Render time differences Vegas 8.1 vs. 8.0c at DVinfo.net

Mark Duckworth · November 14th, 2008, 10:01 PM

I recently upgraded to Vista 64. I have been doing some render tests with various codecs to determine if there are any differences between 8.0c and 8.1. Everything in the NLE's was set to be as equal as possible (even down to the screen set-up) Interestingly enough the two codecs that I render to the most AVC and Mpeg2 have shown significant differences render times between the two NLE's when both are run in a 64bit environment. I Rendered a one minute clip using both the default Sony widescreen 24p DVDA compatible Mpeg2 template and the AVC Blu-ray 1080i 29.976 16Mbps template.

Here are the results I had:

Vegas 8.0c

AVC HD 5m 16s
Mpeg2 0m 36s

Vegas 8.1

AVC HD 3m 25s
Mpeg2 0m 40s

In 8.1 AVC HD renders significantly faster, but 8.0c renders faster for Mpeg2. I am going to continue testing different codecs to see if there are any more differences. If any of the more knowledgeable computer techies on the board could give me answer why this happens it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris Crocker · February 22nd, 2009, 07:53 AM

You sound like someone who could help.

I have a Dell Computer with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33 GHz processor, an 8 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics/video card, and still get very long rendering times for Canon's HF 10 AVCHD footage and Sony's EX 1 mxf files.

Average time to render either the AVCHD or mxf file into a WMV 1920 1080 60i 59 FPS 8 MBPS video is over an hour for about 2 minutes of footage... or Vegas 8 and 9 will just crash halfway through.

I'm at a loss for what to do... Does my system just not have the proper specs to be able to handle rendering/editing footage in 1920 1080 resolution? Is it the programs fault?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Perrone Ford · February 22nd, 2009, 08:00 AM

What operating system?

Have you edited the video? Added any effects?

And Mark is talking about Vegas Pro speeds, not sure about Vegas Movie Studio.

I've done my own testing between Vegas 8.0c and 8.1, and my results show 8.1 faster for everything, but my computer is slower than both of yours.

Chris Crocker · February 24th, 2009, 02:23 AM

"What operating system?"

Vista 64bit

"Have you edited the video? Added any effects?"

Small edits, some brightness/contrast changes on some. No editing of any kind on other attempts.

"And Mark is talking about Vegas Pro speeds, not sure about Vegas Movie Studio."

I'm using Vegas Pro 8 and 9... having the same problems on both.

I've done my own testing between Vegas 8.0c and 8.1, and my results show 8.1 faster for everything, but my computer is slower than both of yours.

Edward Troxel · February 24th, 2009, 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Crocker

I'm using Vegas Pro 8 and 9...

Vegas Pro 9 does not exist at this time!

The only version 9 versions are the Movie Studio versions.

Perrone Ford · February 24th, 2009, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

Vegas Pro 9 does not exist at this time!

The only version 9 versions are the Movie Studio versions.

I suspect both of what he has are VMS. Should still work though. Something else is wrong.

Edward Troxel · February 24th, 2009, 08:57 AM

Over an hour for 2 minutes of footage means something is definitely wrong somewhere. Hard to say if it's related to Vegas or related to hardware or related to OS/drivers/etc... though. From the specs, the hardware is plenty fast enough for much better results than that.

Perrone Ford · February 24th, 2009, 09:09 AM

Agreed. My core2duo laptop gives better results than that. Especially in 64-bit.

Chris Crocker · February 26th, 2009, 07:17 PM

I'm thinking it's gotta be the software because I've installed the same files of Vegas Pro version 8.0b and Vegas Studio 9 on two different computers with the same results. Both will either stall or crash when rendering over a minute of 1920 1080 footage using many different WMV format settings.

Now if I render to an AVI uncompressed setting the speed is much faster, of course that leaves me with about a 20 GB file for only a minute of footage haha... ugh.

Edward Troxel
If it is a hardware or drive problem how can I find that out/test it? I'm not a total retard on the computer but I am a novice with this whole editing/rendering stuff.

Thanks for all the comments and anymore help guys!

Perrone Ford · February 26th, 2009, 08:47 PM

Chris,

At this VERY moment, I am rendering a 1080p 10 Mbps WMV file just to test for you. Source was 1080p footage from an HMC150. I am rendering with Vegas 8.1 on my core2duo laptop with 4MB RAM.

