Vegas editing, settings and hardware influence

[porina]

Still occasionally dabbling with making Videos with Vegas. Right now I'm encoding a 1440p30 in background. Source files were captured with ShadowPlay on same system. The current edit is maybe 18 minutes long, and takes around 8 minutes to encode to something resembling YouTube preferred format/data rates.

 

Key hardware:

8086k stock

16GB 3000C15 dual channel

1080Ti (Asus Strix OC version)

Source files on 7200rpm HD

Output to SSD

 

Output settings set to use nvenc. While encoding, I see CPU usage around 60 to 70%. GPU core load varies 0 to 30%, and video encoder is very bursty with peaks to 100%, but not much of the time, maybe 10%? Short of installing it on multiple systems to test, which would be a major pain due to software activation, any tips on what might speed it up more? Could it use more CPU? Would a faster GPU help? Or maybe some software setting I'm overlooking...

 

[LaFemmeEnVert]

6 minutes ago, porina said:

Still occasionally dabbling with making Videos with Vegas. Right now I'm encoding a 1440p30 in background. Source files were captured with ShadowPlay on same system. The current edit is maybe 18 minutes long, and takes around 8 minutes to encode to something resembling YouTube preferred format/data rates.

 

Key hardware:

8086k stock

16GB 3000C15 dual channel

1080Ti (Asus Strix OC version)

Source files on 7200rpm HD

Output to SSD

 

Output settings set to use nvenc. While encoding, I see CPU usage around 60 to 70%. GPU core load varies 0 to 30%, and video encoder is very bursty with peaks to 100%, but not much of the time, maybe 10%? Short of installing it on multiple systems to test, which would be a major pain due to software activation, any tips on what might speed it up more? Could it use more CPU? Would a faster GPU help? Or maybe some software setting I'm overlooking...

 

cpu or gpu usage on encoding video depends on video editing software and the edits you make.  but video encoding will usually be more cpu because the encoding process needs to work in serial, encoding each frame in sequence.  gpu graphics rendering is more like parallel process and more useful in usage like 3d rendering.  usually CPU clock speed is more important for video encoding.