John Kendrick
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Clive,
Just as a final note – see my thread on “Kepler and Sony Vegas – (Angry Face)”
It appears there are issues with Sony Vegas and nVidia CUDA when you use a 6xx series card – it doesn’t work on Vegas Pro 11 at all and doesn’t properly work on Vegas Pro 12.
If you were going to get an nVidia chip in your laptop, be aware that you might not see the benefits of the GPU processing as much as you might hope.
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– AH, the penny has dropped –
What you all don’t know is that I specifically bought my new machine to work on / with Vegas Pro 12
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[quote] Lack of information explaining that SVP12 doesnt work on Kepler is one thing that I am annoyed about.[/[quote]
Just to expand on this – I am frustrated there is little or no clear explanation that Sony Vegas Pro 12 does not work properly / well on nVidia 6xx series cards due to the Kepler changes – be it nVidia or Sony fault – that is my issue.
[quote] You are trying to run brand new hardware technology on software that was released a few years ago [/quote]
Nope this is actually related to Sony Vegas Pro 12 only.
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Lack of information explaining that SVP12 doesnt work on Kepler is one thing that I am annoyed about.
I was surprised to see that this issue isn’t more clearly stated. People don’t upgrade often (like me) and when they do, they would hope that their new hardware would work with their software.I haven’t and I am not complaining that Vegas Pro 11 doesn’t work with Kepler. I use solely 12 now.
If I had know that the 6 series nVidia cards (Kepler) didn’t work on Vegas I would have probably thought a little harder / waited until it was sorted.
Shelling out two or three thousand dollars, you kinda (maybe wrongly) believe that things should all slot together.
Money / hardware a side (as I am drawing other benefits from what I bought), I am frustrated that I spent many days of my life attempting to get something to work that never will (not on the current version of drivers / SVP12).
Do I blame Sony, partly – Do I blame nVidia, again, partly, this should be backward compatible with no issues.
I wanted to make sure that my post is out there so people, who like me what to maximise their bang for buck, can cacth this early and either not blow the money, or two, not spend days trying to figure out what the h3ll was wrong…
Overall I want my SVP12 to work on my new machine – I certainly didn’t expect my old kit to run faster!
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I am going to create a new discussion about this area . . .
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Vegas Pro 12 is the software.
Keen to understand then, should I use the OpenCL rather than CUDA rendering? When i select “Test my GPU” it only shows the CUDA option, not the OpenCL.
You are right, the old machine was the 950, the new one is teh 3770S
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I have spent the last seven days trying to optimise my new PC (Win 8)setup to work with Vegas Pro 12. When I am done, i will post back.
Its been an absolute nightmare!
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“Sounds like six of one half a dozen of the other in terms of end cost, no?”
Yes, completely right…
Swapping out RAM or a HDD is very similar to a desktop – except you’d lift the keyboard (in some instances) for the RAM.
Whats the best option – I would personally, if i was buying, get a light laptop, one with a nVidia GPU and a high(er) resolution screen.
I would get at least a gen 3 Intel core i5.Hope that this helps.
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Sorry – I wasnt intending to cause confusion.
I have a vegas pro 12 clip all built and ready to go. Its made of lots of AVCHD clips with a few basic transitions.
When I go to render in MP4 the issue that i have described above occurs. The same file on older hardware is much quicker – the new system is at least twice as slow, if not slight more.
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CUDA – its special cores (chip bits) that make the running of SV run quicker. Its specific to nVidia – the industry standard is called OpenCL.
Vegas will force processing down the CUDA route, freeing up the main processor to do more of the lighter weight stuff.
The ones you have posted seem to be more work machines (no CUDA or nVidia processor is mentioned).
How technical are you?
You could get a laptop with a good processor but not a lot else (skip the nVidia stuff) and then replace the RAM and the HDD with an SSD and a job lot of fast RAM from Crucial.
These make it a lot quicker.
Regarding the rendering – a lot of people will have different views – Intel QuickSync, CUDA and OpenCL all help with the speed but many suggest reduce quality of the footage.