Render is about 1/3 done and total time looks to be about 10 minutes for 1:06 footage.

I can test some footage from my EX1 when I'm done if you want comparisons. I can put the source footage as well as the rendered WMV on my FTP server for you to download if you like.

Chris Crocker · February 27th, 2009, 02:39 AM

Perrone Ford
Thanks very much for testing. It makes me feel a little less crazy and stupid. I've now tried Vegas Pro build a b and c with the same crappy results on my 8 GB and 2 GB computers.
I knew I should've bought a mac pro!
The only thing that's really lacking on my main comp is a video drive which is an ATI Radeon HD 3450, so beyond that (if it even matters), I'm at a loss.
I'm actually getting slow render times using Pinnacle Ultimate 12... so it's gotta be something with my system, but what? How does one find that out? It's not as if these programs tell you what to expect in conjunction with your specs.
Ugh!

Thanks again for the help.

PS
Just did a render test for 1:08 of 1920 1080 Canon HF10 footage (doesn't really matter the source same previous speed results apply to my EX1 files) and it didn't crash (i think anything over 2 mins is what does it). My render time was 20 mins. I'm wondering if a service pack, or just a fully system restore/format might help?

Perrone Ford · February 27th, 2009, 06:59 AM

Are you running Vista64 on both systems? I am running XP64 for a reason. Hae you run any system benchmarking tools? That might help locate the bottleneck.

Try Crystalmark2004R3. It's free and pretty decent. We can compare results. You system should spank mine.

Edward Troxel · February 27th, 2009, 07:54 AM

For the HD 1920x1080 AVCHD 2 hour project I just finished, I selected 1 minute on the timeline. The entire segment was color corrected with New Blue Color Fixer plus. To render that 1 minute to 1440x1080 10M WMV took 15 seconds. I started with the 8M preset, changed the 8 to 10 and made sure the quality was set to "Best".

Chris Crocker · February 28th, 2009, 02:37 AM

Perrone

These are the Crystal Mark test results for my 8 GB ram Dell computer... and I have no idea what they mean or if I even did them right.

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CrystalMark 2004R3 [0.9.126.451] (C) 2001-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World [http://crystalmark.info/]
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Display Mode : 1920 x 1200 32bit (ClearType)

CrystalMark : 142207

[ ALU ] 44912
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Napierian : 11626
Eratosthenes : 5770
QuickSort : 11362
[ FPU ] 43968
MikoFPU : 4533
RandMeanSS : 24514
FFT : 7745
Mandelbrot : 7154
[ MEM ] 19743
Read : 7326.57 MB/s ( 7326)
Write : 3294.90 MB/s ( 3294)
Read/Write : 3312.64 MB/s ( 3312)
Cache : 57897.03 MB/s ( 5789)
[ HDD ] 15540
Read : 122.53 MB/s ( 4450)
Write : 134.32 MB/s ( 4686)
RandomRead512K : 38.25 MB/s ( 1530)
RandomWrite512K : 81.37 MB/s ( 3254)
RandomRead 64K : 6.25 MB/s ( 250)
RandomWrite 64K : 34.26 MB/s ( 1370)
[ GDI ] 7516
Text : 3965
Square : 428
Circle : 1309
BitBlt : 1814
[ D2D ] 2950
Sprite 10 : 201.35 FPS ( 20)
Sprite 100 : 163.66 FPS ( 163)
Sprite 500 : 94.03 FPS ( 470)
Sprite 1000 : 61.45 FPS ( 614)
Sprite 5000 : 16.47 FPS ( 823)
Sprite 10000 : 8.60 FPS ( 860)
[ OGL ] 7578
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Lines (x1000) : ( 726633)
Scene 1 CPUs : ( 128)
Scene 2 Score : 3277
Polygons(x1000) : ( 184756)
Scene 2 CPUs : ( 128)

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Number(Logical) : 4
Family : 6
Model : 7
Stepping : 7
Feature : MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 XD Intel 64

Current Original
Clock : 2333.07 MHz 2333.33 MHz
System Clock : 333.30 MHz 333.33 MHz
System Bus : 1333.18 MHz 1333.33 MHz
Multiplier : 7.00 7.00
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Edward

Regarding your fast rendering times; what are your computer's specs? It just took me 16 minutes to render a minute of AVCHD footage to a 1920 1080 59 Fps WMV file. I do the same thing as you in switching the standard 8 Mbps to 10. I also change the preset video bit rate from a Quality VBR to CBR, and choose best quality.

