What features of Sony Vegas Pro uses OpenCL

Webhorse wrote on 7/9/2012, 3:41 PM
I invested in the new ATI FirePro V4900 card, but as everyone else, I have GPU acceleration issues, and so far, the only benefit I have is faster GUI and XF rendering. Those are two good things, but hardly what I bought the card

When it comes down to brute rendering, most, if no all, templates are faster with rendering using CPU only.


So my question is, what templates really benefits from using Open CL GPU rendering?

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Webhorse wrote on 7/10/2012, 7:00 AM
Found this myself:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/GPU_power_in_Vegas_Pro_11

"...GPU processing kicks in when you render to the AVC file format (either the Sony AVC or MainConcept AVC). This has been shown to cut render times to these formats quite significantly..."

"...you'll have to first set your computer up with a graphics card that supports the OpenCL standard for GPU and provides at least 512 MB of GPU memory..."

"...While we've worked closely with industry leaders NVIDIA and AMD during our developmental process, Vegas Pro 11 is not limited to working with cards from only these manufacturers..."

since it dont work with ATI V4900, wonder if I can get my money back?
NicolSD wrote on 7/10/2012, 11:58 AM
When it comes to the ATI/AMD cards, I believe support starts with model Radeon HD 5770.
Webhorse wrote on 7/10/2012, 12:55 PM
FirePro using FirePro unified driver 8.85 or newer is supported as well

http://blogs.amd.com/fusion/2012/03/12/accelerate-your-performance-with-amd-firepro™-professional-graphics-and-sony-vegas-pro-11/