my amd radeon 7 is not accelerating hevc from hero 7 black (4k 60p). my laptops 6 core 4.5ghz and nvidia 2060 is not accelerating it either. am i doing anything wrong?

I know there were some driver issues with AMD holding up support there, but the Nvidia card should be working. Make sure you have the latest creator (not game ready) driver from Nvidia installed.

my amd radeon 7 is not accelerating hevc from hero 7 black (4k 60p). my laptops 6 core 4.5ghz and nvidia 2060 is not accelerating it either. am i doing anything wrong?

It's the video decode box in task manager that should show activity with timeline playback. I don't have vegas17, so this is not showing it working.

The RTX 2080 Ti seems to be the best choice at the moment.

There's also the SUPER series of RTX cards that just dropped.

my amd radeon 7 is not accelerating hevc from hero 7 black (4k 60p). my laptops 6 core 4.5ghz and nvidia 2060 is not accelerating it either. am i doing anything wrong?

Make sure that nvenc is selected in the preferences under file i/o tab.

On my computer, Vegas was default to Intel QSV even though my cpu doesn't have integrated GPU.

It looks like that Vegas doesn't detect the GPU on launch and automatically set up the right option.

What CPU do you have?

Video Decode: Intel QSV, NVIDIA NVDEC

Video Encode: AMD VCE, Intel QSV, NVIDIA NVENC

AMD support always lags Intel and Nvidia. Maybe they'll add it in an update (like VCE/NVENC Encoding in VP15).

CPU doesn't matter. Only AMD APUs have iGPUs, and the NLE will only support VCE Encode Acceleration on them.

The new "Lossless Intermediate" format they have requires specific NVIDIA hardware...

Though no where on the website (that I could find) is it specified exactly what specific hardware is required.

Don't need a Super GPU for VEGAS, since the NVENC/NVDEC is external to the actual GPU chip itself (just on the same board). Most VEGAS Effects are DirectX/OpenFX Effects that use OpenGL/OpenCL. So you will gain something with a more powerful GPU... but not nearly as much as if the effects were CUDA-based/optimized (at which point you want to go with a higher end GPU for the CUDA Cores, etc.).

That being said, Resolve's ResolveFX are real-time on HEVC footage on a laptop with a GTX1050 (not Ti), on top of Resolves much heftier GPU requirements... so, you'd really need to justify the cost with real-world productivity gains before out the kind of cash those high end GPUs cost.

@fr0sty "I know there were some driver issues with AMD holding up support there, but the Nvidia card should be working. Make sure you have the latest creator (not game ready) driver from Nvidia installed."

Do you know if there are 2 flavors of drivers for AMD as well (something like gamer/creator)? I haven't seen any such.

Thank you everyone for helping me out (on my first post!)

Considering my workflow demands (5 streams of 1080p @ 60 FPS, 8 tracks audio) as outlined in the OP, I’m leaning towards the RTX 2080 Super/2070 Super. Also previous AMD driver issues in previous builds leaves me with a feeling of deja vu.

comments/warnings?

Thank you again.

can someone with hero 7 black 4k 60p test nvidia card timeline playback and post results how its performing (used or not used with % of GPU and CPU) Thank you My radeon 7 is used about 20% and cpu 55-80% which is more then in V16 and can playback between 30-60fps but its a bit glitchy and jumpy... multicam with hero 7 4k/60p and nx1 4k/30p its a crawl of like 1fps and gpu is not used for some reason. Premiere pro can handle dual cam buttersmooth of above setup at about 30% cpu usage and 7% GPU. just can't stand premieres pro layout specially working with sound

Went wth the Rtx2070 super. Will report after install and testing.