[Michael West]

John – thanks for the reply. I bought the GTX 600 architecture because – for the price – I got almost 3 times the CUDA cores for almost $40 less than a GTX 570 card! The raw power of the card seemed to be so much higher for less money that I figured the investment in the future was well worth it. The Sony website says GXT 4xx or higher and shows examples of the GTX 570 – so I guess technically it’s wrong.

I’ve done some searching on the Internet and was surprised to find only a few posts stating that Vegas 11 doesn’t even see the GPU acceleration and I’m assuming the same with Vegas 12. Even Pinnacle’s Studio 16 (I have 15 because of a product I bought) supports the GTX 6xx series and I’d really rather not use it for that purpose!

I’m going to start experimenting with using RAM disks. I probably didn’t need to upgrade the 16GB I had in the machine but this RAM is the fastest for my motherboard by far and having the extra RAM may also allow me to get rid of the virtual disk settings altogether. I’m curious to see whether read/write times would benefit by using RAM and copying them over to permanent storage will make a significant difference.

[Michael West]

Brad and Steve, thanks for your responses. I’m taking a look at the current GTX cards and realize that there is nothing worth buying except for $250 and up that would make a huge difference. It also seems that the 670 gets you more than twice the cores for only about 25% more money. Might be worth splurging at the right time.

Regarding the plugins, I think that Prodad was included, or at least some lite version. I think there was a special Vegas version that isn’t a general version that cost $200 or so, which was way too much for me for the stabilization. I found it difficult to use at times except for very specific scenes which it did help a great deal without losing too much resolution. Will have to think about getting this one. Looks like NewBlue has their own too.

Regarding NewBlue, it appears they have several different packages. The Video Essentials packages seem to be the ones to get as well as an audio. But I have no idea what would be the most versatile that I could use for the work I do. It’s mostly amateur work, family videos, some video clips I do professionally for YouTube including tutorials. So many plugins, so much money, not enough to go around. 🙂 Hoping some of you will have some insight that might be recommended.

[Michael West]

So from what I gather:

(i) If your hardware is the limited kind that they now accelerate
(ii) If you really want/need NewBlue Titler

Then it’s worth considering an upgrade, which is almost $150. Neither really affects me (I’d rather have a better stabilizer in there like ProDad2 instead of 1.)

[Michael West]

John –

Many thanks for your message. I think that my biggest disappointment was from there not being any benefit from having my CPU and motherboard and the reported amazing encoding offered using Quick Sync. While I’d agree with you about the waiting game, I’d be inclined to say that I’d probably be able to wait it out if QS is not included and if the product generally stays as is.

I hear you on the windows bit. To me the issue is more along the lines of the unnecessary scrolling. You click a plugin and it defaults to a window that assumes your monitor is 15″. Perhaps I’m missing some setting but that is what I recall that happens often. I also wish some things were a bit more intuitive. Otherwise, it’s a great editor.

Additionally, I’d have hoped that the DVD/BluRay authoring package was more streamlined. It still is a bit awkward as is.

Thanks again…

[Michael West]

More 3D stuff? The acceleration doesn’t seem substantial and certainly not for my i7-2600K setup.

Honestly, Vegas Pro 11 seems like a great version to skip and wait for V 12. I really don’t see many benefits other than more canned plugins. Would rather they have included a better version of Mercalli for that money and improved much of the awkward Windows 3.1 type work environment that hasn’t changed in years.

[Michael West]

I like Mercalli by ProDad (I think this is supposed to be a lite version) but I find it way too expensive just for one effect, as important as it is. I saw a sale that I missed, unfortunately, and at this point will rely upon the software to correct the image. Ideally it would be nice for a camera to shoot slightly larger video above 1920×1080 so it could be cropped. I’m guessing that is an option on high end professional cameras.

[Michael West]

I have a seven minute video stretched to 11 minutes. I have some effects on just a few events. It’s only ONE track! 1 hour and 30 minutes time elapsed, approximately 10 hours to render and growing. Ridiculous. I’m just going from VOB to MPEG2, that’s all. Something is very wrong, Vegas 9 with the update and Windows 7 using 64 bit.

[Michael West]

Thank you! I just found another thread of someone else with the same problem! Yes… this is unfortunate that there is no error message but very happy that it presents no problem!