Performance

[John Rofrano]

[Scott Francis] “When I watch my performance monitor under Windows it uses less than 20% cpu and just over 2 gig or ram….but the preview, x-fades and such have to be lower quality than I would like. What gives?”

Only the Sony developers can explain how and why Vegas uses resources. I assume it doesn’t use more memory because it doesn’t need to. As for CPU utilization, I just dropped some test Panasonic HDC-TN700 1080-60p footage into a 720-24p project (just to give Vegas a lot of work to preview) and all 4 of my cores are blazing at about 75% the first time through.

I will say that once watched, Vegas caches the frames based on my Dynamic RAM preview which I keep set to 1024MB because I use Boris BCC7 a lot, and the second time through the same clip, the CPU’s were only at 14%. So once Vegas starts caching frames it doesn’t use as much CPU. If you are never seeing the CPU’s up around 75% and the preview is stuttering, that is very strange.

Other than that, how do you like your hexcore? I’m thinking of building one. What motherboard did you use?

~jr

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[Scott Francis]

I REALLY like my AMD 1090T BE!! I am using a GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 with 8 gig of ram and a 60 GB SSD drive for my system drive. I also have about 8TB of of drives from 1-2TB each. I also had a Blackmagic Intensity (PCIe) and capture BETA sp with that. All in all it has been really good. I had to adjust my sample size for my Presonus Firestudio so my audio was good when using a lot of Waves plugins…
I was just really confused why I have to preview at “Preview Full” instead of “Best Full” when my resources are being used so little.

This things COOKS when rendering….I remember when I was rendering with my Quad Core and on took 18 hrs, I did the same with this and it took 2.5hrs! Quite a jump….Vegas just baffles me sometimes though…

Thanks for the input!
Regards
Scott

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions