Quad Core timings for AVI to Mpeg

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 11/25/2007, 7:34 AM

Have just taken delivery of a Q6600(2.4Ghz), 2G RAM, Asus MB & Nvideo cards

I ran some test to check it against me old trusty 2.7Ghz P4 machine and have the following timings
All done on V7, V8 seems to take a few seconds longer for some reason.

(AVI on a an external USB2 drive)

On 2.6Ghz P4, 2G RAM
Clip length 3.23s AVI to Mpeg takes 35.59s
(seems realy slow to me)

Q6600
Clip length 3.23s AVI to Mpeg takes 1.54s

A normal wedding edited last year and took about 5 hours to render, with all effects etc
Clip length 1.57.07s to Mpeg 1h.54m

an amazing time difference in the render dept now,

I can overclock by 15% and get the 120 seconds render for the HDV test (2.77GHz) on a diffrent post.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=561449

Comments

DJPadre wrote on 11/25/2007, 9:13 AM

Ud render faster if you were using 1 drive to read and one drive to write.. even faster if writing to a raid and reading from almost anything else. Thing with vegas is that I have always founf its MPG render to be dead slow.. compared to Main Concept standalone encoder, its at least 3 to 4 times slower. With Main concept, i constantly get 60 to 80 fps render times on a single core 3.0 with 1gb ram reading and writing to different drives.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 11/25/2007, 11:12 AM

Be aware that size of the dynamic ram preview has a significant impact to total render time, on a Q6600 2.4 Ghz. See here:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=561964&Replies=5

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 11/25/2007, 1:59 PM

Just read that before I got here, wish I knew this earlier
Will look at it on Monday and see what difference it makes and if I get re-post timings.

Grazie wrote on 11/25/2007, 2:20 PM

I always render to and from separate drives. For example my latest was a render FORM Drive L and TO drive F via firewire. Very fast indeed.

NickHope wrote on 11/26/2007, 4:31 AM

I got a 7.5 x speed increase when I upgraded from P43.0C to Q6600.

DJPadre wrote on 11/26/2007, 6:10 AM

Nick your giving me Hope.. lol

rs170a wrote on 11/26/2007, 6:14 AM

I went from 3 hr. on a 10 min. piece (lots of chromakey and other assorted FX) on a P4 3.4 GHz to 28 min. with my quad core.
A 1 hr. 40 min. project I finished last week (only a few FX) rendered to MPEG-2 in 58 min.

Mike

byGeorge wrote on 11/26/2007, 6:15 AM

I got 7.3X from P4 3.0Ghz to Q6600.

George

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 11/26/2007, 3:55 PM

I tried upping my Preview Ram (was 500Mb) to 750Mb, and the render took longer, then went to 250Mb it got faster and then set it to zero and got a whole 10 seconds faster, this is opposite to the other post, who got faster render times.