getting poor quality when rendering a project on new system.

[APFable]

I play a game online called world of warcraft, and for my clan i like to make little promo videos

anyway I use sony vegas 5 to edit and fraps to record game footage. When I used my old system the videos I made came out nice , pretty decent quality using xvid codec mpeg4 for the rendering. ..

OLD SYSTEM
P4 2.0ghz
1gb ram
nvidia 5600 ultra video card (agp)




THEN one day I built an awsome system ......

NEW SYSTEM
amd64 3800
1gb DDR ram dual channel
ATI Radeon x800pro pci-express

And using the same template I had used before and same sony vegas 5/fraps combo, when I render my videos they look lik CRAP!!!! what happen to the quality??? much better system yet the video is garbage someon please help, I hope its only a driver or setting issue. pls help thx.

[APFable]

Someone was telling me that amd sucks for rendering but there is also a fix for it, anyone know anything bout it? or how to help my problem

[APFable]

any tips at all would be great thx.

[lordsmurf]

"Rendering" ??
Are you referring to encoding?

[thecoalman]

Someone was telling me that amd sucks for rendering but there is also a fix for it, anyone know anything bout it? or how to help my problem

If you have a comparable AMD and P4 the P4 is faster for encoding video. On the other hand the AMD is better for gaming, this won't effect quality though, just encoding speed.

[APFable]

ah yes encoding sorry for the miss-understanding. When i want to save my projects, i go to File, Render as, then it starts rendering (encoding) the video to what ever format i choose like AVI for windows etc..

But anyone have any tips on how to get the better quality? i just dont understand how the exact same settings on both computers will yeild different quality on the finished project.

[thecoalman]

I would suggest you have missed something somehwere and they are not the same, there's plenty to adjust.

Do you still have some of the original sources that converted well and some of the original video you have converted. I'd compare the properties of both to what you have now.