre-rendering etc.”

Most other NLE’s already do this. Vegas Pro makes it a manual step and then does a horrible job of keeping track of what was pre-rendered. I agree Sony needs to step up in this area and at least catch up with other NLE’s.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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