Stephen Mann
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If it takes a few minutes, it is almost certainly a heat issue. Vegas is very processor-intensive and your CPU will heat up more than just browsing the web or writing a Word document.
If it’s a multi-core processor, a workaround would be to shut down one core (search for affinity in Windows Help). Encoding (“Render As”) will take longer, but not run as hot.
You can download the free “CoreTemp” program and monitor your CPU temperature during the encoding.
A laptop cooler may help, but not if the fan exhaust is on the bottom of the laptop.
Finally, if you’ve had the laptop for a couple of years and never blown out the dust bunnies, then heat is almost certainly your problem.
Steve Mann
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I recall that this is the same behavior as long as I’ve used Vegas.
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You are correct, I am mistaken about the processes used by BCC.
For the OP, here is the link to the Boris recommended video cards:
https://www.borisfx.com/sony/bccsvp/Graphics-Cards.phpPersonally, and this is just me, I avoid ATI because of driver issues that I have personally experienced.
[Dave Haynie] “The main reason Sony hasn’t integrated this for other kinds of acceleration, I believe, is that it’s a very big job. You’re not just re-designing the video decoding, rendering engine, and other internals around GPGPU, you’re adding this to any non-trivial plug-in, or the effect is muted.”
I’ve essentially been saying this for a while. As I see it, the architecture of Vegas would take more time to prepare a frame for the display GPU to finish processing than just doing it all in the CPU in the first place. If it were easy, SCS would have done it a long time ago.
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Define “full screen”.
Encoded file size is determined by the encoding bitrate. A high bitrate makes really high quality, and really large files. A low bitrate makes small files and poor quality. What you want depends mostly on the intended playback device, media and audience.
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LG.
I don’t recall the model, but it was the cheapest.To be honest, I haven’t burned any Blu with it yet.
Steve Mann
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Blue-Ray burners are getting reasonable in price, so you may as well get ahead of the curve and be ready to burn blue.
I did about 6-months ago and today I received my fist client request for Blue Ray. Woohoo.
Steve Mann
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You would get a lot more bang for the buck with a faster processor.
Sony Vegas will work just as well with a $10 display adapter as with a $200 card. No difference.
Version 10 does have CUDA support, and then only when encoding Sony AVCHD, and then it’s only useful for a pathetically slow processor. Even though a dual-core processor was state of the art – ten years ago – it’s still likely that CPU only encoding would be faster than GPU assisted.
There is no preview advantage to the GPU. In my opinion, Vegas doesn’t need it and the architecture of Vegas makes it unlikely that it ever will. (If it were easy, Sony would have done it long ago).
The only consideration would be the requirements of any plug-ins that you may purchase that do use the CUDA processors in the display adapter. Boris Continuum Complete (BCC7) for example uses the CUDA cores if it finds them. Go to their website (https://www.borisfx.com) and see what cards they recommend.
I strongly recommend that you buy a dual-head video card and a second monitor. Once you edit with two monitors, you won’t want to go back to one. (I have four).
Hope This Helps.
Steve Mann
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I recommend against “Green” drives. Some slow down to save energy and all of them spin down after a minute or so of no I/O. Neither is good for video. (OK for backups, though).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I agree with John, but a 5400RPM HDD *is* too slow for editing. And hard-disk drives are too cheap to avoid an upgrade. I just bought two 7200RPM 1Tb Seagates for $69 each at Micro Center.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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