Vegas only rendering at 50% when rendering with Hyperthreading

Matt Grunau

Matt Grunau

Adobe Demigod
Has anyone else ran into this problem? I'm running XP home, and some apps, like Vegas and AE never use the full CPU. Right now I am renering a .png sequence, and eh CPU useage in the Task Manager has held at 50%.

Is there a way I can set this up correctly?
 
mine does that too, but it uses the full allocation of RAM. 1 gig.

but DVD architect runs at 95-100 %CPU and like 250 MB RAM.

i wonder.
 
I would think that's awesome that it's only at 50% ... unless you're meaning that you want to see it at 100%, like it's maxing that CPU out to render it even more quickly. I wouldn't think that the % of CPU used would really have that much to do with how quickly something renders, unless it's just peg'd at 100%, then I'd think it could be slowing down & choking through it.
 
I'm running Vegas with an Athlon X2 and noticed that some of my renders max out at 50%, while others max out at 100%. In my case the problem wound up being video filters - if you use a filter which is not optimized for Multiple CPUs, then your entire render will effectively only use 1 CPU.

In the "Plug-In Chooser" window, effects with green icons are optimized for Multiple CPUS. Effects with yellow icons are not (such as Sony Film Effects and all of my Third-Party filters).
 
As usual, the answers are quick, poinient, and helpful.

THanks all.

And yeah, just rendering a .png is not probably a plugin that would use multiple CPUs.



Edit: Oh, and it's spelled poignant. Dumb me.
 
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CTRL-ALT-DEL, go to "Process". Right click on "vegas60.exe", and make sure "Set Affinity" is using both processors.
 
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