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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 2/5/2014
16 core vs fast i7?
This is a really good question and a really hard one to answer simply. The real question here is which is faster for rendering. The PassMark scores are interesting, but do not necessarily translate to shorter rendering time in Movie Studio. This has a lot to do with how well the software takes advantage of multiple threads (multiple cores) and other CPU optimizations. To make things worse, the answer might be different for each rendering codec. Some codec might be more optimized for a particular CPU architecture. So the question remains: for rendering in Movie Studio, what is best? More cores? Or a smaller number of faster cores? A bonus question: Does this change for VMS 11, 12 and 13? Is the response any different for the 32bit or 64bit version? Few years ago I had spent some time benchmarking rendering time for the same clip on different machines, testing both CPU and GPU rendering combinations. The results below were for rendering 1080-30p AVC. As you can see the i5 performed better despite a slower clock and less cores. The Xeon machine was disappointing, 8 cores didn't translate into much faster rendering. (note, these are physical cores, all systems had hyperthreading enabled) 2 Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores 12.3fps i5 laptop 2.5GHz 2 cores 9.1fps Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz 2 cores 5.8fps So all in all, if I had to choose for my next system, I'd say go with the newest CPU and fastest clock, rather than more cores. Remy
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 6/4/2013
VMS 11 - No GPU available
Ok, thanks. It seems that ver 11 and 12 deal with Cuda differently.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 6/4/2013
VMS 11 - No GPU available
Thank you Markk, good info about your success with the 650ti. Is it with Studio 11 or 12? This is a fresh install of Studio 11 on my machine. However I had two GPU cards during the install, an ATI/AMD 5850 and the Nvidia 660ti. I removed the ATI card, now I'll try o reinstall VMS 11.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 6/4/2013
VMS 11 - No GPU available
By the way, same version of Vegas on the same machine with earlier Nvidia cards (9800GT and 470) did offer GPU rendering using Cuda. This would add to the story that a more recent implementation of Cuda caused the issue. R.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 5/1/2013
Movie titles - Vegas Platinum 12
This is what I am doing, video clip on one track, title on an other. Still, I am having issues properly sizing the title box.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 4/30/2013
Movie titles - Vegas Platinum 12
Thank you for pointing this out. I am playing with this feature. Using the Media Generator / Credit Roll, or the Legacy Text / Soft Shadow. In both cases, it does exactly what I am looking for, except that I can't find a good way to set the size and position of this tinted background. Ideally I'd like it to be a box behind the text covering the entire width of the frame, but not the full height. Any idea or recommendation here? Thank you.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 4/30/2013
Movie titles - Vegas Platinum 12
How do you add drop shadow to your text? Also, how can I add a tinted background behind the text, to darken the video and make the text stand out? I see this a lot in clips edited with iMovie, I couldn't find how to do it with Movie Studio. Thank you, Remy
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 4/30/2013
VMS 11 - cross fade ?
Perfect, thanks for the tip. Remy
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 4/1/2013
GPU Section Criteria
It is actually very difficult to estimate GPU performance for a given card in the context of video encoding. There are some many variables, including internal GPU architecture, drivers and software implementation and so on. Few months ago I spent some time benchmarking video rendering with several different hardware configurations. I used 3 different systems, a Core2 Duo 3.0GHz (2 cores), an i5 2.5GHz laptop (2 cores) and a dual socket Xeon 2.8GHz workstation (8 cores). All systems running Windows 7 64 bits. On the Xeon workstation, I tried 2 different GPU cards. On each systems, I rendered the same clip using CPU only, then GPU. Interesting to note the following observations: 1. Using the same HW config, upgrading from VMS 11 to 12 lead to some noticeable improvements. 2. On the latest Intel chipset, the Intel QuickSync provided very good performance, however the output quality was significantly lower than using CPU only or real GPU. Numbers are provided for information only, but quality was so low than this is not really an option. 3. The 2 GPU cards used on the Xeon workstation are from the same area, similar price point and score very close in game benchmarks. They also scored very close with VMS 11. Didn't get a chance to try the Nvidia 470 with VMS 12 unfortunately. 4. The 8 core Xeon system did not do very well using CPU only. With 4 times the number of cores as the other systems, it only performed about twice as fast. I'd like to try more recent GPUs, but don't want to spend >$300 on a new card to only get a small performance increase. When everything has been said, it still looks like rendering is a batch processing job :-) Appreciate any feedback or additional data about other real world performance benchmark using VMS. System CPU GPU SW Version Render settings Fps Lenovo D20 Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores AMD 5850 Studio 12 CPU only 14.2 Lenovo D20 Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores AMD 5850 Studio 12 GPU if avail 20.3 Lenovo D20 Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores AMD 5850 Studio 11 CPU only 12.3 Lenovo D20 Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores AMD 5850 Studio 11 GPU if avail 17.0 Lenovo D20 Wks Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores Nvidia 470 Studio 11 CPU only 11.8 Lenovo D20 Wks Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHz 8 cores Nvidia 470 Studio 11 GPU if avail 17.4 Lenovo Laptop i5 2 cores Nvidia GT630M Studio 12 CPU only 9.1 Lenovo Laptop i5 2 cores Nvidia GT630M Studio 12 GPU if avail 9.9 Lenovo Laptop i5 2 cores Nvidia GT630M Studio 12 QuickSync Fast 20.5 Lenovo Laptop i5 2 cores Nvidia GT630M Studio 12 QuickSync Quality 13.5 Home Desktop Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz 2 cores Nvidia GF 9800GT Studio 11 CPU only 5.8 Home Desktop Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz 2 cores Nvidia GF 9800GT Studio 11 GPU if avail 7.5 Remy
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 12/28/2011
Saving titles for future projects
Sorry but I might still need help on this one. I have the title on the Text track as part of one project. It also show up as an object in the media bin. But I can't seem to copy it over to an other project. Any tip for this? Thank you,
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 12/28/2011
Saving titles for future projects
Thank you for this. There is no way to save these titles in such a way that they are available for any new project? You always have to import them from an older project?
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 12/28/2011
VMS11 - Time lapse photography
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll test and confirm it is working as described.
Remyx
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