Need faster rendering

RgVideo wrote on 11/4/2022, 12:23 PM

Looking for some advice.

Currently using a Win 7 laptop as a "daily driver" with MSP16. It has an i5/2.7 GHz CPU with 16 GB of RAM. Don't really want to change because it's too much work to reinstall programs and transfer data. I intend to stick with this machine, so don't try to change my mind.:) I don't want a separate video computer, because I like to use my laptop for everything from my easy chair.

Been doing more video editing recently and it's taking a long time to render. Example: About 11:00 to render a 2:25 1920x1080 video.

Been thinking about getting a Win10 (or 11) mini PC, installing Vegas Pro 19 (already have it), and putting it beside my easy chair. Would only hookup an existing keyboard and monitor to get it started and leave it on all day. I'd operate it remotely from my Win7 laptop with Windows Remote and an Ethernet cable. I've already tried this remote idea with VP on an old laptop (same hardware specs as Win7 daily unit) running Win10 using WiFi. Works but WiFi has too much delay. Ethernet should be better. Looking at spending under $400 for a mini PC.

My 8 year old Toshiba laptop has a 3rd generation i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz, with 2 Cores. A possible choice for a mini PC has 8th generation 4-core Intel i5-8257U (?? GHz). I found a performance comparison between the 2, and the 8th gen is significantly faster.

One concern is the difference in my laptop screen resolution (1366x768) and the mini-PC (likely higher). I'm just trying to make videos for YouTube and Instagram, not real high resolution ones.

So, is this feasible or am I crazy? :)

Thanks,
Ralph

Comments

FayFen wrote on 11/4/2022, 1:11 PM

I know you do want to listen to reason, but 8 years old laptop is on it way to .... the hardware has it's limits with the heat and video is most demanding.

How many programs you have? really need them all? consolidate and get new .

Most of my programs are portable so they don't need to be installed on any system, they just there on a different partition.

Dexcon wrote on 11/5/2022, 7:51 AM

If you want to use Vegas Pro 19/20 on a new computer, the recommended specifications for VP19/20 are: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/specifications/#productMenu I think that only the last build of VP19 had official W11 compatibility.

I'd operate it remotely from my Win7 laptop with Windows Remote and an Ethernet cable.

Why would you want to do that? If you've got a new computer, why wouldn't you access Vegas Pro, or any other app/program for that matter, directly from that new computer rather than from an aged piece of technology? Remote access is an understandable process if the two computers are 100s of kms apart, but are they?

If you are set on using your existing aged computer's technology, then stick with the software programs contemporaneous with the era of that computer.

jetdv wrote on 11/5/2022, 8:09 AM

We have a computer at church that we edit our church service on. As it takes time to render, I then remotely access that computer in the afternoon to do everything that's needed after the edit (upload the file to the TV Station and burn a DVD). That is easily done remotely. However, I would never attempt to edit the program remotely. There's just too much delay. Press the spacebar to stop the playback at an exact spot, oops... it didn't stop at that spot. Timing would be terribly off when accessed remotely.