Performance - Video Creation - Vegas PRO

Performance - Video Creation - Vegas PRO

Magix Vegas Pro - This professional video editing software Vegas Pro is a video editing software package for non-linear editing. Originally developed as an audio editor, it eventually developed into an NLE for video and audio from version 2.0. Originally developed as an audio editor, it eventually developed into an NLE for video and audio from version 2.0. Vegas features real-time multitrack video and audio editing on unlimited tracks, resolution-independent video sequencing, complex effects and compositing tools, 24-bit/192 kHz audio support, VST and DirectX plug-in effect support, and Dolby Digital surround sound mixing. Up to version 10, Vegas Pro runs on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 and is multi-threaded.
 

So yes - we invested in Vegas Pro as we never expected to exceed 32 threads before the year 2020. Guess what? This software supports 16 CPUs and a bit of threading. 

 
For our benchmark session, we output to XAVC S Long 3840x2160 - 59.94p, a very heavy encode. Video card assisted encoding is disabled. This is a real-world test, not a synthetic one and is based upon our own content and preferences. We take a two-minute game recording, add an audio track. The content is created with that new audio-track mixed in there as well as applying two video fp32 enhancement filters for contrast and sharpening. 

So yes, when the software supports 16 CPU cores and a bit of threading, it'll perform close to a 16-core counterpart. Unfortunately, the beautiful 64-threads are wasted here just because of this. Also due to the lower base-clock of the 2990WX, it'll be a notch slower. With Adobe Premiere though, this would look very different. Unfortunately, we cannot invest in multiple PC licenses for just the one Premiere test. Also, this is a realistic thing, not a lot of software will actually support or make use of the 64-threads available.