I'm getting slow rendering times in Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate, so I'm begining to think I have a hardware problem. Hopefully that test lists enough about my specs for any of you to tell if they're lacking.

If anyone here can give me their exact render settings for an mts or mxf or any AVCHD footage into a 1920 1080 WMV V9 file I will try and copy the exact process, and we can compare speeds.

Sorry guys for having like 10 more questions for every answer, and I really do appreicate the help.

Edward Troxel · February 28th, 2009, 08:39 AM

The computer I tested on is:

Stock Gateway DX4720-03
Pentium Dual-Core E5200, 2.5 GHz
4 Gig RAM

November 14th, 2008, 10:01 PM	#1
Mark Duckworth Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Japan Posts: 93	Render time differences Vegas 8.1 vs. 8.0c I recently upgraded to Vista 64. I have been doing some render tests with various codecs to determine if there are any differences between 8.0c and 8.1. Everything in the NLE's was set to be as equal as possible (even down to the screen set-up) Interestingly enough the two codecs that I render to the most AVC and Mpeg2 have shown significant differences render times between the two NLE's when both are run in a 64bit environment. I Rendered a one minute clip using both the default Sony widescreen 24p DVDA compatible Mpeg2 template and the AVC Blu-ray 1080i 29.976 16Mbps template. Here are the results I had: Vegas 8.0c AVC HD 5m 16s Mpeg2 0m 36s Vegas 8.1 AVC HD 3m 25s Mpeg2 0m 40s In 8.1 AVC HD renders significantly faster, but 8.0c renders faster for Mpeg2. I am going to continue testing different codecs to see if there are any more differences. If any of the more knowledgeable computer techies on the board could give me answer why this happens it would be greatly appreciated. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad E6600(@3GHz) \| Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT/1GB PCI-e x16 DVI \| 8GB DDR2-SDRAM \| 2 x 1TB S-ATA2/7200rpm/32MB Hard Drives \| Vista Ultimate 64

February 22nd, 2009, 07:53 AM	#2
Chris Crocker New Boot Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 7	Vegas 8 And 9 Rendering Issues You sound like someone who could help. I have a Dell Computer with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33 GHz processor, an 8 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics/video card, and still get very long rendering times for Canon's HF 10 AVCHD footage and Sony's EX 1 mxf files. Average time to render either the AVCHD or mxf file into a WMV 1920 1080 60i 59 FPS 8 MBPS video is over an hour for about 2 minutes of footage... or Vegas 8 and 9 will just crash halfway through. I'm at a loss for what to do... Does my system just not have the proper specs to be able to handle rendering/editing footage in 1920 1080 resolution? Is it the programs fault? Thanks for any help you can give me!

February 22nd, 2009, 08:00 AM	#3
Perrone Ford Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 4,100	What operating system? Have you edited the video? Added any effects? And Mark is talking about Vegas Pro speeds, not sure about Vegas Movie Studio. I've done my own testing between Vegas 8.0c and 8.1, and my results show 8.1 faster for everything, but my computer is slower than both of yours. __________________ DVX100, PMW-EX1, Canon 550D, FigRig, Dell Octocore, Avid MC4/5, MB Looks, RedCineX, Matrox MX02 mini, GTech RAID, Edirol R-4, Senn. G2 Evo, Countryman, Moles and Lowels.

February 24th, 2009, 08:57 AM	#7
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Over an hour for 2 minutes of footage means something is definitely wrong somewhere. Hard to say if it's related to Vegas or related to hardware or related to OS/drivers/etc... though. From the specs, the hardware is plenty fast enough for much better results than that. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

February 24th, 2009, 09:09 AM	#8
Perrone Ford Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 4,100	Agreed. My core2duo laptop gives better results than that. Especially in 64-bit. __________________ DVX100, PMW-EX1, Canon 550D, FigRig, Dell Octocore, Avid MC4/5, MB Looks, RedCineX, Matrox MX02 mini, GTech RAID, Edirol R-4, Senn. G2 Evo, Countryman, Moles and Lowels.

