So thanks to the matter I mentioned on my previous post, I ended up having to change the music and re-render the video (2 years since the last render)
In those 2 years I changed graphic card 2 times, started with a 8500GT, then I had an HD3850 temporarily, then back to the 8500GT and finally a year ago changed to an HD7750.
With the changes, gone was CUDA acceleration, but in it’s place I had OpenCL.
For video editing I used Sony Movie Studio Platinum, GPU acceleration worked great with the GeForce as did HitFilm. Then I changed to the HD3870 and it had nothing and soon I had stopped working with Sony MSP as we had grown bored of making shorts, but was still playing around with HitFilm. Then soon I stopped playing with video editing.
Fast forward to early this year (when I already had the HD7750) and there was an HifFilm Express giveaway, which made me think: “Well, I guess I should try the new graphic card at it…”
So I did, result: way more speed when using the GPU rendering. Great!
So today I had to grab my old Sony Movie Studio project and change some stuff.
Reinstalled the darn software, enabled GPU rendering and…certainly not quite as fast as I recalled.
It’s slow…really slow, as slow as CPU rendering.
I know, let me download Sony Vegas 13 trial and test, maybe it’s the old software and new graphic card that aren’t ‘in sync’ with each other.
Same crap.
From searching around it seems that:
1- Vegas encoders aren’t very up to date (the MainConcept one is from 2010, MainConcept ceased to exist meanwhile)
2- the newer GPUs seem to have been crippled as to not compete with the Quadro and Firepro on video rendering.
Fun!
Although it’s strange as some people (and a benchmark at anandtech) indicate that GPU rendering was working fine with the HD7970 and respective GPU family, but that’s overshadowed by the amount of people complaining that no, it isn’t (me included).
Meanwhile, I’m finally giving a little upgrade to my old socket 775 system, a quad core xeon and some ram.
Faster Vidyagames. 