Sony Vegas Pro 8 on Quadcore CPU

[SCDVD]

Does Sony Vegas Pro 8 make full use of an Intel Quadcore CPU? I'm planning a system update later in the year and I'm looking and options.

[JohnnyMalaria]

You could try the trial version - it is fully featured.

[SCDVD]

I have Vegas Pro 8 and I'm considering a system upgrade later in the year. I am using a 3.2 Prescott and I need more processing power. I'm trying to gauge the benefit of going Quadcore versus Dualcore. I would love to be able to download a trial Quadcore system - right out of Startrek.

[tarrickb]

Yes it does - most of the time. Certain formats that you render to do not fully utilize 100% of the CPU. Overall, I would recommend the upgrade.

[SCDVD]

Here is an interesting report from EventDV magazine. The report says that measured test results with Vegas Pro 8 and Adobe Premiere CS3 shows four core processors are faster than dual core but that's where the mulitcore benefit ends. There is no benefit with eight core processors. I imagine than future versions of Vegas and Premiere may be designed to take advantage of more than four cores.

http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?CategoryID=229&ArticleID=40442

[JohnnyMalaria]

It's very odd that the number of cores supported should be hard-coded. My code will detect the number of cores available and assign one thread to each for parallel processing. Of course, I haven't been able to test this on a dual quadcore but the thread allocation is so trivial.... Should it be a problem, though, the maximum number of threads can be specified.

[JohnnyMalaria]

I have Vegas Pro 8 and I'm considering a system upgrade later in the year. I am using a 3.2 Prescott and I need more processing power. I'm trying to gauge the benefit of going Quadcore versus Dualcore. I would love to be able to download a trial Quadcore system - right out of Startrek.

According to http://computershopper.com/reviews/vegas-pro-8

If you've been looking for a reason to upgrade to a quad-core processor, Vegas Pro 8 is it. The program takes full advantage of multiple cores to significantly speed video rendering. Doing simple renders, we typically saw a QX6850 processor running at about 85 percent usage, but once we added a couple of audio and video effects, Vegas Pro 8 pegged all four cores at 100 percent. For really huge projects, Vegas Pro 8's networked rendering lets you farm out part of a rendering project to multiple computers.

[Soopafresh]

Considering a Q6600 is only $20 more than an E8400, the choice should be clear.