[Matt Buckley]

Came here to see if there was a good way to do this very thing. I like this workaround! Hopefully there will be better support for this in the future — seems like we’re still waiting.

[Matt Buckley]

To follow up to my own post in case anyone else finds a similar problem, I was able to use VLC to convert the file (to MP4 again) and that made the files playable in VLC, albeit with corrupted audio. They still didn’t import into Sony Vegas, but after the VLC convert, THEN I was able to run them through Handbrake. All is now well!

The audio is corrupt but luckily, I had a discreet audio file to use for this project so it was no loss. Crisis averted!

[Matt Buckley]

I answered my own question using the benchmark project on this thread:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1019120

I used the linked AE CS6 project to test rendering speed on both cards:

Common:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition OC’d to 3.9ghz
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 8 64-bit

First video card:
GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
core clock 880MHz
384 CUDA cores
AVI render time: 9 min 55 sec

Second video card:
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 128-bit GDDR5
core clock 1071MHz
768 CUDA cores
AVI render time: 4 min 14 sec

Interesting find. Across the board with game performance, the 256-bit memory in the GTX 560 Ti sports a noticeable performance improvement over the GTX 650 Ti with only 128-bit memory. But when it came to rendering this project (as AVI), the newer card was twice as fast. Maybe it does have a lot to do with the CUDA cores in this case.

Hope this helps someone else!

[Matt Buckley]

Perfect time to find this thread. I have two video cards on hand and tried them both.

Common:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition OC’d to 3.9ghz
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 8 64-bit

First video card:
GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
core clock 880MHz
384 CUDA cores
AVI render time: 9 min 55 sec

Second video card:
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 128-bit GDDR5
core clock 1071MHz
768 CUDA cores
AVI render time: 4 min 14 sec

Interesting find. Across the board with game performance, the 256-bit memory in the GTX 560 Ti sports a noticeable performance improvement over the GTX 650 Ti with only 128-bit memory. But when it came to rendering this project (as AVI), the newer card was twice as fast. Maybe it does have a lot to do with the CUDA cores in this case.