[Bill Mash]

Intel and Nvidia fight like cats and dogs while AMD has owned ATI since 2006. From a gaming perspective it holds a lot of current and future promise. It’s not hard for me to google and see that ATI is winning the gaming battle, good for them. I have a motherboard from AMD coming with onboard ATI video (they all do) with ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology Support. If I was a gamer I wouldn’t even look at a Nvidia card with this motherboard.

From an editing perspective its a mute point as PP and Vegas are coded for Nvidia. The new Adobe Mercury engine requires specific Nvidia cards as does Vegas via the Cuda Engine.

my two cents

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Bill Mash]

My new build Phenom X6 should be about a 60% performance boost over the Q6700, can’t wait as my REALLY ancient dual core Pentium is sad, LOL.

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Bill Mash]

Your best bet is to jump into the frying pan and experiment with the clip using a repeating loop. NewblueFX has filters that might help if you find nothing works in Vegas (Track EQ, etc).

Make sure you or your audio guy uses headphones the next time:-)

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Bill Mash]

I would focus your money and attention on lighting the green screen properly. You’ll get better and faster results no matter what your plans are for chroma-keying.

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[Bill Mash]

I’m building a system with all parts in transit — to answer your question from my point of view three letters…. AMD. You’ll save $160 over an I7 760 that the Phenom II X6 1055T beats in the encoding test below. AMD motherboards are also slightly less expensive thus you’ll save roughly $180 to spend on HDDs:-)

UP:AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

x264 HD Video Encoding Performance
https://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed/6

Pair the Phenom with a MB that supports USB 3.0, SATA 6 and DDR3 and you’ll be future proof for roughly $30 over the SATA 2 USB 2.0 board (aka older revision) in the Gigabyte example. DDR3 supports faster ram speed and clean resets without much of a price premium (~20%) over DDR2.

MB:GIGABYTE GA-880GMA-UD2H AM3 USB 3.0
RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 8GB DDR3

Operating system is a no-brainer
OS: Windows 7 64-bit professional OEM

Case is VERY subjective
CASE:APEVIA X-QBOII X-QBOII-RD/500

The drive below is 7,200 RPM with 32mb of cache and holds its own respectfully against 10,000k rpm drives with 16 mb of cache for far, far less. The drive has a good track record and is inexpensive. IMHO this choice is a no-brainer as well. I plan on configuring one drive for OS and programs and some localized backups. One for Production Project source media and one for rendering. Once I do some benchmarking I’m going to reconfigure as raid 0 and see what the performance gain is for rendering. The review and video below shed light on this excellent drive at a fantastic price $100 for 1TB at Newegg.com!

https://www.pcshoptalk.com/content.php?199-Western-Digital-RE3-1TB-Hard-Drives/view/6&s=f0da03ad016416a3365ea59ecb26a2c0&

https://www.3dgameman.com/reviews/990/western-digital-re3-1tb-hdd

DRIVES:Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB * 3

The BD optcal drive below is another no-brainer at $120.00 with 10X write speeds to BD. Considering the media I picked up was 4x this drive has headroom and as an added bonus supports HD-DVD of which I have a dozen.

Optical drive: LG Super Multi Blue

Good luck

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Bill Mash]

I’m in the process of upgrading my workstation motherboard and CPU to an AMD Phenom 6-core CPU with a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. Hence it’s really not worth chasing this issue any further as my current configuration has seen it’s last production render.

Thanks for all the help.

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Bill Mash]

Using the HD rendering test from the Sony board was helpful, including seeing at least one poster experiencing similar issues.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=526098

07:09 — V8.0c
12:20 — V10.0

My system simply never get’s out of 2nd gear in V 10.0. In V8.0c my processor cranks into the high-eighties early on and utilizes more than twice the physical and virtual memory throughout the render.:-(((

OS:Windows XP 32-bit
OS Drive:7,200 rpm raid 1 scsi 250gb
Edit Master: G-Drive Mini_Raid 1 250gb
Edit Output: G-Drive Mini 250gb.
MB:Pentium Dual Core 3.2 GHZ (64-bit capable)
MEM:4GB of Ram, 3.37gb addressable.
Display:NVIDA GT-430

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[Bill Mash]

Performed a more detailed analysis including using a more-standard rendering scenario. Rendered to MPEG2 HDV 1920X1080-24p 25MPS, the first 30-seconds of a multi-layered production project. In Summary Vegas-10 simply isn’t utilizing system resources properly. The shorter test-clips show a more dramatic difference as it wasn’t until 30% into the render before system resources started to spike up. At that point vegas estimated 13-minutes to complete.

Vegas-10 = 6:20
Production Clip 30-seconds
~60-avg-CPU-Usage +565MB PM + 550MB VM
Vegas-08 = 4:25
Production Clip 30-seconds
~80%-Avg-CPU-Usage + 850MB PM + 900MB VM

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Bill Mash]

User sighs as he learns that XP doesn’t support CUDA and DirectCompute:-(

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[Bill Mash]

I was actually at Frys getting HW when you replied:-)

I’m going conservative at this point replacing my mainstream ATI video card with a mainstream NIVIDIA card. The file below is positively fascinating to see the progression in five-years!

1236_gpuzcomparision.pdf.zip

Have to go back and get more memory as they gave me the WRONG DIMMS.

Cheers

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~