February 24th, 2009, 02:23 AM	#4
Chris Crocker New Boot Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 7	"What operating system?" Vista 64bit "Have you edited the video? Added any effects?" Small edits, some brightness/contrast changes on some. No editing of any kind on other attempts. "And Mark is talking about Vegas Pro speeds, not sure about Vegas Movie Studio." I'm using Vegas Pro 8 and 9... having the same problems on both. I've done my own testing between Vegas 8.0c and 8.1, and my results show 8.1 faster for everything, but my computer is slower than both of yours.

February 26th, 2009, 07:17 PM	#9
Chris Crocker New Boot Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 7	I'm thinking it's gotta be the software because I've installed the same files of Vegas Pro version 8.0b and Vegas Studio 9 on two different computers with the same results. Both will either stall or crash when rendering over a minute of 1920 1080 footage using many different WMV format settings. Now if I render to an AVI uncompressed setting the speed is much faster, of course that leaves me with about a 20 GB file for only a minute of footage haha... ugh. Edward Troxel If it is a hardware or drive problem how can I find that out/test it? I'm not a total retard on the computer but I am a novice with this whole editing/rendering stuff. Thanks for all the comments and anymore help guys!

February 26th, 2009, 08:47 PM	#10
Perrone Ford Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 4,100	Chris, At this VERY moment, I am rendering a 1080p 10 Mbps WMV file just to test for you. Source was 1080p footage from an HMC150. I am rendering with Vegas 8.1 on my core2duo laptop with 4MB RAM. Render is about 1/3 done and total time looks to be about 10 minutes for 1:06 footage. I can test some footage from my EX1 when I'm done if you want comparisons. I can put the source footage as well as the rendered WMV on my FTP server for you to download if you like. Attached Thumbnails __________________ DVX100, PMW-EX1, Canon 550D, FigRig, Dell Octocore, Avid MC4/5, MB Looks, RedCineX, Matrox MX02 mini, GTech RAID, Edirol R-4, Senn. G2 Evo, Countryman, Moles and Lowels.

February 27th, 2009, 02:39 AM	#11
Chris Crocker New Boot Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 7	Perrone Ford Thanks very much for testing. It makes me feel a little less crazy and stupid. I've now tried Vegas Pro build a b and c with the same crappy results on my 8 GB and 2 GB computers. I knew I should've bought a mac pro! The only thing that's really lacking on my main comp is a video drive which is an ATI Radeon HD 3450, so beyond that (if it even matters), I'm at a loss. I'm actually getting slow render times using Pinnacle Ultimate 12... so it's gotta be something with my system, but what? How does one find that out? It's not as if these programs tell you what to expect in conjunction with your specs. Ugh! Thanks again for the help. PS Just did a render test for 1:08 of 1920 1080 Canon HF10 footage (doesn't really matter the source same previous speed results apply to my EX1 files) and it didn't crash (i think anything over 2 mins is what does it). My render time was 20 mins. I'm wondering if a service pack, or just a fully system restore/format might help? Last edited by Chris Crocker; February 27th, 2009 at 03:20 AM. Reason: Addition

February 27th, 2009, 06:59 AM	#12
Perrone Ford Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 4,100	Are you running Vista64 on both systems? I am running XP64 for a reason. Hae you run any system benchmarking tools? That might help locate the bottleneck. Try Crystalmark2004R3. It's free and pretty decent. We can compare results. You system should spank mine. __________________ DVX100, PMW-EX1, Canon 550D, FigRig, Dell Octocore, Avid MC4/5, MB Looks, RedCineX, Matrox MX02 mini, GTech RAID, Edirol R-4, Senn. G2 Evo, Countryman, Moles and Lowels.

February 27th, 2009, 07:54 AM	#13
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	For the HD 1920x1080 AVCHD 2 hour project I just finished, I selected 1 minute on the timeline. The entire segment was color corrected with New Blue Color Fixer plus. To render that 1 minute to 1440x1080 10M WMV took 15 seconds. I started with the 8M preset, changed the 8 to 10 and made sure the quality was set to "Best". __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

