Use Nvidia hardware Mpeg4 encoder in Vegas Pro?

Alkaline wrote on 4/24/2016, 1:43 PM

My Nvidia graphics card has a pretty decent Mpeg4 hardware encoder. Is it possible to use this as the rendering output in Vegas Pro (or Movie Studio)? Thanks

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john_dennis wrote on 4/24/2016, 2:30 PM

If your NVidia card is based on Fermi architecture, then "yes" for what it's worth in terms of performance. You should read this thread and all the embedded links.

I generally don't use GPU encoding in Vegas Pro. I'm getting too old for this $#lT!

Alkaline wrote on 4/24/2016, 2:59 PM

I didn't really mean running the software encoder on the GPU, I meant passing the video stream to the hardware encoder that's on the card.

My card is quite new so it doesn't support the old stuff. You would think Sony would have updated the software to work with the newer APIs by now :/

OldSmoke wrote on 4/24/2016, 3:20 PM

You haven't said what make and model your graphic card is.

john_dennis wrote on 4/24/2016, 3:25 PM

"[I]I didn't really mean running the software encoder on the GPU, I meant passing the video stream to the hardware encoder that's on the card.[/I]"

Try this workflow. It will give you good results.

Mike Cox wrote on 4/25/2016, 10:15 AM

Sony Vegas does not support the NVENC encoder chip on the NVidia GPUs. The NVENC chip does hardware based encoding of MP4 and on the GTX 960, 970 & 980 H.265 without using CUDA.