Does video card speed affect Vegas speed?

DWhitevidman wrote on 7/1/2010, 6:57 PM

I have a quad Intel motherboard with built in video. I just added a Blu-ray burner to burn a HD Wedding video. However my video is not high enough resolution to view the video, so I need to add a video card.

My question is, I'm not a gamer so high end cards are not important to me, but, will a faster video card speed up render speeds or speed up the thumbnails updating when I move the timeline?

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Cliff Etzel wrote on 7/1/2010, 7:03 PM

Speed up render - not at this time.

Vegas is totally dependent on CPU speed. Until Vegas is GPU aware, all you can do is upgrade your CPU or edit DI's to improve performance.

I'm going to speculate only: Given that the latest Vegas Movie Studio that was just released has limted GPU features, I'm guessing the next version of Vegas is going to be GPU aware and I would plan accordingly. I have an nVidia GT-220 1GB card, nothing fancy but it does what I need it to do. It has a DVI port and an HDMI port I've attached a small 720p HDTV mapped for the preview window

HTH,

Cliff Etzel
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DWhitevidman wrote on 7/3/2010, 3:45 PM

Thanks for your reply and the info. Looks like I can spend under $70 and get a card that will way outperform my on board video and allow me to use my HD tv for output, that will be nice.

Thanks again.

farss wrote on 7/3/2010, 4:29 PM

Actually even in its current form Vegas does use some of the smarts on the video card. This was confirmed in one of SCS's webinars.
I suspect this is limited to what is fed to the secondary display device e.g. de-interlacing and color management.

Bob.