[Dick Dyszel]

Hello again,
Trying to leave no stone unturned, I went back to Microsoft and downloaded .NET framework 4.0 to see if it made a difference and to make sure I didn’t screw up makeing new templates, I tested using only standard templates in MainConcepts and Sony.

Sadly there was no change. 10 rendering took twice as long as 8.

Could having both 8 and 10 on the same machine create a problem?

[Dick Dyszel]

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried to make sure I’m comparing apples with apples. Both versions of Vegas are 32 bit. The video in question was shot this weekend on a Canon HV20. I am using the recommended HD rendering settings for Vimeo HD. The project settings were the same and I even checked the preferences under options in both 8 and 10. Here there was a difference with allocated dynamic ram: 120 for 8 and 350 for 10. However on further testing I set them both to 120 and there was change in performance.

I for testing purposes I took the same 1:10 sample rendering to mp4 using MainConcept. It too 7:35 for 8 and 15:59 for 10.

Using identical 1:10 SD files and Vimeo SD settings:
it took 2:20 for 8 and 5:00 for 10.

I tried a variety of AVI files and here 10 was only a second longer.

The computer is running XP with all the latest Windows updates. But again I have both 8 and 10 running on the same machine, so that shouldn’t be the difference. I’m really confused and disappointed.

Any furhter suggestions would be appreciated.

[Dick Dyszel]

I upgraded yesterday from 8 to 10 and regret it already. I mainly create video for the web so I use mp4 a lot. I have found that using identical files, with identical settings on the same computer results in 10 taking more than twice as long to render as 8. This is true for both SD and HD files. AVI is about the same rendering time. But doubling my render times was not my reason to upgrade.

Customer service said I should have downloaded the test version and tried it first because once I paid, I owned it no matter how badly it performed. That will teach me for every again trusting Sony.