How To Make Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10 Use More % Of The CPU?

[JohnnyGalaga]

After editing, when saving a high-definition movie as an .m2ts file, it looks like it only uses about 25% of each core on the i7 950. Is there a setting to increase the % it uses to make it finish faster?

Thanks.

[JohnnyGalaga]

Oh, yeah another question. Is there a way to use different fonts, sizes, and colors when adding a text overlay? It seems like it only lets you use the same font size & color in each overlay. I guess the only way to get different colors and sizes on the same screen is to add a new track?

[Steve Stepoway]

After editing, when saving a high-definition movie as an .m2ts file, it looks like it only uses about 25% of each core on the i7 950. Is there a setting to increase the % it uses to make it finish faster?

Thanks.

If you are reading from and writing to the same disk drive, the disk is your bottleneck. Read from one disk and write to another, and your CPU utilization will go up. Your problem is not CPU-related; it's disk-.related.

And as far as text is concerned, select the text you want to change in the text tool and change it. You can make every character different, if you want. But DON'T.

Steve

[JohnnyGalaga]

Interesting. I have a solid-state drive and a 1TB hard drive, so I'll have to try that. I wonder which way is faster, reading from or writing to the solid state drive.

And as for the text editing, I tried what you said earlier but it doesn't let you do that. Even if you highlight one word and then change the font or color, it changes it for all the text you have in the frame, highlighted or not. I just wish it could have a forum-style WYSIWYG editor which is years old technology.

[JohnnyGalaga]

I stand corrected. It looks like the text editor will let you change the font and font size, but not the color. If you change the color, all your text will be the same color regardless of what you highlight. I guess there's no way to have more than 1 color in the same frame?

[budwzr]

The properties of each text event are on the tabs in the dialog box. Click the "Generated Media" icon on the event to open it.

Look for Bold, Transparency, Shadow, Kerning, it's all there.

[Steve Stepoway]

Interesting. I have a solid-state drive and a 1TB hard drive, so I'll have to try that. I wonder which way is faster, reading from or writing to the solid state drive.

If you've got your footage on your TB drive (which would make sense), render to a temp directory on your SSD. Then copy your rendered file back to the TB drive. That will be much faster than reading from and rendering to the TB drive.

I'm certain that you can change text properties for any of the text, but I'm not in my edit bay, so I can't give any specifics.

Steve

[edDV]

Also in task manager Vegas exe properties you can apply more CPU priority.

[JohnnyGalaga]

The properties of each text event are on the tabs in the dialog box. Click the "Generated Media" icon on the event to open it.

Look for Bold, Transparency, Shadow, Kerning, it's all there.

This is actually after that step. If you click on the default text one, then you get another window where you can type and edit the text. That's the part where if you click the properties tab and select a text color, it makes all the text whatever color you choose, regardless of what you had selected before clicking the properties tab. It's a similar problem with the Effects tab. Whatever changes you make happens to all your text, not just whatever you had selected before clicking over to the Effects tab.

And as for the hard drive thing, it seems like a 10-minute 1.1 Gb 1080 .m2ts clip shouldn't take an hour to render even on just 1 hard drive.

[JohnnyGalaga]

Also in task manager Vegas exe properties you can apply more CPU priority.

Is this screenshot the right way to do that?

[budwzr]

You can keyframe (animate) text color or whatever changes in a single text event, click the "animate" button at the bottom.

What you are trying to do is a VERY basic function in Vegas, but the concept of keyframing to accomplish it has a bit of learning curve.

P.S. You can animate and composite vertically (multitrack) much easier, using composite envelopes instead of keyframing.

[edDV]

Also in task manager Vegas exe properties you can apply more CPU priority.

Is this screenshot the right way to do that?

yes, no need for "Realtime"

It will give Vegas priority over other running processes. Consequently, web browsing will be slow.

[jagabo]

Increasing the priority will not appreciably increase your processing speed unless you have some other process eating up CPU time. When multiple processes are asking for CPU time the priority determines which process will get it more often. If only one process is asking for CPU time it gets it whenever it asks for it.

I don't use Vegas but my guess is you don't have a bottleneck at disk access unless you are using uncompressed video files. There is probably some single threaded filter or codec that is limiting your CPU usage.

[JohnnyGalaga]

You can keyframe (animate) text color or whatever changes in a single text event, click the "animate" button at the bottom.

What you are trying to do is a VERY basic function in Vegas, but the concept of keyframing to accomplish it has a bit of learning curve.

P.S. You can animate and composite vertically (multitrack) much easier, using composite envelopes instead of keyframing.

Hmmm...you lost me there. I don't know what all the "keyframing" and "composite envelope" stuff means. The only way I can think of being able to use different colors and effects is to do a whole separate track for each word. That seems very cumbersome. All I wanna do is highlight part of the text and make it it a diffrent color and/or shadow than the other words. It's just like if you're in Microsoft Word and you highlight something. Word lets you do whatever you want with it.

And on a side note, this software seems to freeze up and crash A LOT. Unless you save your work frequently, it will freeze up eventually.

I don't use Vegas but my guess is you don't have a bottleneck at disk access unless you are using uncompressed video files. There is probably some single threaded filter or codec that is limiting your CPU usage.

I'm not sure what an "uncompressed video file" is, but what I'm doing is taking high-definition .mts files from a Canon Vixia HF21 camcorder, bringing them into Vegas, editing them, and then saving the final edited movie as an .m2ts file.

[budwzr]

Vegas rarely crashes unless you feed it a corrupt file, or the install got corrupted.

Text in Vegas can be used in MANY different ways, from credits to masks. If you need it colored a unique way you need to composite that or bring it in from elsewhere with a transparent background, AFAIK.

I've never tried to do what you ask, let me check it out.......nope.

[budwzr]

At first glance, this text coloring thing comes across as a seemingly simple thing that should be easily accomplished in such an otherwise robust piece of software, but all I can guess is that you're the first one to ever TRY to do this without expecting to composite it.

I suppose it has something to do with the way it handles text, no doubt much differently than a word processor. In Vegas, text is a raster object (a picture), and in Word it's ASCII characters (made out of codes), so what you see in Vegas is "Generated" text, not real text.

EdDV, help me out on this....

[edDV]

EdDV, help me out on this....

Sorry, I rarely use the text generator in Vegas.

[JohnnyGalaga]

That's okay. Don't swaet it. I appreciate the help. I'll just use multiple tracks. Maybe I might try creating a Word document with different colors and see if it can be brought into V-e-g-a-s.

Now how cool would that be to have Word Art in a video!!! LOL.

[budwzr]

lol,