new Mac Pro - is it overkill :-) ??

ritsmer wrote on 2/23/2008, 8:43 AM

Planing to buy a new machine I saw the new Mac Pro with 2 x quad 2.8 GHz 45nm Xeons giving a total of 8 CPU's.

It has very fast memory access etc. but I doubt that my VMS (or my Vegas Pro, for that sake) can utilizise all this mouth watering 8 x CPU-power as I see, that Vegas (and VMS) can render with max 4 threads in the current versions (version 8)

What do the experts say??

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Eugenia wrote on 2/23/2008, 12:04 PM

If you have the money for such a system, go for it, and then upgrade to a future version of Vegas that it will be able to take advantage of the whole system.

ritsmer wrote on 2/26/2008, 9:09 AM

Thanks for the answer, Eugenia.

It seems that the Full Vegas can use more than 4 rendering threads - I just found this in the Full Vegas forum:

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Written by: Yarin VooDoo at: 1/12/2008 1:09:02 PM

. Open Vegas
. Click on OPTIONS and, with SHIFT Key pressed, click on PREFERENCES
. The Preferences Windows will open and you could see the INTERNAL TAB, click on it
. In the white box write "threads", you'll see "MAXIMUM VIDEO RENDER THREADS" and the value "4"
. Modify 4 with 8 (or other) and try to work with Vegas to see if there are improvments
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Unfortunately VMS does not seem to have this ability (Shift + Preferences) - so this may be a reason to change to the full Vegas.

However there are also possible problems if the codecs in use can work with more than 4 threads - I am looking forward to play with - ah, sorry, I mean - test this when the new Mac Pro 2 x quad Xeons arrives here :-))