Well, just did a neat little project that revealed some interesting results.
I had to put together an appealing promo reel for a community theatre that I'm involved with, giving info about our upcoming season. What a world we live in, where I can do something like this in five hours sitting in a hotel room with a laptop and USB DVD burner.
Anyway, rendering this 6-minute reel (essentially all generated media) to an MPEG-2 stream for DVDA on my P4-2.5GHz notebook took about 2:20 (that's hours and minutes, it was a two-pass render). Didn't finally get to bed until about 3:00 AM, after the DVD was in the can. Oog. And I had to be on the road again by 6:30...
Anyway, after the disc's premiere Friday night I had to make a few changes, and since I had returned home I could do them on my uber-PC--3.2GHz overclocked to 3.52GHz. The identical two-pass render took only 40 minutes.
So, with only a 40% faster CPU, the render task took less than a third of the time. The difference between computers was nowhere near this dramatic with previous versions of Vegas, so clearly hyperthreading makes a significant difference, nearly doubling the difference in CPU speed in this case.
Bottom line: I can find no fault with Vegas' rendering performance. Anyone else having similar speed-demon experiences?
Project specs:
-Five tracks: two for title cards created in Photoshop (PNGs), one track with a Vision Series Sampler background reused numerous times, sometimes time-stretched, a track for the promo stills (gotta get our booking guy to start asking for video clips from acts), and one audio track.
-Transitions on the title card tracks used Pixelan SpiceMaster 2 to extraordinary effect--they literally look like a million bucks, and probably would've been a few years ago.
-Track motion in use for one of the title tracks, allowing for some fancy animated intertitles. Got to pick up Graffiti soon. More TM on the stills track.
-Broadcast Color filter put on the Master, guaranteed to drag any render to its knees.
I had to put together an appealing promo reel for a community theatre that I'm involved with, giving info about our upcoming season. What a world we live in, where I can do something like this in five hours sitting in a hotel room with a laptop and USB DVD burner.
Anyway, rendering this 6-minute reel (essentially all generated media) to an MPEG-2 stream for DVDA on my P4-2.5GHz notebook took about 2:20 (that's hours and minutes, it was a two-pass render). Didn't finally get to bed until about 3:00 AM, after the DVD was in the can. Oog. And I had to be on the road again by 6:30...
Anyway, after the disc's premiere Friday night I had to make a few changes, and since I had returned home I could do them on my uber-PC--3.2GHz overclocked to 3.52GHz. The identical two-pass render took only 40 minutes.
So, with only a 40% faster CPU, the render task took less than a third of the time. The difference between computers was nowhere near this dramatic with previous versions of Vegas, so clearly hyperthreading makes a significant difference, nearly doubling the difference in CPU speed in this case.
Bottom line: I can find no fault with Vegas' rendering performance. Anyone else having similar speed-demon experiences?
Project specs:
-Five tracks: two for title cards created in Photoshop (PNGs), one track with a Vision Series Sampler background reused numerous times, sometimes time-stretched, a track for the promo stills (gotta get our booking guy to start asking for video clips from acts), and one audio track.
-Transitions on the title card tracks used Pixelan SpiceMaster 2 to extraordinary effect--they literally look like a million bucks, and probably would've been a few years ago.
-Track motion in use for one of the title tracks, allowing for some fancy animated intertitles. Got to pick up Graffiti soon. More TM on the stills track.
-Broadcast Color filter put on the Master, guaranteed to drag any render to its knees.