Norman Willis
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John, I agree that if Frederic has the budget and wants to see maximum gains he should get a new Core i7. But he has not mentioned budget besides some vague desire to limit outlay should a new box ‘only’ double his rendering speed.
I just want Frederic to be aware of his other options, since he can get maybe 2/3rds of the performance gains for maybe 1/3rd of the cost simply by upgrading his processor, RAM, and switching to x64.
Also he has not mentioned his hard drive configuration, but if he only has one hard drive he could double it yet again for a very small outlay of cash…and in this economy (or in any economy) some guys need to keep an eye to cost.
But there is no question that a Core i7 is the ideal.
Norman Willis
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For what it may be worth, I had issues with a, b and c (and was doing other things when d came out), but I have not had any issues with e.
Norman Willis
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Gabe, I don’t want to insult you, but are you sure that your laptop is virus and malware free? I have heard of PC’s coming with viruses straight from the factory. It sure sounds like a virus or malware, so a quick scan couldn’t hurt. (If you have done a scan, please disregard.)
Also, I assume you have done the customary disk cleanup, defrag, chkdsk and all that?
Also, how full is your C drive? Drives that get 80%+ full tend to really slow down.
I am hoping this will help.
Norman Willis
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>>Vegas Studio does use the CUDA card, but Vegas Pro does not. Perhaps the studio product is Sony’s “public beta” of CUDA??? One can hope.
Steve, that would really be great.
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Frederic,
All other factors being equal (and provided sufficient RAM, which you don’t have) a CoreDuoQuad will render approximately twice as fast as a Core2Duo.
When I switched from Vegas Pro x32 to Vegas Pro x64 just recently, my render times for a 10 minute video with maybe three or four layers dropped from two and a half hours to maybe fifty minutes (more than twice as fast).
I don’t know your budget, but you could upgrade cheaply by getting a CoreDuoQuad and 8GB RAM, and then format C:\ and install Windows 7 x64 and Vegas x64. That will be a budget upgrade that will make your rendering maybe (I’m guessing) three or four times as fast.
If you have the funds, a Core i7 is supposed to be at least 40% faster than said CoreDuoQuad (above) before any overclocking (and overclocking will take it even more, provided you have sufficient cooling). So maybe five or six times as fast.
Also please bear in mind that you can get great performance gains by having more than one drive. Leave Windows and Vegas on C:\ (minimum 7200 RPM spin) and put all of your project files on D:\ (minimum 7200 RPM spin but some say a RAID 0 or RAID 10 configuration will move even faster).
I hope that helps.
Norman Willis
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Hi Gilles.
>>I have been using vol envelopes. I’m also testing out the VASST Ultimate 4. I’ve used the “normalize audio events” feature. WOW! very useful.
May I please ask what the ‘normalize audio’ feature does for you?
Thanks.
Norman Willis
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Um, thanks for the tip, but I guess I am not seeing the need. I just rendered my video using the Sony AVC Internet HD 30p preset, and am now uploading to YouTube (it is at 8%). After that I will upload to Vimeo.
Why do I need this plug-in? What will it do for me?
Norman Willis
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Gavin, I am relatively new to Vegas, but I have used Cineform NeoScene to transcode to Cineform .avi, and it works great. It is much easier for the processor to keep up, especially if you have more than one layer, or do FX of any kind. You can get it for $99.00 at https://www.videoguys.com, or https://www.bhphotovideo.com.
I upload to the web all the time, and Vegas has a great preset for that. It also encodes for DVD just great. The bitrate calculator is off, but if you do a search for Mark’s Bitrate Calculator, I am sure there are several threads on that.
May I please recommend trying that first, and then if you still feel you need something more, then you can spend all of your money 🙂
Norman Willis
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Mike, what Mike K. says about a Quad Core is true. At a minimum you need to upgrade your processor to a CoreDuo Quad (+/-$300).
Also, what version of Vegas are you running? Is it possible that you can format C: and then reinstall all? It might take some time, but then you will have a clean registry, etceteras.
Also, for an NLE machine, if you don’t do emails on it and you don’t take it online except for updates you might consider skipping the anti-virus. Just don’t download or open stuff you don’t know what it is. But I would definitely try to format C and get all new drivers before I ditched Vegas.
I just finished a 1:48:49 project, and am getting ready to do another one right now, so I know it can be done. Hope that helps!
Norman