February 28th, 2009, 02:37 AM	#14
Chris Crocker New Boot Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 7	Perrone These are the Crystal Mark test results for my 8 GB ram Dell computer... and I have no idea what they mean or if I even did them right. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CrystalMark 2004R3 [0.9.126.451] (C) 2001-2008 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World [http://crystalmark.info/] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrystalMark Result ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Display Mode : 1920 x 1200 32bit (ClearType) CrystalMark : 142207 [ ALU ] 44912 Fibonacci : 16132 Napierian : 11626 Eratosthenes : 5770 QuickSort : 11362 [ FPU ] 43968 MikoFPU : 4533 RandMeanSS : 24514 FFT : 7745 Mandelbrot : 7154 [ MEM ] 19743 Read : 7326.57 MB/s ( 7326) Write : 3294.90 MB/s ( 3294) Read/Write : 3312.64 MB/s ( 3312) Cache : 57897.03 MB/s ( 5789) [ HDD ] 15540 Read : 122.53 MB/s ( 4450) Write : 134.32 MB/s ( 4686) RandomRead512K : 38.25 MB/s ( 1530) RandomWrite512K : 81.37 MB/s ( 3254) RandomRead 64K : 6.25 MB/s ( 250) RandomWrite 64K : 34.26 MB/s ( 1370) [ GDI ] 7516 Text : 3965 Square : 428 Circle : 1309 BitBlt : 1814 [ D2D ] 2950 Sprite 10 : 201.35 FPS ( 20) Sprite 100 : 163.66 FPS ( 163) Sprite 500 : 94.03 FPS ( 470) Sprite 1000 : 61.45 FPS ( 614) Sprite 5000 : 16.47 FPS ( 823) Sprite 10000 : 8.60 FPS ( 860) [ OGL ] 7578 Scene 1 Score : 4301 Lines (x1000) : ( 726633) Scene 1 CPUs : ( 128) Scene 2 Score : 3277 Polygons(x1000) : ( 184756) Scene 2 CPUs : ( 128) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ System Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OS : Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 [6.0 Build 6001] Display Mode : 1920 x 1200 32bit 59Hz Memory : 8191 MB DirectX : 10.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CPU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CPU Name : Intel Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield) Vendor String : GenuineIntel Name String : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz Platform : LGA775 CPU Type : Original OEM processor Number(Logical) : 4 Family : 6 Model : 7 Stepping : 7 Feature : MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 XD Intel 64 Current Original Clock : 2333.07 MHz 2333.33 MHz System Clock : 333.30 MHz 333.33 MHz System Bus : 1333.18 MHz 1333.33 MHz Multiplier : 7.00 7.00 Data Rate : QDR Over Clock : -0.01 % L1 I-Cache : 32 KB L1 D-Cache : 32 KB L2 Cache : 2048 KB [Full:2333.07 MHz] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChipSet : Intel Unknown North : Intel Unknown South : Intel Unknown IDE Controller : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Graphics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Video : ATI Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3450 Video Product : ATI Radeon HD 3450 Video Vendor : ATI Technologies Inc. Video Chip : ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x95C5) Video RAM : 256 MB Driver Version : 7.01.01.771 Driver Date : 2008/05/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HDD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type Size Model ( Buffer Mode ) SCSI 1280.2GB ARRAY0 USB 4.0GB Sony Storage Media USB Device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vendor : Dell Inc. Caption : BIOS Date: 09/26/08 15:21:57 Ver: 0.0.1 Version : DELL - 20080926 Date : 2008/09/26 SM BIOS Caption : 1.0.4 SM BIOS Version : 2.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mother ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vendor : Dell Inc. Product : 0M017G Version : A00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Computer System ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vendor : Dell Inc. Product : Studio 540 Edward Regarding your fast rendering times; what are your computer's specs? It just took me 16 minutes to render a minute of AVCHD footage to a 1920 1080 59 Fps WMV file. I do the same thing as you in switching the standard 8 Mbps to 10. I also change the preset video bit rate from a Quality VBR to CBR, and choose best quality. I'm getting slow rendering times in Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate, so I'm begining to think I have a hardware problem. Hopefully that test lists enough about my specs for any of you to tell if they're lacking. If anyone here can give me their exact render settings for an mts or mxf or any AVCHD footage into a 1920 1080 WMV V9 file I will try and copy the exact process, and we can compare speeds. Sorry guys for having like 10 more questions for every answer, and I really do appreicate the help. __________________ Chris Last edited by Chris Crocker; February 28th, 2009 at 02:50 AM. Reason: Additions

February 28th, 2009, 08:39 AM	#15
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	The computer I tested on is: Stock Gateway DX4720-03 Pentium Dual-Core E5200, 2.5 GHz 4 Gig RAM __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters