Not sure where to post this but I have Vegas Pro 10 on a Quad Core 2 machine 8gb ram running Windows 10. I got an upgrade offer to 19 and to 20 but not sure either of those will be supported on this machine. Any information on this?
Look at the specifications for Vegas 20....
It just says recommended not what is required.
Do the upgrade and buy one of these.
Otherwise, leave it alone.
It just says recommended not what is required.
True... why do you think they say "recommended"? You did not ask if were they supported on your machine?
I am using vegas 19 with 4gb ram, win 10 and a q6600 core2quad. works perfect, in fact vegas is the best NLE for ancient computers. Pair it with a capable video card and you will apply effects and render via gpu with no problem.
@steve-rode download the trial version of VP20 and judge for yourself how it performs. You can't render more than a couple of minutes, but you can do any type of editing you want. See if it meets your requirements for editing.
I am using vegas 19 with 4gb ram, win 10 and a q6600 core2quad. works perfect, in fact vegas is the best NLE for ancient computers. Pair it with a capable video card and you will apply effects and render via gpu with no problem.
Is Vegas 19 edit comparable to the old vegas pro and is it a purchase or subscription?
It’s light-years ahead of 10, permanent.
Is Vegas 19 edit comparable to the old vegas pro and is it a purchase or subscription?
Vegas Pro 19 is not available for purchase from Magix since August 10, 1922, the day that Vegas Pro 20 was released.
Well, I just ordered it - the offer popped up when I opened Vegas 10 and I used the link to order it
... the offer popped up when I opened Vegas 10 and I used the link to order it
On opening Vegas Pro 13, a Vegas Pro 19 offer popped up - 49.99 Euros valid until 11 July 2023. Same when opening Vegas Pro 11 on my laptop but the offer is $49.99 USD.
Apologies @steve-rode
I'm surprised.
Enjoy!
Is Vegas 19 edit comparable to the old vegas pro and is it a purchase or subscription?
Is much better because you gain GPU render, just use the GPU to render and is like you have bought a new computer.
The VEGAS Edit 19 Upgrade offer (in the screengrab from mark-y) is a one-time purchase (perpetual license, not a subscription).
Well I updated to 19 this morning and rendered and old project file from Vegas 9 and it worked fine, no bugs! Took a long time but no longer than it would have before. Not sure if hardware accelleration is set as default, but i'll update that if not and maybe update to a faster video card. The motherboard is PCI2 so that may be the limiter, it showed mid 90s for cpu utilization and only 1gb of my ram being used which was a bit surprising on the ram. (New user name BTW, password problems on the old one so create a new account).
Well I updated to 19 this morning and rendered and old project file from Vegas 9 and it worked fine, no bugs! Took a long time but no longer than it would have before. Not sure if hardware accelleration is set as default, but i'll update that if not and maybe update to a faster video card. The motherboard is PCI2 so that may be the limiter, it showed mid 90s for cpu utilization and only 1gb of my ram being used which was a bit surprising on the ram. (New user name BTW, password problems on the old one so create a new account).
NO PCI speed is not an issue when rendering, probably your card is not capable of hardware rendering or you have not used it in the final render. Try t instal voukcoder to see if you can make a render using the gpu. I am using an AMD RX460 2gb, you need a "relative" modern card to use the GPU render. GPU render is near 10X faster than cpu render in our older chips.
Well I updated to 19 this morning and rendered and old project file from Vegas 9 and it worked fine, no bugs! Took a long time but no longer than it would have before. Not sure if hardware accelleration is set as default, but i'll update that if not and maybe update to a faster video card. The motherboard is PCI2 so that may be the limiter, it showed mid 90s for cpu utilization and only 1gb of my ram being used which was a bit surprising on the ram. (New user name BTW, password problems on the old one so create a new account).
NO PCI speed is not an issue when rendering, probably your card is not capable of hardware rendering or you have not used it in the final render. Try t instal voukcoder to see if you can make a render using the gpu. I am using an AMD RX460 2gb, you need a "relative" modern card to use the GPU render. GPU render is near 10X faster than cpu render in our older chips.
Its a GT730 video card. It looks like voukoder will work with this card- worth a try, thanks!
@supergafudo, I installed voukoder and the link program in my vegas folder and when rendering I see the GPU is only intermitently being used @ 15% but mostly zero - GPU rendering with the GT730 is turned on in Vegas 19. CPU is high 90s and RAM is still a bit over 1gb and the frame rate rendering isn't really any faster. Should I be seeing higher GPU usage or is there something else I need to do in the rendering?
Are you looking at encoding usage in Windows Task Manager/performance? Are you using a render template with NVENC?
@supergafudo, I installed voukoder and the link program in my vegas folder and when rendering I see the GPU is only intermitently being used @ 15% but mostly zero - GPU rendering with the GT730 is turned on in Vegas 19. CPU is high 90s and RAM is still a bit over 1gb and the frame rate rendering isn't really any faster. Should I be seeing higher GPU usage or is there something else I need to do in the rendering?
GPU rendering is superfast, you will notice the first time you use it. Try to render via voukoder a video with no effects, just change the format and select the correct render template in voukoder, make sure it used the gpu, you need to select it inside voukoder. GPU encoding is limited to some formats llike H.264 or H.265 depending on your GPU internals.