[James Redmond]

Aaron, Thanks again for all your valuable information. Sorry it’s taken a while to respond with the holidays plus I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10 Pro and it is taking me a while to get everything back and working. I’m almost there.

After reading these series of posts about using dual graphics cards, what I understood was to have one inexpensive card for display and other powerful card for rendering. In the earlier posts I thought your had recommended the FirePro series. When I had the 480 and the 5100 installed I could not get Vegas to use the FirePro 5100. That is when I called AMD tech support and they said to have both graphics card exactly the same. It had to do with the drivers. So I went with two 480.

I am very happy with the setup and the speed. I have the 6950x i7 processor with 32 megs of ram. I have a documentary that I’ve been working for the past several years that is 90 minutes long. About three weeks ago I rendered it and it took about 6 hours. With my new setup it took about 90 minutes! Which is great for me.

Thanks again for your support. Happy New Year, James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Well I built the system as described earlier with the i7 6950, Radeon 480, MSI X99A GODlike Gaming motherboard, 32 gigs ram and and AMD Radeon Pro WX-5100 graphic board.

Could not get the Radeon Pro WX-5100 graphic board to be used in Vegas. Called AMD regarding having dual graphics and the tech support said there would be a conflict with the two different drivers and recommend I use 2 of the same kind of graphics cards. So I am returning the WX-5100 and getting another Radeon 480.

Good luck with it all, James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

I’ve had a similar problem with Titler Pro 4. It won’t happen very much, but it did happen! Very strange. Could never figure it out. James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Aaron, Thanks for all the great information! Your information about setting up a second graphic card just for rendering was amazing!

I am also considering rebuilding my system to speed up rendering in Vegas 13 (haven’t installed 14 yet). Generally I do a lot of editing then have several projects that need to be rendered. So I am always looking at ways to speed up the rendering.

Questions:

Thinking of the Radeon Pro WX-5100 graphic board for only rendering as you recommended. Would it work well with Radeon RX 480? I will use the 480 for display with 2 monitors. I currently have a GTX 970. Would that work or are you recommending both graphics card to be AMD?

I currently have a i7-5930k. Thinking of the i7-6950 with 10 cores instead of the i7-5960. Looks like it does 40 lane processing. Is it worth a 50% increase in price over the 6900k? Looks like it is a 15% increase in performance.

I have with 32 gigs of DDR4-2401 (1200 Mhz). How much ram would you recommend and what speed?

Currently have a Asus x99 Deluxe version 1 motherboard. Thinking of switching to the MSI Extreme Gaming Intel X99 LGA 2011 DDR4 USB 3.1 Extended ATX Motherboard (X99A GODlike Gaming ). Seems to have more USB 3.1, which is becoming pretty standard.

Thanks for all your advice! James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Graham, It is Progressive, but Vegas sees it as interlaced.

Yesterday I upgraded to the latest build of Vegas Pro 13, build 428. Basically same result. I even tried changing the rendering template to 2 pass, progressive, etc. Still drop frames!

However when I got to my other computer with Vegas Pro 12, no dropped frames!

And since you having the same problem it must be Vegas 13.

Thanks for verifying what I’m experiencing.

I guess the only real option is to submit a support ticket and wait for them to identify and fix the problem. James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Debbie, I have a Canon XF-305 (for the past 3 plus years) and a Canon XF-105. I also have Sony Vegas 12 and 13. You can drop the file on the timeline and start working with it. Nothing else needs to be done. You should have no problems with the MXF files. James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Thanks Vince! Will try to track down an agent. James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Aleksey, That does not change the default audio fade type for me.

Graham, I do have add-on programs that will change it after the fact. It just seems like we should be able to set up what the default fade type would be.

thanks for both of you looking into it. Still don’t have a satisfactory solution.

All the best, James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

Graham,

No.

I am talking about any audio clip, that when you take the end of the clip and do a audio fade (lets say a fade in), it uses a fade type that I do not use and I have to manually change the fade type each time.

It seems that there has to be a way to set those default fade type in preferences.

Thanks, James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[James Redmond]

I paid for and then called Sony Tech Support yesterday and they verified there is a problem.

The other thing we noticed and reported to Sony is that when you used the tags with the subclips it does not remember them! When you close Vegas and open it up the tags are gone!

So the transfer of Media Bins and the tagging feature does not work! James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA