Problems running Sony Vegas 12/13 [Technical]

[John Rofrano]

A Hex Core instead of a Quad Core would certainly give you a boost as would an AMD R9 290x/390x instead of the useless NVIDIA card.

~jr

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[Toine Verhoeff]

As of this month, Priority would be to get a CPU THEN a Graphics Card? or would you recommend getting a graphics card first.

Also is the 390x supported ?

Thanks for the quick response!

[Toine Verhoeff]

Although, a 3770k should easily be able to handle some simple cutting work!?

It’s just giving me 100% CPU Load all the time, now and then it’s completely gone.. so i’ve got no clue what causes it!

[John Rofrano]

[Toine Verhoeff] “As of this month, Priority would be to get a CPU THEN a Graphics Card? or would you recommend getting a graphics card first.”

The right graphics card can have a *significant* impact in playback. In the testing that I’ve done in this thread, the difference between GPU on and off was 29.97 fps playback with it on and 0.5 fps with it off. That’s a 60x improvement!!! That was using an ATI Radeon HD 5870.

The question is whether it will speed up your footage and the answer is, I don’t know. GPU support is hit-n-miss with Vegas Pro. I’m guessing that your CPU is having a hard time decoding the highly compressed MPEG4 video you are feeding it and the GPU would be a tremendous help with that, but unfortunately, you need to try and see.

What I could do is test for you. If you send me a DropBox link to some footage, or even with a project with a lot of cuts that doesn’t play back smoothly on your computer, I could test it with and without my GPU on my computer and see of the GPU alone makes a difference. The results might be skewed because I have a 12-Core and you have a 4-Core but I can always test and see.

[Toine Verhoeff] “Also is the 390x supported ?”

Vegas Pro supports OpenCL so any card that implements OpenCL is supported. The R9 300 series and 200 series are supported.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Toine Verhoeff] “Although, a 3770k should easily be able to handle some simple cutting work!?”

Yea, the problem might be the codec compression used on the files you are editing. Also, the container they are in. Sometimes Vegas Pro can’t edit files easily because of the way they are written. Vegas Pro is tested with “real” camera footage. Then people come along with all these free game capture programs and who knows how the files were written but they certainly are not consistent or always optimized for editing.

~jr

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[Toine Verhoeff]

Thank you thus far for all the help!

I used to do the same work for a different client whom had similar gear but a different camera used as “facecam”.
I’m almost sure it’s the camera giving the extra load.
Unfortunately i’m not allowed to share the media i am editing so i’m afraid i’ll just have to check one or another!
I’ll start with the 390x which should be easier to return rather than a CPU + Motherboard

Ill keep the topic up to date as soon as i know more!

[James Hauge]

A thought that I’ve used before was to pre-render my source into a format that’s suitable for editing… as little compression as possible and like 30 mbps throughput…

That’d be a simple starting point to see if it’s the source files that are causing your problem…

[Toine Verhoeff]

Hi James!

As of current i have not tested it with a GPU yet.

I can playback the entire raw footage without any stutter. It occurs when i have about 200 Cuts or so done to the project.
I will test out your idea. Havent tried that yet!

Thanks for thinking with me!

~Toine

[Toine Verhoeff]

Okay Just installed a 390x in my computer and it works like a charm!

My CPU still makes vegas tilt a bit so i go to my Task Manager and put the Afinity to 5 cores max.
Now i can watch back my footage on Best(Full) without any stutter.

It’s obvious i’ll still have to replace my CPU for this matter to make everything run smooth but as of now it’s a great temporary fix!

Thank you for your input.

I am now also looking for a Laptop to do the same thing on.

You’d recommend doing the same thing by getting a AMD M395 + 6820HK ?

I’ve seen an Alienware laptop carrying these following specs

Intel® Core™ i7-6820HK (8MB Cache Quadcore 4.14Ghz)
AMD Radeon™ R9 M395X with 4 GB GDDR5
15,6 inch UHD IGZO2 IPS-Screen (3.840 x 2.160) Matte coated 300 Nit
16 GB Dual Channel DDR4 2.133 MHz (8 GB x2)

It would be either that or a similar Specced DELL XPS 15 Laptop with

i7 6700HQ Quad-Core, 6 MB cache, 3,5 GHz w/ Turbo Boost
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M with 3 GB GDDR5
15,6 inch UHD IGZO2 IPS-Screen (3.840 x 2.160) Matte coated 300 Nit
16 GB Dual Channel DDR4 2.133 MHz (8 GB x2)

Your thoughts on this?

I’ll be upgrading my CPU to a 5960x which should suffice on my Desktop

[John Rofrano]

[Toine Verhoeff] “You’d recommend doing the same thing by getting a AMD M395 + 6820HK ?”

Yes, but understand that a mobile GPU won’t have anywhere near the processing power of a desktop GPU. The AMD M395 has 1/2 the power and bandwidth of the AMD R9 390 desktop version. Not that you shouldn’t get it, just that a laptop will never compare to a desktop in performance.

[Toine Verhoeff] “I’ve seen an Alienware laptop carrying these following specs”

I would go with the Alienware. The Dell has an NVIDIA GPU which will not perform as well with Vegas Pro.

[Toine Verhoeff] “I’ll be upgrading my CPU to a 5960x which should suffice on my Desktop”

That 8-Core is an excellent choice. That’s what I would be using if I hadn’t switched to a 12-Core Mac Pro. 😉

~jr

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