CPU/Motherboard for faster rendering?

[sdsumike619]

I'm currently using an AMD Athlon 1800 processor and my video rendering times suck! I just rendered a 2 min, 15 sec clip in Vegas that had some color correction done, and a picture-in-picture. The dang thing took about 17 minutes to render to mpeg2.

I read this article:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/181153.php

about what to get. That was a while ago but he sais that the Athlon 2600 processor will provide realtime encoding. Is this true?

If not, what should I buy in terms of a good motherboard/CPU for rendering to mpg2? I'd like to stick with AMD..

[sdsumike619]

OK, I just rendered a 3 minute, 48 second mpg, and it took 51 minutes....anyone have any suggestions what to buy to make this thing faster?

[daamon]

Hi sdsumike619,

It all depends on your budget - provide some guidance...

A rough guide would be:

1. The fastest CPU you can afford
2. The fastest mobo you can afford (make sure it supports the CPU)
3. Up your RAM to 1Gb of PC3200 DDR (and make sure you're mobo supports it).

You mention "render" to MPEG2 - do you mean "encode"? Or does Vegas render then encode? (I don't know the software...)

[sdsumike619]

render and encode mean the same thing , Vegas just calls in rendering I guess... it uses the MainConcept encoder...

What brand motherboard to you reccomend to use with an AMD chip? I know there are many out there...

[daamon]

render and encode mean the same thing

In Vegas maybe... But not to me (nor, I would guess, to many others).

What brand motherboard to you reccomend to use with an AMD chip? I know there are many out there...

I'm not proficient in that area, sorry. But I do know (from research that I've done recently regarding mobos for an Intel P4) that Asus and Gigabyte are respected makes.

You might be better asking the question in the Computer forum.

Good luck.

[chilli]

I just built a new AMD system using a Athlon 64 3000+ and Aopen AK89 Max motherboard (supports OCing). Seems to be fast for encoding. The only thing I should have changed and didn't was adding a SATA harddrive instead of using the UDMA 100 WD I had in my old system. The old drives drag the performance down some.

[Still Learning Here]

I have 3Ghz Pentium, 512MB memory. It take about 9minutes each pass to convert 23 minutes Avi to MPeg 2(DVD). So it faster than realtime if you do 2 pass I guess.(18-20Min for 23Min video)

[sacajaweeda]

I was using an XP2600+ chip on an nForce2 board before I built this box and it would do realtime encoding easily. Just match everything up, whatever you go with. Front side bus speed, memory speed, etc. And I would get at least 512 MB DDR RAM, but whatever you get, buy it in pairs and run it on a board that lets you use dual channel mode.

Keep in mind that the more you manipulate your source with filters and whatnot, the longer it's going to take to process/encode. My system will flat out fly processing raw video with no filters, but of course that's not anything I'd want my friends to see