Terje A. bergesen
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There is no doubt that a dual core CPU is faster than a HT CPU. There is also no doubt that running two threads for rendering in Vegas on a dual core CPU will be faster than running one thread. Also, if you set the number of threads to 4, I would assume that Vegas will use 4 threads for rendering, not two, no matter what your CPU design is, how many cores it has and whether it is hyper threaded or not.
My computer is still very old, it doesn’t have Hyper Threading and it isn’t Dual Core. I have not tested Vegas threading at all, but I have been playing with some video programming on my own that is similar in work load to rendering video. Splitting the work into 2-4 threads, depending on the size of the video file, gives me a good speed boost even though I do not have two cores nor do my CPU support hyper threading.
If you have a dual core CPU I would expect that using 2-4 threads would be a little low for rendering, having 6-8 seems reasonable, but then again, I have not tried this with Vegas.
Even though rendering is very CPU bound, it is also disk bound and memory bound since we are dealing with a large amount of data. Running multiple threads for rendering, no matter what your CPU architecture, should therefore increase rendering speed no matter what. Too many threads of course is not a good idea though, since the OS will spend more time switching between threads than actually running them.
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Just curious, why would it only use two threads? One CPU can, and should to take max advantage of it, run multiple threads during rendering.
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Looks fine. For video editing your graphics card is (almost) irrelevant.
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Just out of curiosity, since you have the DVD and it is probably not copy protected since it is in-house made, why not just rip the DVD and work with the MPEG stream? You will see less quality than if you pass it through the cam I would expect.
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I may ask the guys in Norway to send me the movies and camcorder again and recapture in Vegas. The Pinnacle stuff has been a pain, and it looks like all of the audio is out of sync. I only had access to the movies for a short while while I had visitors here, and just captured all I could in a hurry. Since it was a PAL Video8 camcorder I couldn’t get it to work passthrough with my NTSC DV camcorder, so I bought this Pinnacle card and captured everything in a hurry with Studio 9… Seems it would be best to do it all again 🙂 Oh well…
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Sadly recapturing is not possible, the originals have gone back to Norway, and I will not be able to get my hands on those for a while.
I am a little surprised that Vegas can not determine the video stream since any other application I have on my PC can. I can play them in Windows Media Player, I can edit them in ULead Media Studio Pro, I can edit them in Windows Movie Maker and I can edit them in ULead Video Studio. Why is it that Vegas can not decode what the other applications can?
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I am a big fan of the “professional” line of computers from Alienware (not the gaming line). They look good and peform very well. Closest thing to purpose-built computers.
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But the cut thing feature is really usefull especially in MediaStudio Pro 7.
Sure it is, but all NLEs have this feature, and the Vegas feature is so much better than Media Studio Pro.
Have you tried the latest version of Media Studio?
I used the latest version until May of this year.
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The loading time of Vegas 6 is far slower than Media Studio Pro 7 Try Media Studio Pro 8 I think it will be finished… or not…
Others have commented on the startup time, but I will add mine to it. I only do amateur stuff, so I do not need the Media Manager. Startup time for Vegas is therefore every bit as fast for me as it is with ULead.
and Trimming in Vegas 6 is such a pain… unlike in Media Studio Pro 7
This is another area where I think one could say that you are wrong, and simply do not know Vegas. As I said, I have used Ulead Media Studio for a long time, and scrubbing and trimming in Media Studio is a pain compared to Vegas. Both the Vegas trimmer and trimming directly on the timeline is far easier with Vegas than with ULead. In Ulead I found that I all the time used the mouse to cut a clip, and then forgot to uncheck the cut button, which means that the next time I went to move a clip I inadvertently cut it, easy to undo with Ctrl+Z, but pressing Ctrl+Z all the bloody time is a real pain. Never happens in Vegas.
Also, don’t get me started about scrubbing.
Finally, cropping in ULead is not hard, it is nigh impossible. The key-framer window is so small as to be completely useless, pre-viewing on a smaller-than-stamp sized window is not feasible. This is another one of the things ULead has been made aware of for years, and rumor has it that it is fixed in v8, but it should have been fixed in v6.