The Horror. Faster Vista renders.

ddm wrote on 2/11/2007, 6:18 PM

Ok, having been intriqued by several of the heated threads here regarding Vista, I decided to do a render test in Vegas 7d since I have Vista installed on my main XP system with Vista Ultimate on a separate drive. Here are my preliminary results, same project, same computer (details to follow on project settings).

Vegas on XP: DV Widescreen AVI 4:01
Vegas on Vista: DV Widescreen AVI 3:46

Vegas on XP: dvd widescreen video stream MC mpg2 : 4:09
Vegas on Vista: dvd widescreen video stream MC mpg2 : 3:49

The project was pretty basic, NTSC DV Widescreen
4 video tracks, no audio, 1 minute in length
3 of the video tracks were hi res jpg's (1600x1200) the other video track was a text media track. I used event motion on all tracks and 2 of the tracks also had track motion. I used keyframed color correction on one of the tracks and there was keyframed motion on the text media track as well as keyframed color adjustments. No video was used. There were fade in and out transitions on all tracks.

Computer used was my main Vegas editing machine, an AMD 3800 X2 with 2 gb RAM, an Nvidia 6600, and 5 internal hard drives (ide and sata mix) I have made no tweaks to Vista, it still has all the default services and whatever else it loads up by default running. I don't have a great deal of tweaks on the XP side, either, but it is a very smooth running XP with minimal background services and programs running. (no antivirus on either machine running at time of renders.

I can't see moving to Vista on a production machine any time soon but I am interested in the truth, whatever it might be.

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jaydeeee wrote on 2/12/2007, 2:10 PM

Vegasnights...Oh, I see
I'll check it out when I get a chance.
(F5 - LOL).

Vista stinks (ok no more - seriously, stop it. It blows).

John_Cline wrote on 2/12/2007, 2:11 PM

For what it's worth, I installed Vista in a dual-boot configuration with XP on my Quad-core machine. I didn't tweak Vista, it's a stock install. The render times for "rendertest.veg" are an identical 14 seconds in both XP and Vista.

John

DrLumen wrote on 2/12/2007, 6:09 PM

I'm surprised that the render times are the same. WIth the extra overhead of Vista, I would have expected it to be slower but at least it is not bad - if any at all.

As to the rest... I don't need Aero. One of the first things I do to an XP system is go back to a classic desktop config and turn off all the eye candy.

I turn off indexing as it only serves to slow things down, take up space (somewhere) for something I don't need. Plus, I guess I'm just used to dealing with large number of files and the directory heirarchy (currently @ ~2TB of files). From my understanding, Vista will not let you save where you want so I guess you need indexing.

I saw someone mention that you could save searches with Vista. You can do that now with XP. Here again, I don't use it in XP but I know it's there.

Oh well, I guess some people like the stuff in Vista. I'm currently loading up Fedora 6 as a dual boot to XP; at least until I can ween myself of M$ entirely.

rmack350 wrote on 2/12/2007, 6:15 PM

I'd like to hear the details of the places you can't save files to...

Rob Mack