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  • video card

    Posted by Roger Bansemer on January 19, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    I think I need a better video card.
    The Radeon HD 5850 (about $300) and the
    Radeon HD 5970 (about $600) seems to be my best choices.
    I’d love some opinions as to which would better help solve my jerky video preview problems. I don’t want to spend more than necessary but I will if I have to.

    Sorry to be such an idiot with this stuff.

    Byron Kawane replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • 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

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • 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

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Byron Kawane

    January 25, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    Thanks John!

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