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OldSmoke wrote on 10/24/2014, 10:26 AM
As for video cards, stick to Nvidia's 500 series, AMD/ATI 6970 or R9 270, 280, 290. None of the newer Nvidia cards will be as good.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

John222 wrote on 10/24/2014, 10:27 AM
I would say CPU speed and ram. Personally, I upgraded from on board video to a good mid level video card and seen very little improvement. SSD memory is very expensive. If your going to be rendering to uncompressed intermediate files, you will be out of memory quick.
OldSmoke wrote on 10/24/2014, 10:58 AM
BTW. What kind of source footage do you intend to work with and what is your delivery format?

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

riredale wrote on 10/24/2014, 11:54 AM
For VP11 the system requirements are for a minimum of 2GB ram with 4GB recommended.

Also I don't know why one would ever render to an uncompressed format. Uncompressed video is just gigantic and there are several compressed intermediaries that are virtually transparent.

I have never used VP11 but from what I hear on this board most any CPU will work but buying a powerful multi-core CPU will considerably shorten render times if that's important to your workflow.
Wendy Busse wrote on 10/24/2014, 7:01 PM
The footage is primarily from my Canon DSLR (.mov extension) and I render to .mp4 (Internet HD 720p).
Wendy Busse wrote on 10/24/2014, 7:03 PM
So 8 GB of RAM should be more than enough. Will 16, 24 or 32 improve it any better?
John222 wrote on 10/25/2014, 6:04 AM
"Also I don't know why one would ever render to an uncompressed format. Uncompressed video is just gigantic and there are several compressed intermediaries that are virtually transparent."

Cause I'm sending them to Mocha Pro or Hitfilm to add effects or stabilize. Sometimes dshaker and usually use Lagarith or dnxhd.