Sony Vegas Pro 11 Gpu Rendering?

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 16:26

Hello My GPU HD7950 supports GPU rendering, but when trying to use it with Vegas, it just says an error has occurred? Anyone here had same issue and have fixed it?

Thanks

Mr Paul · 7 Aug 2012 at 16:31

Maybe it only supports CUDA not OpenCL?

layte · 7 Aug 2012 at 16:57

Vegas 11 definatly uses OpenCL.

Tonester0011 · 7 Aug 2012 at 17:54

I never knew Vegas 11 used OpenCL...I've always left it on "automatic"...good to know that means my card was being used.

HD7970 here and it's never had a render fail. Just tested it with "GPU only" and still just whizzes through the render.

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:20

Tonester0011 said:
I never knew Vegas 11 used OpenCL...I've always left it on "automatic"...good to know that means my card was being used.

HD7970 here and it's never had a render fail. Just tested it with "GPU only" and still just whizzes through the render.

What you use to recorded? and are you using MP4? has output?

Tonester0011 · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:26

shankly1985 said:
What you use to recorded? and are you using MP4? has output?

.M2TS footage rendering into .mp4.
That's the majority of my renders, and .avi from FRAPS rendering into .mp4.

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:27

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:30

Tonester0011 said:
.M2TS footage rendering into .mp4.
That's the majority of my renders, and .avi from FRAPS rendering into .mp4.

No matter what I try it just wont render with gpu. It uses Cpu fine.

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:43

Ok if I select Sony AVC/MVC mp4 it will render on the GPU. If I select any of the Main Concept Mp4/Mpg-1/2 It will fail with error.??

Protomize · 7 Aug 2012 at 19:26

Same thing here. I cannot use my HD 7850 to render with Vegas Pro 11.

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 19:45

Protomize said:
Same thing here. I cannot use my HD 7850 to render with Vegas Pro 11.

Witch drivers you using? am using 12.4 maybe driver issue. But dont understand why sony presets work

psychodil · 7 Aug 2012 at 20:06

Try the latest catalyst 12.7 betas, opencl support has improved since 12.4. If it doesn't work you can roll back the driver.

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 20:18

psychodil said:
Try the latest catalyst 12.7 betas, opencl support has improved since 12.4. If it doesn't work you can roll back the driver.

Thanks will give it a shot.

Protomize · 7 Aug 2012 at 20:25

I'm using 12.7 beta.

shankly1985 · 7 Aug 2012 at 20:34

Updated 12.7 and still the same. This doing my head in now.

Sin_Chase · 7 Aug 2012 at 21:27

Have you updated Vegas itself?

Ceptic · 7 Aug 2012 at 22:15

Ok basically, all of you are correct but wrong at the same time.

I have done a lot, and I mean a lot OF RESEARCH on this.

This generation GPU's do not work on Sony Vegas GPU rendering especially 11, as that's one of it's main features, Sony Vegas have done the patching required for the 7XXX and the GTX 6XX series.
It's Nvidia and AMD that need to realize that they've buggered up and include it in the next patch.

If you render with Mainconcept MP4, again with nvidia's cards it does not work and persist with that exact same error, yet in the properties it detects my CUDA cores on my 670, I've had this issue for ALONG time!

Basically, if you use the alternate (Sonys codec), like you suggested, it actually DOES NOT utilize the GPU at all! I stress this a lot to you, it still renders with the CPU.
I've done many tests and there was no significance. Anything until Nvidia and AMD patch Sony Vegas GPU rendering will have to be done on GTX 400-GTX 500 series and AMD upto 6XXX.

shankly1985 · 8 Aug 2012 at 00:58

Sin_Chase said:
Have you updated Vegas itself?

Using latest version mate.

shankly1985 · 8 Aug 2012 at 01:01

Ceptic said:
Ok basically, all of you are correct but wrong at the same time.

I have done a lot, and I mean a lot OF RESEARCH on this.

This generation GPU's do not work on Sony Vegas GPU rendering especially 11, as that's one of it's main features, Sony Vegas have done the patching required for the 7XXX and the GTX 6XX series.
It's Nvidia and AMD that need to realize that they've buggered up and include it in the next patch.

If you render with Mainconcept MP4, again with nvidia's cards it does not work and persist with that exact same error, yet in the properties it detects my CUDA cores on my 670, I've had this issue for ALONG time!

Basically, if you use the alternate (Sonys codec), like you suggested, it actually DOES NOT utilize the GPU at all! I stress this a lot to you, it still renders with the CPU.
I've done many tests and there was no significance. Anything until Nvidia and AMD patch Sony Vegas GPU rendering will have to be done on GTX 400-GTX 500 series and AMD upto 6XXX.

Thanks for the information. But when I used the Sony Codec, and selected use GPU it did run on my GPU. I checked using Gpu-z and core clock and temps went up.
What settings do you use, if you uploading to youtube?

Thanks

Ceptic · 8 Aug 2012 at 02:31

It is somewhat possible the gpu is taking some of the load, my GPU says a max of 17% usage when I try rendering with Sonys codec, still though CPU utilization is 70% or so. Rather than 30% usage and 80% usage on SLI GTX 460's
Sometimes I wish I hadn't upgraded

I use either.
WMV @ 720p 30.00 FPS
1.000 Pixel Aspect
0 Video smoothness
8M bitrate
Best project settings

2048x1152 WMV
1.333 Aspect
100% Vid smooth
12 MB bitrate
Best project settings

720p / 1080p M2TS w/ GPU, mp4 buggers up after 70% or so
29.970 FPS
1.0000 Pixel aspect
15MB bitrate
Best project settings.

Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCjJXkEsbFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHI3K64l6t0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOUySGBz1A