Oooh flip I’ve been down this road, replace this then replace that. Switch the card from 16bit to 32bit for this ap, at the end you have 2 PC’s like a Twilight two release moment do we really need 2 pieces of crap.

I want to make a short film based on the style of Deep impact and The Core where carefully placed explosives are used to sort out really serious problems
This guy places small amounts of C-4 on his power supply two blobs on his Graphics card and a large helping on his CPU.
He sets them off in perfect timed sequences, his screen flashes, Vegas fires up, people cheer hug, tears flow……….. If only.

> "Is there a way to disable the Nvidia board without removing it? Vegas 12 seemed to run fine on the built-in video that came with the computer (Intel HD)."

Do you have the Intel HD graphics disabled in the BIOS now that you have the NVIDIA card? Only one should be active and having them both enabled might be what's locking Vegas up.

> "ll this tech stuff is brutal for a director/editor. I now know WAY more about the inside of computer than I ever wanted to - and it still is not working."

Now you know why the entire movie industry is Mac based. There is a beautiful simplicity to having your hardware builder and OS builder be the same company. ;-)

~jr

>>>My EVGA GeForce GTX 660ti is working fine with VP 12.0 in my it-3770k (not overclocked). Using the Main Concept MP4 template, there is no difference in elapsed time for "CPU only", "Open CL", and "CUDA" for my typical render (1920 x 1080 60i source, lots of chromakey effect). I did have to move up to the Beta 310.33 Nvidia driver.<<<<

This is very disappointing. I had this card in shipping assuming that it was going to give me a nice boost with all those CUDA cores. I've got an i7-2600 so I'm assuming it's not terribly slower than what you have. I've heard that GTX 570 cards do pack some punch for rendering. I'm not sure whether Vegas just isn't taking advantage of the card or if, as reported, the 600 series is just no better than the 500 series and less reliable.

Quadro is it.

Sony says: “NVIDIA recommends NVIDIA Quadro for professional applications and recommends use of the latest boards based on the Fermi architecture.”
A look at Nvidia.com tells me all GeForce cards are made for gamers, and only the older ones are Fermi based, while the Quadro line is directed at manufacturing, media and entertainment, sciences, and energy. It seems the real question for a Vegas user is which Quadro card.

@ TheLaw

I should point out that it is Boris BCC8 chromakey that sees no improvement with GPU on. Other MC MP4 renders do benefit, and all previews definitely benefit from the 660ti.

This points out the need for a uniform test as independent users post their results here - plugins, and many other factors affect render times.

Vegas 12, with the 660ti in the non-overclocked 3770k, Rendertest-2010 runs in 43 seconds.

With a 560ti in an i7-950, it ran in 50 seconds.

dxdy - many thanks for sharing what you can, truly. Yes, we need shared information since Sony isn't providing any details about what different cards will do using a stock Vegas 12 install.

I definitely need MP4 rendering. With the numbers you're posting, it would suggest that a 660ti might be close to the equivalent of a 560ti - 570 performing Rendertest. I know mileage may vary depending upon what you're rendering but at least we're starting somewhere in an attempt to benchmark.

> "It seems the real question for a Vegas user is which Quadro card"

The Quadro 4000 seems to be the sweet spot as far as price/performance goes. Yea the 5000 is a bit faster but it cost twice as much and it is not twice as fast. It only has 352 CUDA cores compared to the 4000's 256 CUDA cores so I couldn't see spending double for it. I'm really happy with my Quadro 4000 and it has performed flawless with Vegas Pro 12.0.

~jr

Johnny do you have Boris Blue if so how is the Quadro 4000 handling it?

@Johny :

I also have a couple of nvidia quadro 4000s in my workstation .
What drivers do you have installed , I am still using the older ones ( think 296 something ) .

I have the Quadro FX3800 on one of my PC’s OK for Boris Red 04 but not 05 or Boris Blue.

I have a hard time believing that any Vegas 12 works flawlessly anywhere.

Is this an exaggeration? Do you work on 2 hour projects? Do you work with AVCHD footage?

Seems like a simplified generalization. There are known problems with V12 which make it far from flawless.

> "What drivers do you have installed , I am still using the older ones ( think 296 something ) ."

I'm using the 305.93-quadro-tesla-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql drivers.

~jr

> "Is this an exaggeration? Do you work on 2 hour projects? Do you work with AVCHD footage? "

I spent 3 hrs the other day working on a project that was a 1 hr 11 min long without any problems. I am working with HDV footage. Haven't tried it with AVCHD yet (I don't shoot that too much)

~jr

I see. I don't have to tell you the differences because you most likely know but... AVCHD is usually more demanding on Vegas than HDV likely to cause more problems in Vegas. I can't speak for the other formats out there because as of late I am all AVCHD.

BTW your Boris RED tutorials rock. If you are the same person.