Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0
by Rick Altizer on Sep 22, 2012 at 8:44:49 pm
Please let me know what graphics card you are using and if it works with Sony's GPU acceleration. There is no approved list anywhere and it would be good to hear who's using what... and what cards actually work!!!
I have the GeForce GTX560 and that card DOES NOT work with Vegas. Vegas won't even load with the card in the system. Stalls at "Initializing GPU Accelerated video processing."
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by Steve Rhoden on Sep 22, 2012 at 8:52:34 pm
"Please let me know what graphics card you are using and if it works with Sony's GPU acceleration."
Sorry Rick, i cant help you on that one....Im not using any
GPU graphics card on my Vegas 10 editing system. I am stress
free avoiding Vegas 11 in that jumbled GPU pain...lol
Others here can Advise you on some.
Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader) Film Editor & Compositor. Filmex Creative Media. 1-876-832-4956
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by John Rofrano on Sep 22, 2012 at 10:12:04 pm
I'm using an NVIDIA Quadro 4000 with Vegas Prop 11.0 (Build 683) 64-bit with the 305.93 Quadro 64-bit drivers on Windows 7 64-bit and it works fine. In fact, it's creaming fast and the GPU acceleration increased my renders from HDV to AVC/H.264 by 200%!!! :)
I think it's important for people to also include their driver version and OS version with the GPU version because it might make the difference between working and not working.
Let me start a template for others to follow:
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
Drivers: 305.93
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Status: Working
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by John Rofrano on Sep 23, 2012 at 2:54:56 pm
[Rick Altizer]"Have you been working with the Beta?"
If anyone was... they probably couldn't tell you because most Non Disclosure Agreements include not disclosing that you are a beta tester. Even if you did disclose that you were a beta tester, it would probably be strictly forbidden to talk about anything that isn't already publicly available from Sony. That's what "non-disclosure" means. The fact that there is a beta is public knowledge. How Vegas Pro 12.0 is performing in that beta is not.
From some of the comments I've read here about people using the beta, they obviously either didn't read the NDA or Sony didn't stipulate that you couldn't disclose that you were a beta tester. In either case, I can't imagine they are allowed to share their experience during the beta and if they did would most probably not be asked to participate in a beta again from Sony because they violated the NDA. But I wouldn't know because if I did know I couldn't say so this is just speculation on my part. ;-)
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by Jeff Schroeder on Sep 23, 2012 at 4:50:50 pm
John,
I respectfully disagree. I would not want to alienate you to any degree over an issue such as this.
However, I have read the agreement. Since your last post, I have re-read the agreement. Sony does not stipulate that you are not allowed to disclose that you are a beta tester. The confidentiality agreement covers specifics about software design, functionality, method of implementation and anything not considered public knowledge. Any general comments about new or improved features previously made public by Sony Creative Software is not restricted. I have not said anything to anyone that is not on their coming soon page. https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro12cs
I believe that any discussion of 'failures' would be counter productive because beta testing is all about hunting down short comings of any nature.
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by John Rofrano on Sep 23, 2012 at 10:57:40 pm
[Jeff Schroeder]"I respectfully disagree. I would not want to alienate you to any degree over an issue such as this. However, I have read the agreement. Since your last post, I have re-read the agreement. Sony does not stipulate that you are not allowed to disclose that you are a beta tester."
I believe you if you say so. Perhaps because it's a public beta it is OK to discuss that you are a beta tester. I have been on private betas that do not allow you to acknowledge that you are a beta tester but I guess that makes sense because you're not supposed to reveal that the product is even in beta testing. So now that I think about it, since Sony has revealed that Vegas Pro 12.0 is in beta, it makes sense that it's OK to say if you are testing but still not OK to comment on features that haven't been discussed publicly by Sony.
[Jeff Schroeder]"I believe that any discussion of 'failures' would be counter productive because beta testing is all about hunting down short comings of any nature."
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by Jim Johnson on Sep 24, 2012 at 6:28:29 am
I have the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (2 GB GDDR5 GPU Memory)
Gateway FX6840 Intel Core i7 860 2.8Ghz
8 GB RAM
64 Bit Windows 7
GPU Acceleraation does appear to work (it gives me the option to activate it, anway), but I have no idea how to tell if it improves performance or not. The only thing I could think of was to do a render test, but that must not use the GPU Acceleration, since footage that took 21:09 (min:sec) with GPU Acceleration OFF took 21:14 - with GPU Acceleration ON. You read that right. GPU acceleration slowed it down by 5 seconds. (My math tells me it's only 4 10ths of a percent slower, but still...)
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by John Rofrano on Sep 24, 2012 at 1:41:17 pm
[Jim Johnson]"The only thing I could think of was to do a render test, but that must not use the GPU Acceleration, since footage that took 21:09 (min:sec) with GPU Acceleration OFF took 21:14 - with GPU Acceleration ON. You read that right. GPU acceleration slowed it down by 5 seconds. (My math tells me it's only 4 10ths of a percent slower, but still...)"
If you are talking about the GPU acceleration that is enabled in Options | Preferences | Video, then that won't affect a render unless you have GPU accelerated FX on the timeline.
The render acceleration is turned on and off in the render template. Take an encoder that benefits from the GPU like MainCencept AVC/AAC and select one of the Internet templates. Then edit the template and turn GPU acceleration off and time it. Then edit the template again and turn GPU acceleration on and tell us what times your seeing.
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by Jim Johnson on Sep 25, 2012 at 3:21:55 am
My comment from earlier: "GPU acceleration slowed it down by 5 seconds."
I'm wondering now if it could simply be that processing power was never the bottleneck. I'll upgrade my HD, then come back here & post how the GPU acceleration works.
Re: Survey of GPU's for Vegas Pro 11.0 by Rick Altizer on Sep 26, 2012 at 3:05:40 am
GeForce GTX 560 - Does Not work - Vegas won't even load with this card in.
NVIDIA Quadro 600 - Vegas will load with this card in.
Any rendering with GPU acceleration hangs 1/2 way through.
Rendering 1920 x 1080 main concept MP4
With GPU acceleration enabled in preferences - 8:58
GPU Acceleration OFF in preferences - 5:04
i7 quad core 3.5 ghz, 32 gig ram,
GPU Acceleration slows down render with Quadro 600 card.
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