Hi all,
After getting next to zero help from Sony tech support, I'm hoping some knowledgeable people on this forum can help me. I'm trying to help my office-mate find a way to speed up video processing in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum v. 9.0B. Current configuration of her computer is here at bottom.
We are wondering if a hardware upgrade from 2 cores to 4 cores will make a significant difference. Sony tech support doesn't provide a lot of guidance:
"I would say it is worth going to 4-cores if using the 64-bit version of Vegas Pro on a 64-bit OS. As you know, Vegas Movie Studio10 is only a 32-bit application and the main roadblock is memory since it can’t use more than 2GB. Having more cores for Vegas Movie Studio10 will still increase performance, but perhaps not significantly."
"perhaps not significantly" is not exactly the sort of confidence level I can act on, especially when the recommended alternative is the $400 cost of upgrading to Vegas Pro.
Does anybody have any direct experience with VMS, switching from two cores to four?
Thanks in advance to those who can provide thoughtful and knowledgeable advice.
Sincerely,
DGLevy
Washington, DC
Current configuration:
--Windows XP 64 bit
--Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz
--Corsair XMS2 1GB (2 x 1 GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400), plus another 1 GB of the exact same model but in 512 MB sticks; total: 3 GB.
--Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
After getting next to zero help from Sony tech support, I'm hoping some knowledgeable people on this forum can help me. I'm trying to help my office-mate find a way to speed up video processing in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum v. 9.0B. Current configuration of her computer is here at bottom.
We are wondering if a hardware upgrade from 2 cores to 4 cores will make a significant difference. Sony tech support doesn't provide a lot of guidance:
"I would say it is worth going to 4-cores if using the 64-bit version of Vegas Pro on a 64-bit OS. As you know, Vegas Movie Studio10 is only a 32-bit application and the main roadblock is memory since it can’t use more than 2GB. Having more cores for Vegas Movie Studio10 will still increase performance, but perhaps not significantly."
"perhaps not significantly" is not exactly the sort of confidence level I can act on, especially when the recommended alternative is the $400 cost of upgrading to Vegas Pro.
Does anybody have any direct experience with VMS, switching from two cores to four?
Thanks in advance to those who can provide thoughtful and knowledgeable advice.
Sincerely,
DGLevy
Washington, DC
Current configuration:
--Windows XP 64 bit
--Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz
--Corsair XMS2 1GB (2 x 1 GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400), plus another 1 GB of the exact same model but in 512 MB sticks; total: 3 GB.
--Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive