How do I turn on GPU accelerated video processing?

[Dan Lindley]

Maybe this has already been answered for you but this only works when rendering as MP4 or Sony AVC. I am having NIGHTMARE render times with Pro 11!!! It’s awful.

[Mike Brennan]

Hi Dave, thanks for the reply. After reading soooo many troubling posts about Vegas 11, I think that
I’ll sit it out for a bit. I can’t take chances with projects at this point..

Thanks,
Mike

[Malcolm Matusky]

Just downloaded the update to VP11 and now my graphics card is recognized by the software!

Malcolm
http://www.malcolmproductions.com

[David Wilson]

Well, that doesn’t seem to be entirely the case. I have had SVP11 recognize both a cheap Nvidia card as well as my new ASUS HD 6870, but then one day I turned off my PC and when I turned it back on later, SVP didn’t recognize my 6870. I assume its some sort of driver issue again, but I don’t understand how it see’s it for several days, then with no changes on my part, it says GPU OFF without an ON option.

David M. Wilson, SCVU
Owner of CWC Video Production of Chicago and Northwest Indiana
http://www.cwcvideo.com
http://www.videopronow.com
http://www.chicagoland-videographer.com

[Jay Gorensteyn]

Okay, this is driving me mad. I have a Radeon HD 6790. After first installing Vegas everything was working fine, acceleration was great, and gave me a huge performance boost in preview and rendering. Then I ran into a video file that caused buggyness in the acceleration, with random blocks and green frames appearing when playing that file. I turned acceleration off just for working with this project, everything worked well (without acceleration), I finished the project, exported it, all is well. Now I go to re-enable my hardware acceleration – and it’s not there anymore! Now all I get in the list is “off”! Updates Vegas to latest build 510 – still nothing. Updated video drivers – still nothing. Removed and re-installed – still nothing!

WTF?! It was working great just yesterday! Nothing changed! It’s like after turning the feature off, it got removed from my system… What the hell, sony…

Anyone got any ideas?.. I’m at a loss here.

[Banks Pappas]

Same problem as many here… this quote is from the SCS website concerning GPU acceleration”

“AMD/ATI
Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU and Catalyst driver 11.7 or later with a Radeon HD 57xx or higher GPU. If using a FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.85 or later is required.”

I’m running a brand new Viao with 16GB RAM, i7 pro. with a Radeon HD 6630M with OpenCL enabled. I have no option for the GPU acceleration, only “OFF.” SCS sent me to sony tech, to get driver updates… still nothing…

two hours with sony tech inside my computer with remote viewing control… no luck. updated everything. switchable graphics are configured to high performance. nothing…

Any ideas? I pledge to post any solution, and I ask my compatriots here to do the same…

[Jay Gorensteyn]

Well… My issue got fixed when I installed the beta preview drivers from AMD (Catalyst 12.1a); suddenly my H/W acceleration returned to Vegas. God knows what was it that got it broken, but it’s okay now. Weird.

[Banks Pappas]

Thanks for the reply Jay… unfortunately, AMD says I have to contact my manufacturer for a driver update… which I did. Sony updated what they have, i think, to be their proprietary driver, and its still not on.

I thought going Sony hardware with Sony software would make everything 5 X 5… assuming their beta testing hardware at SCS would be Sony…

I am supposed to put in an another call to sony escalated Tier 2 tech support (hardware, not the SCS group)… Will let everyone know what happens.

[Dean Malbrath]

I just installed a GTX 570 and am very disappointed as well. My ATI Radeon 5570 seems to be faster with every test I run EXCEPT basic preview rendering in Vegas. The GTX plays the previews with no problems regardless of the effect or transition.

For rendering with the Sony mp4 option in Vegas 10, I can’t get it to even recognize GPU processing. However, after some fiddling it is now showing a 2% GPU usage and a slightly faster render, but Vegas still doesn’t officially recognize the GPU.

I’m in Asia and had to import the card (which is silly because they make them here) which means I had to pay a lot more for it (about $100 more). Looks like a waste of money. So bummed.

[Dean Malbrath]

Wanted to update.

I just moved from Vegas 10 to Vegas 11. Wow, what a difference. Now Vegas will see the GPU and my render times just got cut in 1/2.

Not to sound like a Sony salesman but if you’re still on Vegas 10 and using GPU, you need to upgrade to 11.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration