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GPU for encoding video: AMD or nVidia

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haggggler

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I'm trying to make better home movies but the encoding times are killing me. From my limited research Sony's Vegas family and Adobe's Premiere are the two best choices for software. The problem is I can't find a lot of info on which of these cards work best with the above mentioned software.

I'm open to other software, but there doesn't seem to be much out the that supports accelerated encoding.

Advice?
 
Newer adobe premiere has a lot of opencl code in it which would tip the scale toward amd. Not sure about sony vegas. If all you need is encoding look into handbrake. It's got intel quick sync and opencl support (though I think via different source trees)
https://handbrake.fr/
 
haggggler said:
I'm trying to make better home movies but the encoding times are killing me.

Advice?
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I would suggest a different CPU, something with as many cores as you can get, as fast as you can get them. FYI, your motherboard will support this mod.

Darakian said:
It's got intel quick sync and opencl support (though I think via different source trees)
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HandBrake is the way to go imho but, If OP's CPU is the one in his sig, then I don't think quicksync is an option. Also, his 8800GT isn't really going to do him much good with anything OpenCL since G80 is pre-Fermi tech. If anything OpenCL runs for him (which it very well may), it's still not gonna run very fast :(
 
OP, you might want to look at this as an excuse to do a system refresh. An i7 or a dual quad xeon setup, even secondhand, would go a long way to assisting with this.

Even an AMD APU (7850k) would be a fantastic upgrade.
 
Careful about Premiere you'd need Pro not Elements. Elements is CPU only IIRC.

I have no idea about Vegas :)
 
cortexodus said:
Also, his 8800GT isn't really going to do him much good with anything OpenCL since G80 is pre-Fermi tech. If anything OpenCL runs for him (which it very well may), it's still not gonna run very fast :(
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Good catch, I didn't even read the sig. I did some looking and the G80 supports openCL 1.1
https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products/

Also I found this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenCL_applications
Seems sony vegas does openCL as well.
 
does Premiere Pro actually use the GPU when you are exporting the video?
I know it uses the GPU on the timeline for real-time processing of effects and transitions, but it seems to use the CPU when I export. All 8 threads get pegged to 90-100% when exporting.

And there was another thread here on the forums discussing GPU vs CPU rendering and the consensus was that CPU rendering will output a cleaner video.
 
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WOW, it's been a while since I updated my sig. The problem now? I took so long to update it, my current system still looks slow. Based on the above advice I'll should be looking at a newer AMD card and one of Core i7s. Thank you all for the help.

@cortexodus - I had not paid attention to the mod scene for over 10 years, seems that was a mistake. The machine in my old sig is now my HTPC and a Xeon would be a nice bump. Thank you.
 
Zepher said:
...there was another thread here on the forums discussing GPU vs CPU rendering and the consensus was that CPU rendering will output a cleaner video.
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I think that's probably true, but if OP is doing some self-training and just need to check his work, he doesn't necessarily need the cleanest video output for drafts. Doing anything final is probably best on CPU.

haggggler said:
Based on the above advice I'll should be looking at a newer AMD card and one of Core i7s.

@cortexodus - I had not paid attention to the mod scene for over 10 years, seems that was a mistake. The machine in my old sig is now my HTPC and a Xeon would be a nice bump. Thank you.
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If there's a Microcenter nearby, you could always pick up a 3770k for your mobo along with one of the bundle mobos and it'd be a drop-in upgrade for your machine as well as way to continue using the i3 in another machine (assuming you have all the bits n' bobs for that) Just a thought.

Be warned if you decide to try out that sticker-mod 771 to 775 trick, cutting the guides out of a 775 socket can be harrowing! :eek: I did it with an x-acto knife but someone else told me it's safer to use a pair of side-snips. Less chance of ravaging the nearest pins in the socket.
 
Zepher said:
does Premiere Pro actually use the GPU when you are exporting the video?
I know it uses the GPU on the timeline for real-time processing of effects and transitions, but it seems to use the CPU when I export. All 8 threads get pegged to 90-100% when exporting.

And there was another thread here on the forums discussing GPU vs CPU rendering and the consensus was that CPU rendering will output a cleaner video.
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It renders on CPU, not on GPU. The GPU helps with the live editing and processing, but it does not render.
 
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