Increasing rendering speeds?

greg-parker wrote on 6/4/2016, 12:14 PM

All other things being equal will MSP13 benefit from true solid state drives as far as rendering speed?

From my old days with Vegas Pro I always used a three drive setup OS and Vegas on one, reading from another and writing to a third.

If solid state drives would help; where willl it help on the drive with MSP13 or the reading and writing drives or all three?

And is there any video card that is now thought to help much?

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Eagle Six wrote on 6/4/2016, 1:53 PM

Hi parkqt,

Here is a link to an article which may be helpful to address your video card question https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/SonyVideoCards.htm. I have an old Nvidia GeForce GTX460 card which does speed up rendering time for Sony AVC/MVC and MainConcept AVC/AAC renders (shorter times with the Sony AVC). However the quality of the rendered video is always better when I use CPU only, it just takes more time. Preview speed, depending on the source media and FX's, the video card sometimes helps, sometimes not!!

I'm still on mechanical drives, but if I did a replacement with an SSD, it would be for the operating system and program files, I would keep my mechanical drives, and as you, I pull source from one and write render to the other.

Other members here I'm sure have extensive experience with first hand recommendations on the drive setup.

Best Regards.....George

musicvid10 wrote on 6/4/2016, 2:33 PM

Short answer, no.

Chienworks wrote on 6/4/2016, 10:49 PM

In fact, using separate source & destination drives barely speeds up the process either. The bottleneck is overwhelmingly CPU cycles. Drive speed, even the old mechanical ones, is vastly greater than how fast the CPU can crunch through the video. I pretty much always render to the same drive the source is on and it only takes a fraction of a percent longer than using a second drive.