AV1 Encoding - Does Vegas support AV1 video before I purchase?

Tony-M78 wrote on 2/26/2023, 3:12 AM

Hi all.

 

Question before I pull the trigger on purchasing the latest version. I do a lot of gaming and editing and have had a 4090 for a while now. I want to be using the latest AV1 encoder when recording to make the video playback quality the best while also keeping the file size small which is what AV1 is designed to do. But I need to make sure that the latest version of Vegas does support this encoder and I'll have no problems dropping AV1 encoded videos into Vegas before purchase.

 

Thanks.

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RogerS wrote on 2/26/2023, 3:36 AM

AV1 isn't on the list of supported codecs so if you must use this over HEVC or similar formats you'll need to re-encode for Vegas. https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/specifications/

I tried it and the AV1 file I have here didn't load.

Dexcon wrote on 2/26/2023, 3:47 AM

Please refer to the officially supported formats listed on the Specifications webpage for Vegas Pro:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/specifications/#productMenu

Scroll down the page for the supported formats.

AV1 is not listed; however, there may be others on the forum who use AV1 and will therefore be in a position to report on AV1's performance in Vegas Pro.

Last year, this forum post mentions that the free Voukoder app apparently now includes support for AV1. Voukoder is easily accessible in the Render As window of Vegas Pro. You might want to get the trial version of Vegas Pro, install Voukoder and give it a try to see how it works for you,

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Tony-M78 wrote on 2/26/2023, 4:13 AM

ok thanks guys.

lan-mLMC wrote on 2/26/2023, 5:24 AM

I'll have no problems dropping AV1 encoded videos into Vegas.

Vegas can't do this.

wwaag wrote on 2/26/2023, 9:37 AM

For encoding, the latest build of HOS supports GPU-assisted AV1 rendering. I've only tested with the Intel A380 GPU, but it "should" work with the latest Nvidia and AMD GPUs as well that support AV1.

However, as others have mentioned, Vegas can't decode AV1 files.

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Howard-Vigorita wrote on 2/26/2023, 11:55 AM

Have a number of av1 test clips and Vegas cannot open any of them. MPC-Be and MPC-Hc can play them, however. Resolve (free version) and ffmpeg can read and transcode them. HOS seems to be leading edge writing hardware accelerated av1... cudos to @wwaag on that.