I have recently made the switch to Adobe. I only upgraded my software, kept the same hardware, now a little over 2 years old. My build included a Radeon Graphics card.
I read all about the Cuda acceleration and last week I made the leap and bought a GTX560. With the new range, the 600's released lat month the 500's have dropped significantly in price.
I have Vegas Pro 10 and therefore never saw any hardware acceleration in Vegas.
Well, boys and girls, I am in awe with the Nvidia card and PPro. Of course there are horses for courses, meaning somethings lend themselves more to acceleration.
I have an introduction sequence, 5 video layers, color correction, opacity settings. I see 20X reduction with that. 20X, not 20%.
Normal video, with maybe a color correction and transitions I see anywhere from 15% - 40% improvement. All depends. It seems the more complex the more the improvement factor. Also rendering to a different format seems to like the GPU a lot.
All the scrubbing and previews are real-time, even with effects and multiple layers.
I have seen some numbers on here for VP11 and I like the idea of Sony going that direction but they seem to be a little off for now.
Maybe VP12 will have this stuff figured out, I am guessing Adobe didn't get it right the first time either.
I was a long time VP user and who knows, if the stability and GPU support sort themselves out I might be again, but for now I am sold on Adobe, even if some tasks take double the amount of clicks :-(. Really miss the VP Pan and Crop.
I read all about the Cuda acceleration and last week I made the leap and bought a GTX560. With the new range, the 600's released lat month the 500's have dropped significantly in price.
I have Vegas Pro 10 and therefore never saw any hardware acceleration in Vegas.
Well, boys and girls, I am in awe with the Nvidia card and PPro. Of course there are horses for courses, meaning somethings lend themselves more to acceleration.
I have an introduction sequence, 5 video layers, color correction, opacity settings. I see 20X reduction with that. 20X, not 20%.
Normal video, with maybe a color correction and transitions I see anywhere from 15% - 40% improvement. All depends. It seems the more complex the more the improvement factor. Also rendering to a different format seems to like the GPU a lot.
All the scrubbing and previews are real-time, even with effects and multiple layers.
I have seen some numbers on here for VP11 and I like the idea of Sony going that direction but they seem to be a little off for now.
Maybe VP12 will have this stuff figured out, I am guessing Adobe didn't get it right the first time either.
I was a long time VP user and who knows, if the stability and GPU support sort themselves out I might be again, but for now I am sold on Adobe, even if some tasks take double the amount of clicks :-(. Really miss the VP Pan and Crop.