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Mike Tobias
August 31, 2010 at 2:27 pm in reply to: which perf improvements with a new PC?

So should the SSD be used at the drive for the temp files, if given the choice?

SSDs are coming down in price. I picked up two 2nd generation 60GB OCZ last week for $100 each. They are not the fastest out now, but I already had one so knew it was already much faster than a harddrive.
Mike Tobias
August 30, 2010 at 4:33 pm in reply to: which perf improvements with a new PC?

Excellent! Thanks.
Mike Tobias
August 30, 2010 at 3:48 pm in reply to: which perf improvements with a new PC?

Thanks John, good to know. And yes, most of our projects are in HD. Is there a good chance I can get Vegas Pro to use that many cores? 16 on a local PC and 4 on a remote PC? I ran a test render to wmv with our quad-core and all four cores are being utilized.

Thanks,

Mike
Mike Tobias
August 30, 2010 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Quicktime render problem

I’ve had difficulties render QT files to a network drive. Any time I’ve had the problem, changing the target to a local drive has fixed it for me. I have the same problem if trying to rendering within the QT Pro program.
Mike Tobias
August 30, 2010 at 3:01 pm in reply to: which perf improvements with a new PC?

We’ve been using Vegas 9 Platinum for a few years here on a quad-core PC. I’m looking at upgrading our hardware and software to decrease render times.

I’ve purchased Vegas Pro 9 (to get 64bit) and am looking at what might be the fastest machine to use for editing and rendering. We have a new Dell XPS 9100 with what is currently the fastest Corei7 processor, but this PC might have to go back because of hardware problems.

I was thinking about building a PC using a server motherboard and two 8-core AMD Opteron CPUs, and running Win7 Pro 64bit on it. We also have a 3 year old quad-core Xeon server on the LAN that I’d like to use as a network render station. We typically render to WMV, so I’m wondering if I will be able to utilize all of those cores?

One other variable in all of this: all of our videos reside on a storage server on our gigabit LAN. Editing is done on the workstation, but the source and target videos are always on the storage server. Watching the the perf monitor during a render, network utilization never goes over 5%. Do you think this will impact my render times at all?