H. 265 Clips Crash Vegas Pro 17 and my Computer

markr041 wrote on 5/19/2020, 3:29 PM

I shoot HEVC clips using both the GoPro Hero 8 and the Z Cam E2. For both type of clips, on importing into Vegas Pro 17 (latest) the program crashes and often the computer crashes. Over and over. I have an Nvidia graphics card GTX 1050 Ti. I have tried disabling all hardware acceleration or using defaults. Nothing stops this. I have an Intel i7, 8th generation, with 16 GB of RAM and Windows 10. I can read both types of clips with no problem in Edius Pro and in Resolve Studio. Vegas Pro 17 reads H 264 clips fine and even ProRes 422 HQ clips fine. It is just H. 265 clips that cause havoc.

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Howard-Vigorita wrote on 5/21/2020, 9:14 AM

Is your GPU set to be used as the decoder in the file i/o menu of preferences? If so, keep in mind there's some limitations to GPU decoding currently... like, for instance, my GPU (Radeon 7) cannot decode my Panasonic S1 footage because it is 10 bit 4:2:2, and it only supports up to 10 bit 4:2:0 hardware decoding. This is a limitation of the GPU itself, not Vegas.

It's also a limitation of the human eye which can only discern 4:2:0, all camera sensors which capture only 4:2:0, and probably why all gpu's only decode 4:2:0. Which is a large reason why I went with a z-cam e2 which yields 10-bit 4:2:0 footage.