video card

John Rofrano
January 19, 2010 at 8:31 pm

> I’d love some opinions as to which would better help solve my jerky video preview problems.

Neither. Vegas doesn’t use your video card GPU for playback so no video card in the world will help. Don’t waste your money unless you have other 3D applications that can take advantage of it. The only thing you can do is get faster processors because Vegas playback 100% CPU bound.

~jr

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Roger Bansemer
January 19, 2010 at 10:03 pm

Thanks for that information John. This forum is just great.
Byron Kawane
January 20, 2010 at 6:45 pm

I’m just getting started w/ editing in HD transitioned from Platinum Pro land over to Vegas 9, really enjoy using the program and just built a new i7 860 editing machine for this purpose.

Like Roger, I’m getting choppy playback editing HD 720P .mov videos.

I read on other threads and like you mentioned, that Vegas only uses CPU to process video I noticed that my CPU is only running at 25-30% across all cores.

Is there a way to get Vegas use more CPU to process the video for smoother playback. I know Vegas can use 100% of CPU processing to render why not video playback?

Thanks!
John Rofrano
January 23, 2010 at 4:20 pm

I don’t believe there is any way to get Vegas to use more of the CPU than it’s already using during preview.

~jr

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Byron Kawane
January 25, 2010 at 6:57 pm

Thanks John!

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