[David Norman]

looks to me they support OpenCL…. and AMD cards are on their supported list… though they do not go into much detail on particular cards

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[David Norman]

for the price the 3930k or the 4930k are the best bang for buck 6 core CPUs …. for video editing we dont need ECC ram and such you get with Xeon line…

$500 for a CPU is nice with 6 cores and if you dare to overclock and test for stability you can get great performance out of the 3930/4930k cores.

I recently made the same choice

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[David Norman]

i am like you, not a pro… just trying to learn and have fun

I have a 3770 i7, 32gb of RAM and a R9 290 in my editing/gaming rig and newbluefx stuff grinds me to a halt without prerending to ram (where 32gb of ram comes in handy)

I am upgrading to a second hand 3930k (6 core, 12 thread) CPU+Motherboard for $500… selling me 3770+motherboard for around $250 and that is a nice upgrade for editing for $250 🙂

in short…. with Vegas and most video editors… CPU horsepower is needed

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[David Norman]

dynamic ram preview renders the looped section of the timeline to your RAM…. so you set it based on how much RAM you have and how much your machine uses for other tasks.

It will playback smooth even if you add a ton of filters since it is pre-rendered. This is where having 32gb – 64gb of RAM is a huge benefit.

If your not adding overlays, effects or transitions than I am not sure what is going on here.

Try disabling your GPU in the options and only use the CPU and see if it improves.

If it does, make sure your drivers are updated and try it again.

I have seen a poor quality PSU cause the GPU to be under powered therefore throttle the card and decrease gaming/rendering performance without the user knowing

Also is your media on the SD card, Hard drive or SSD? that could be your bottleneck….

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[David Norman]

i7 on a laptop is nothing like an i7 on a desktop… not even really the same CPU….. Heck most i7 notebooks are dual-core with hyper-threading and not even quad core. My Dell XPS 15 has a true quad-core i7 and it is about 1/2 the speed of my 2 generations old i7 3770k in my desktop.

Intel just refreshed CPUs to the 4790 and it is THE CPU to get for high performance without killing the wallet. https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor–BX80646I74790K/dp/B00KPRWAX8/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1403167603&sr=1-2&keywords=i7+4790

Sure the Ivy-E 6 or 8 core will outperform a quad-core or even the more expensive E5-2600 series Xeon CPUs, but for most things the 4790 will do very well.

The new Crucial MX100 512mb SSD is $200 so… yeah get 3 of them and put 2 in RAID 0 and then use 1 as a render to drive 🙂 for $600 you have performance and storage size that $2k would have cost a year ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX100-adapter-Internal-CT512MX100SSD1/dp/B00KFAGCUM

As for GPU, unfortunately it is not as important as I or most here would like, unless you go with a high end workstation GPU Vegas render times and preview window performance just doesnt change much with a more expensive GPU

That being said the R9 290x does a good job and then you can play some games with your monster rig at some point 🙂 (oh and they have fallen in price recently…. thanks to the fall of coin mining)

I have 32gb of RAM and never use it all…. but it isnt that expensive so…. yeah why not

Make sure you have a good quality PSU 700w or more with this type of rig. Powerful CPU and GPU combo = lots of watts

Then concider your monitor. I would love to edit on a 4k display for added screen room (I use 3 23″ 1080p monitors and it works well) or one of the ultrawide displays.

Contour Shuttle Pro has made the biggest difference (hardware wise) out of any upgrade I have done in terms of speeding up my workflow

best of luck…. and building a PC is a lot of fun! [H]ardforum (hardform.com) is a great resource for building a PC

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[David Norman]

updated my post to reflect (She) sorry bad habit.

I understand not wanting to spend more money and the internal drive will be nice for long term storage.

You will get good performance using the SSD by itself, i know I do on my laptop.

look forward to seeing some of your work! 🙂
Best of luck

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[David Norman]

i think she would get better render times if he had all of his media on the SSD and just moved it to a hard drive for storage after editing.

the single ssd is going to have faster response time even with reading and writing to the same drive the OS is on than a hard drive will have.

If it were me, i would replace the internal hard drive with a 2nd SSD, there is that new 512gb SSD (Crucial) that is $199. It is not the fastest drive but it is much faster than any hard drive and would make a great source drive to store media on.
https://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1821226

I personally would not use any hard drive for any files that are in use by vegas for a render job, only for storage.

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[David Norman]

thanks guys I finally got it. it was a lame issue. The event fx window was opening to the right of the master bus (volume) and was completely hidden (even when i hit default layout). The only hint that it was there was a very small horizontal scroll bar below the master bus.

Stupid mistake I know, but when in the midst of a quick edit it is frustrating when something simple like this gets you 🙂

Thanks for the help guys and your right a screen grab would have been helpful! Sorry for not being helpful.

This is what I was working on that night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_DkZ6_hGbo

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[David Norman]

just upgraded to 13 and I totally missed that…. thanks for the heads up!

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[David Norman]

i have a dell XPS 15 with similar specs and vegas movie studio 11/12/13 and Vegas Pro 12/13 and it works fine enough. You wont get “best full” on the preview window after adding event FX or transitions but that is okay.

I would put all your working files on the SSD and backup or long term storage on the spinning disk. There is no way having any media on the HDD is going to speed up your workflow

Get a USB3.0 SD card reader and use it rather than the USB 2.0 out from the camera and get the fastest SD cards you can afford…. Whenever I do a real project that has multiple cameras and is all day I am shooting about 100gb of HD content a day. So moving things around takes a while.

You might look into setting up proxy files to work with if this is your main editing machine.

I personally only do quick edits, small jobs or temparary onsite previews with my laptop and then move the media and vegas file to my desktop and do the real work there.

Also get a good mouse and or a shuttle contour pro, those help me a ton when editing on a laptop.

these are just my suggestions based on my own limited experience

here are a couple jobs I have done:
https://www.youtube.com/v/hW31OosxZeM&fs=1&autoplay=1

Sports:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkARRxE3M90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UoIb9pg5Mo

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