Dave Osbun
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Personally, I would not spend my money buying a new Intel i7 processor that is the Sandy Bridge architecture. The newer i7 Ivy Bridge processors are considerably more powerful. I another thread I posted a chart that showed render comparison times and the i5 Ivy Bridge processors are faster than the i7 Sandy Bridge processors. The price differences are quite small.
Also, since you are upgrading your system- install an SSD hard drive as your system drive. They are WELL WORTH the money. If you want the best one, it’s the Samsung 840 Pro. If you want to stay within a budget, get the Crucial M4 (which I use).
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What version of the software are you running? I obtained faster render times when I upgraded from Vegas Pro 8 to Vegas Pro 12. Since you already have a monitor, you can spend barely over $1100 on an Intel i7, 16gb RAM, a really nice nVidia or ATI Radeon (7850HD 2gb, for example) video card, an SSD system drive and a big fat high speed SATA6 hard drive (i’d actually get 2 and install them RAID 0). Obviously this is if you build your own and not go the store-bought way.
Lots of options, but you’d be making a mistake by not getting an SSD hard drive and 16gb RAM minimum.
Dave
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Your video render settings are obviously not set to 1280×720. When you go to render the file, make sure the template setting is the above resolution.
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What do you mean “a huge processor”? There’s more to it than hardware……
I have built computers for different people over the years, and quite a few over the last 6 months. They really fly when I deliver them, and the user is quite happy. Then after a few months they contact me saying “it’s not working the same….it’s not fast anymore…..something must have failed.” When I look at the system config file, I see 100% of the time that they downloaded/installed so much crap that it’s bogging down the system. So after about 5 minutes of ‘system cleanup’, the system performs like new again.
So i’m going to guess that you may have items that are chewing up system resources. Go to your Run prompt and type ‘services.msc’ (without the quotes), and sort the list by running processes. Take a good look at what tasks are running and start your cleanup from there.
Dave
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If you’re getting the Windows Blue Screen of Death, you need to look in the Windows Event Viewer. Look at any ‘exclamation points’ and read the message. It should tell you what the problem is. Many times it is hardware related (for example: bad sector on hard drive).
Dave
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Well, it seems it is hardware related then. Is your project being rendered to a different hard drive, or the system C: drive?
Dave
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I used to have the same types of issues at my transitions, but maybe 50% of the time. These problems went away when I switched to two hard drives in RAID 0 (striping) for my video clips, instead of the one high-speed external drive I was using.
Dave
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Even though you have a new computer, that doesn’t mean that it’s operating at peak efficiency. Many new computers (Dell, HP, etc.) have bloatware installed, and many of these programs will load when the computer boots up, using up system resources. I’ve been preaching to people for the past 12 years to turn these off on startup (the programs will still run fine when you launch them).
What you’ll want to do is type ‘msconfig’ in your Run box, then click the ‘Startup’ tab. You will want to uncheck EVERYTHING except your anti-virus software. Then reboot.
If you had many items with checkmarks, you should easily see an improvement in system performance. Now see if your render works.
Dave
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Render times are influenced by how fast your computer is. Usually the latest/newest version of the software will take advantage of modern/more powerful computers, thus decreasing render times.
For example, my old laptop was a Core 2 Duo with 4gb RAM and ran Sony Vegas Pro 8. Rendering a 4 minute HD video for YouTube 1080 took about 2 hours. My new computer, which is very powerful, renders the same 4 minute clip in real time- 4 minutes, and i’m also using Vegas Pro 12.
So it basically comes down to hardware. However, you might be able to decrease the render settings, which will decrease render time but also decrease video quality.
You haven’t stated if you’re rendering standard definition video or high definition (and if it’s 1080 or 720).
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You just need to build your own computer. If you don’t know how, hire a local high school geek to put one together. Use Tomshardware.com as a guide to which components to buy if you aren’t knowledgeable in this area. It’ll be cheaper and you can use the best components on the market.
And there will be no need to worry about “will it work with Vegas 12” since any modern computer will work fine. This isn’t the 1990s anymore.
Intel i5 3570K Ivy Bridge 3.40GHz quad core
Asus P8Z77V-LK
16gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD7850 2gb
Crucial M4 SSD + Seagate Barricuda 7200rpm
Windows 7 Pro 64