Sony Vegas pro 9 Rendering very slow

[Mike Kujbida]

What effects did you add?
Certain ones (Magic Bullet, for example) are well known for long render times.

[Nik Davis]

I added the “Star Burst” effect.

Yea, I see what you mean, that effect does look pretty demanding when I think about it. However, when I take off the effect and render it, it’s still not as fast as Pro 8 would render it. However I did notice a slight speed difference when I took it off to render. So I guess it’s mainly the effects itself.

I’m wondering if you, or anyone else would know of a method to optimize Sony Vegas to get the best performance for rendering real time and the final project. Like maybe suggestions on freeing up even more space on my computer so Vegas can get the most out of my processing and/or memory.

Tips on acquiring optimal real time rendering while editing would be greatly appreciated.

[Mike Kujbida]

Yes, Star Burst is a render time killer 🙁

Here’s a tip I grabbed from the Sony Knowledgebase some time ago.
Hope it helps.

Close all background applications.
This is not limited to the programs that show in the system tray.
Do a ctrl+alt+del and end task or process on as many applications as you can.

For Windows XP, you will only need next to your user name:

explorer.exe
taskmgr.exe

Next to “system”:
csrss.exe
lsass.exe
mspmspv.exe
services.exe
smss.exe
spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe
system
system idle process
winlogon.exe

[Nik Davis]

Alright thank you very much for your help. I really appreciate the response. I’ll give it a go.

If anyone else has any other methods, or anything else to add, please feel free.

Nik

[Abdiaziz Dhicis]

well try closing all open aplications, then go project preference
then dynamic ram preview setting max to 200 then go on vegas project media tab-
click lightinning bolt/remove all un used media
than save restart vegas.
open vegas then render the project
good luck

[Mike South]

Heres what Sony wont tell you

If they had provided the proper coding in the rendering process to actually use your graphics card to render then rendering would happen MUCH faster

for example resizing your video frame is done via the cpu, this is a horrid waste of system resources, all modern video cards will do this, this kind of thing is what directx is all about and its why modern HD games play so well

and if you are rendering to the very popular H.264 format it could render at a minimum of 2x real time if you have a graphics card less than a few years old.

That sony left out this functionality is sad in a software package at this price (but so did adobe, which is far worse.)

hopefully they will make this available in a FREE upgrade

[Makenzie Chambers]

My video was short as well, maybe a minute and a half… and it took over 45 minutes to render. Yeah. Someone please reply and help if you can…

[Guy Rocky]

I agree. I have moved over to SV9 from Avid Xpress as although AVID is pretty solid – its like a landrover – you have to pay for any extras. THe editing in SV9 is much easier and quicker with many more options (though the chroma key could have more features) …. Anyway – I am shocked at the render time. This is a joke. I dont want to spend an hour rendering something only to find it don’t look right. I am rendering a green screen chroma keyed over a still JPG. there are colour and defocus effects on both. The scene is 1.30 mins and it will take 60+ mins to render ….. This makes it really difficult to do quick experiments. What does SV suggest??