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What are your Shogun recording settings? Cinema DNG?
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That is based on Asmedia 1061 chipset. There are numerous cards based on that chipset, one now at $10 (I have it): https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124045&cm_re=asmedia_1061_sata_host_controller-_-16-124-045-_-Product
And they are all only x1 PCI-E (so IMO they are good for only one SSD):
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John, you didn’t provide enough info, so I assumed wrongly. My bad.
However, a Dell T5500 has the same specs as your Mac.
See here something comparable at $500:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5500-DUAL-SIX-CORE-12-CORE-X5650-2-66GHz-12GB-500GB-DVDRW-/181603163086?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item2a48645bceWhy spend more money to run a Mac in Bootcamp and Windows?
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Vegas runs best on native Windows. I know that some people are in love with Macs but besides the fact that they are overpriced, running a NLE in virtual machine is just wasteful of resources… why?
I have a system almost identical with what John has. Is a Dell Precision T3500 with a 6 core/12 thread Xeon X5650, 15GB memory (max 24GB if I need to upgrade), Quadro FX3800 – paid $330. Added my SSD and 3 HDD in RAID5 plus a Quadro 6000 that I had before – I could go AMD direction too easily for extra $100-150 (eBay again) for better OpenCL support. But I am happy with CUDA for other things, so…
Alternately you could keep your Mac and upgrade the editor. Have no experience of performance in that case.
If you look to edit commercially, you might also want to check EULA’s before, not all NLE allow for commercial work – Vegas Pro allows it.
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[harry singh] “what you think gtx 5 series is very suitable with vegas pro 12”
Since it is a Fermi generation nVidia, it will work better with MainConcept CUDA encoder (rendering). Newer cards are not supported.
However, the timeline acceleration might be better with the 750Ti.Do you have slots to keep both of them in the system? Because you can select what to use for timeline and what for rendering.
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nVidia cards have OpenCL compatibility too… I even posted somewhere a link to a OpenCL benchmark that had various cards tested.
But without looking into his actual GPU usage, is just throwing money away, hoping to be lucky…
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Before you throw money at the “problem” ($350-380 is what John recommends), you can check to see if all the settings are correct and if the card is actually used during preview.
To see the actual GPU utilization, I recommend the free GPU-Z software.
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Check first the GPU utilization (program running on the secondary monitor) while you work a normal project. Watch video memory usage too.
See if you hit 100% at any phase of production.
If not… a new video card will be just wasting your money.
Especially one that cannot be used by MainConcept encoder (not recognized by the 2010 made plug-in).PS: GTX970 has h265 encoding capability. Not used for now in any video editor, but at least is future proof.
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nVidia supports OpenCL too… works for time line acceleration.
It’s just harder to test in Vegas.
It’s just the MediaConcept implementation of OpenCL that is limited to ATI – because they choose CUDA for nvidia.PS: A generic video composition test for OpenCL performance, is this:
My Quadro 6000 (modded from GTX 480) gets 55fps in “video composition”. Don’t know how relevant is for Vegas, maybe not at all…
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About workstation features – they might be useful in a NLE too, it just depends of NLE.
For example my GTX 480 when I modded it to Quadro 6000 it acquired a bidirectional Async Engine between the video memory and system memory, while previously it was just one way (from system memory to video memory). That helped the encoding speed in MainConcept.
There are other limitations that don’t apply to Vegas necessary (nvec encoder has more capabilities for newer Quadro cards then their gaming equals, like more that 2 streams, interlaced support).However, getting a “faster” video card doesn’t mean that the Vegas will be “accelerated”. In my experience, upgrading from Quadro 2000 to Quadro 6000 didn’t speed up the original quad-core system. The GPU utilization just dropped from 80-90% to 20%, because the CPU was pegged at 100% already.
I upgraded to a six core CPU, it got faster, GPU raised to 46-50%, the CPU is not hitting 100%, so the limitation just moved somewhere else.
