Answers.Body: <p>12 hours render time for 9 minutes of HD footage is extrem, especially on that powerfull machine of yours. Either your "old time movie effect" is extremely demanding, or there's something seriously broken in your setup. I would expect a render time of far less than one hour.</p>
  
  <p>Five guesses from my side:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>You have a powerfull processor, and Vegas/Movie Studio is sometimes a bit special when it comes to GPU support, especially with CUDA. Try to disable GPU support and see what happens. Watch out though - there are multiple places where parts of the GPU support can be activated/deactivated in Vegas.</li>
  <li>Check in the task manager, if indeed all of your 8 cores are active during rendering. You can set the number of render threads in the Movie Studio options. Maybe it's set to a low value. The optimum would be around 16 for your CPU.</li>
  <li>Do a test run without the old time movie effect to see, whether this effect is the problem. </li>
  <li>As romeoyankee already suggested: Try to figure out whether your AV software interferes with Movie Studio.</li>
  <li>And just to be on the safe side: Check, whether there's enough available RAM during the render process. When the system needs to start swapping, this would have a huge impact on your performance. But with 8GB I doubt this is the case here.</li>
  </ol>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks for the input.  FYI: I cloned my HDD to a Samsung SSD.  And I removed the effect.  Rendered in 2 minutes.  Now I'm suspisious in the other direction.  That seems way to short to render HD.  My guess is that plug-in effect is buggy.
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Body: <p><strong>Issue Summary</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I am testing MovieStudio 14</li>
  <li>I have a Dell M4500, i7, 8-core, 8Gb RAM, NVIDIA quadro</li>
  <li>Editing has good performance, no complaints.</li>
  <li>9 minute video w/4 transitions and oldtime movie effect takes 12 hours to render HD quicktime.  </li>
  <li>My machine does not grind to a halt while rendering.</li>
  <li>Per post I read,  I downgraded NVIDIA  driver, now it takes 5-6 hours to render.</li>
  <li>For comparison, I own Adobe premiere elements 12 on the same machine and that takes about 3-4 hours.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong>
  I am asking how to improve the performace of MovieStudio 14?  Or any of these editing tools.</p>
  
  <p>What I don't want to do is buy all new software and/or upgrades (or even a new laptop) if these tools need certain settings, drivers, optical drives or new hardware.</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thanks to everyones input I bought Vegas MovieStudio platinum 15, diabled all services not needed and installed my SSD.
  I was able to render a 7 minute video in Quicktime HD in 70 minutes!  Acceptable to me.</p>
  
Tags: <video-editor><vegas-pro><performance>
Title: Rendering performacne of Vegas MovieStudio 14
UserDisplayName: Marinaio
ThreadText: # Rendering performacne of Vegas MovieStudio 14
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-04-16)
  
  **Issue Summary**
  
  * I am testing MovieStudio 14
  * I have a Dell M4500, i7, 8-core, 8Gb RAM, NVIDIA quadro
  * Editing has good performance, no complaints.
  * 9 minute video w/4 transitions and oldtime movie effect takes 12 hours to render HD quicktime.
  * My machine does not grind to a halt while rendering.
  * Per post I read, I downgraded NVIDIA driver, now it takes 5-6 hours to render.
  * For comparison, I own Adobe premiere elements 12 on the same machine and that takes about 3-4 hours.
  
  **Question**
  I am asking how to improve the performace of MovieStudio 14? Or any of these editing tools.
  
  What I don't want to do is buy all new software and/or upgrades (or even a new laptop) if these tools need certain settings, drivers, optical drives or new hardware.
  
  thanks
  
  **UPDATE**
  
  Thanks to everyones input I bought Vegas MovieStudio platinum 15, diabled all services not needed and installed my SSD.
  I was able to render a 7 minute video in Quicktime HD in 70 minutes! Acceptable to me.
  
  **Tags:** video-editor, vegas-pro, performance
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-04-23. Score: 0
  
  12 hours render time for 9 minutes of HD footage is extrem, especially on that powerfull machine of yours. Either your "old time movie effect" is extremely demanding, or there's something seriously broken in your setup. I would expect a render time of far less than one hour.
  
  Five guesses from my side:
  
  1. You have a powerfull processor, and Vegas/Movie Studio is sometimes a bit special when it comes to GPU support, especially with CUDA. Try to disable GPU support and see what happens. Watch out though - there are multiple places where parts of the GPU support can be activated/deactivated in Vegas.
  2. Check in the task manager, if indeed all of your 8 cores are active during rendering. You can set the number of render threads in the Movie Studio options. Maybe it's set to a low value. The optimum would be around 16 for your CPU.
  3. Do a test run without the old time movie effect to see, whether this effect is the problem.
  4. As romeoyankee already suggested: Try to figure out whether your AV software interferes with Movie Studio.
  5. And just to be on the safe side: Check, whether there's enough available RAM during the render process. When the system needs to start swapping, this would have a huge impact on your performance. But with 8GB I doubt this is the case here.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks for the input.  FYI: I cloned my HDD to a Samsung SSD.  And I removed the effect.  Rendered in 2 minutes.  Now I'm suspisious in the other direction.  That seems way to short to render HD.  My guess is that plug-in effect is buggy.  
  
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