Re: Pro 13 press announcement
 

Interesting.

I never use MC's AVC encoder in Vegas but just tried a render using MC's AVC/AAC mp4 Blu-Ray 25Mbps video stream. GPU CUDA usage? A useless 2-4%. In effect nil. Open CL? Same lame results, virtually nil. Slow as a wet week.

Same render using Sony's Blu-Ray AVC mp4 video stream set to it's max of 21,999,616 and using 'Render using GPU if available' and GPU usage shoots up to 30%. A vast difference in render times!

I also have MainConcept's Reference encoder installed. It has a preset called 'H.264 @ GPU.' It also can't see the GPU cards, it comes up with error dialogues that say 'Can't initalize H264 CUDA video encoder.'

So obviously not much going well with MainConcept and CUDA either in MC's own software or Vegas. Shame really. Whether it will ever get fixed with MC being bought by Parallax Capital I somehow doubt. It appears Parallax's main development concentration is now centered around, quote

"...accelerating the adoption of the HEVC/H.265 video standard across the video supply chain with solutions for 3rd party software integration, transcoding applications, and protected playback on consumer electronics devices."

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

Re: Pro 13 press announcement
 

Actually, I have not been honest, but forgot that I have tried GPU accleration for Sony AVC and it worked pretty well. I'm just lazy and don't think to turn it on for the few times I use it. When I render I usually go eat or do something else so a few minutes just doesn't make a huge difference to me.

I would find preview accleration much more helpful, but as I've said before that is where things fall apart for me.

I do have Vegas crashes while editing even with GPU off, but they happen when I'm doing a large number of CC adjustments in quick succession. Vegas is not nearly as stable for me as it used to be during version 7 and 8. It's never seemed to be the same for me since.

Re: Pro 13 press announcement
 

Its kind of bad when you feel like you have to assign a mouse button to quick save so you dont loose too much work every day.

I have one of my thumb buttons as play/pause and another as save. I love vegas, it has the best workflow of any NLE but since version 8 I have never seen a stable release.