<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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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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<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>

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Rendering performacne of Vegas MovieStudio 14
Marinaio
# 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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