Best settings for video encoding

I'm forced to use my Windows 7 virtual machine to properly encode video for a proprietary device. I added more CPU's to the VM and RAM to hopefully allow it to have more resources to encode the video faster.

What I'm wondering is if setting in the options to "Performance: Faster Virtual Machine" will make the VM encode video faster at all? Or does it just make the VM's GUI more responsive?

In other words, what does changing the "Performance" setting REALLY DO? Does it give the VM more CPU cycles? Or RAM? Or both? Or something else?

I'd rather leave it set to "Faster Mac" if it won't make any difference with video encoding. By the way, I'm using Parallels 7.

Thanks.

 

Figured I would bump this up past all the rampant spam I'm seeing in this forum. Anyone with a quick answer to above?

tl;dr: Will setting "Performance: Faster Virtual Machine" make encoding video on the virtual machine faster at all?

 

Hello??? Answer please?

 

The Performance option shouldn't have any noticeable effect on video encoder, setting it to Faster Mac doesn't limit guest CPU utilization. What affects encoding performance the most is the number of vCPUs assigned to your VM, if your encoder supports multithreading at all.

 

The effect of "Faster Mac" or "Faster Virtual Machine" is only noticeable when both OSs are competing for CPU time and, as such, determines the priority in that situation, but if you are not running anything on OS X that competes for CPU time when you are doing the encoding then it's irrelevant.

 

That's what I kind of figured. Thank you both for your help.