Hello, would anybody know if Vegas Pro supports AV1 GPU Encoding in any capacity; in any version(s)? I cannot find any recent information on this. Thanks.
I believe it's only decoding at present though don't have a GPU that's capable of encoding it to confirm.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/update-vegas-pro-21-build-187--143338/
New Features:
@Resoula The answer is probably no. I observed no Nvenc/Intel/AMD/ HW encoding activity in TM.
For a 27s UHD test clip that takes 26.53 seconds in VP to render it takes 7.39 seconds using ffmpeg with Nvenc HW encoding.
That's a 3.6 x speed increase to output.
However when I also did an ffmpeg CPU render it took 45 seconds.
~ similar data rate/size for the 3 output files.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/update-vegas-pro-21-build-187--143338/
New Features:
- AV1 decoding
- AV1 rendering
Doesn't this only mean you can render to AV1, not that it is GPU encoding?
@Resoula The answer is probably no. I observed no Nvenc/Intel/AMD/ HW encoding activity in TM.
For a 27s UHD test clip that takes 26.53 seconds in VP to render it takes 7.39 seconds using ffmpeg with Nvenc HW encoding.
That's a 3.6 x speed increase to output.
However when I also did an ffmpeg CPU render it took 45 seconds.
~ similar data rate/size for the 3 output files.
Thanks! That sounds pretty evident. This answers my question. I will keep my eyes out eagerly awaiting further news on this topic.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/update-vegas-pro-21-build-187--143338/
New Features:
- AV1 decoding
- AV1 rendering
Doesn't this only mean you can render to AV1, not that it is GPU encoding?
That's the part that wasn't clear to me. It certainly sounds like it is CPU-only. Sounds like I will need a Vegas 23, or 24 one day for this. Thankfully HEVC is working just fine.
Tried av1 hardware encoding on a laptop & 2 desktops. Here's my experience:
12900h/3060/IrisXe: ffmpeg7: av1-nvenc fail, av1_qsv fail;; voukouder: av1-nvenc _ av1-qsv unavailable
11900k/6900xt/4090: ffmpeg7: av1-nvenc AOK, av1_amf fail;; voukouder: av1-nvenc AOK av1-amf unavailable
11900k/6900xt/uhd750: ffmpeg7: av1-qsv fail;; voukouder: av1-qsv unavailable
9900k/Radeon7/a380: ffmpeg7: av1-amf fail, av1_qsv AOK;; voukouder: av1-qsv AOK av1-amf unavailable
The free Voukoder plugin for Vegas seems 100% in agreement with ffmpeg7 in displaying only av1 hardware encoding that actually works. Don't know if the uhd770 might support av1-qsv but my uhd750 definitely does not. Amd is apparently not supported by ffmpeg7 even though it displays support for the encoder and tries to run it. It does the same thing on my laptop displaying support for av1 nvenc & qsv. Voukoder seems to know better.
FWIW I can encode to AV1 using ffmpeg and VP.
Using VP: only via CPU.
Using ffmpeg: Using CPU and ..GPU's ... Intel, AMD and Nvenc using older "PC 1" and main "PC 2". See signature.
I'm not sure I know what I'm doing but on my i9-13980HX / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, I changed the Voukoder default template to "AV1 (NVIDIA NVENC)" and the render seemed to work just fine.
...Jerry
FWIW I can encode to AV1 using ffmpeg and VP.
Using VP: only via CPU.
Using ffmpeg: Using CPU and ..GPU's ... Intel, AMD and Nvenc using older "PC 1" and main "PC 2". See signature.
@johnny-s I didn't realize there was an av1 difference between the 6900 and 7900 series Amd gpus. Apparently the 6900 can only decode while the 7900 can decode and encode:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/desktops/radeon/6000-series/amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt.html
https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/desktops/radeon/7000-series/amd-radeon-rx-7900xt.html