Vegas, Mac Pro and Magic Bullet

vitalforce wrote on 7/2/2007, 9:04 AM
I have posted that my render time with Vegas 7.0e for a feature-length SD-DV project dropped from 27 hours to 1 hour 5 minutes on a new quad Mac Pro running XP Pro SP2 on Boot Camp. One caveat: Last night I added my favorite effect from the Magic Bullet HD plugin in Vegas to all tracks for a final "look" for the film. Render time on that one is 5 hours 5 minutes.

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bruceo wrote on 7/2/2007, 12:00 PM
Am I correct in assuming that is good? I have some 2 minute pieces that might have 30 secs worth of filters MB and misfire and just that 30 secs changes the HDV render from 20 minutes to 4-10hrs
vitalforce wrote on 7/7/2007, 10:32 PM
(Sorry about the late answer, I was out of town)

Not proficient on these things, I'm a writer-director, but just read that the Magic Bullet HD plugins of the 2.0 vesion are much faster. For now I have the "stock" plugins that came with Vegas, but I note that other threads in the past have commented on a tremendous increase in render time with Magic Bullet plugins. I would call that "good" in the sense that it shouldn't be unexpected, especially if you have an older generation system, translation pre-core2duo.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 7/9/2007, 8:48 AM
bruceo, only the looksuite is GPU accelerated, the misfire plugin is still all CPU powered, so you'll see some horrendous renders comin off of a misfire clip. Also mb deartifactor is prettys CPU intensive, but it sure does a nice job when you've got to P/C into a clip and want to make things look a little nicer, saved my butt once when I had to use a shot from a camera that totally blew a zoom in.

Dave