heavy multicamera editing

fr0sty wrote on 11/12/2019, 10:39 AM

1. Upgrade to a modern Nvidia GPU (10 series or later, RTX preferred). The hardware decoding they support in Vegas can give lots of extra mileage when it comes to editing multicam smoothly.

2. In the mean time, make proxies. It takes some time, but if you go to your project media, CTRL+A to highlight all clips in the media pool, select "make video proxy" from the menu that appears when you right click on the clips, it will begin building proxies.

Proxies work in draft and preview quality only, if you set the preview monitor to good or best, you are seeing your full resolution clips again. The proxies are ignored when you go to render, Vegas will use your full resolution original clips instead.

Musicvid wrote on 11/12/2019, 10:44 AM

You haven't told us anything about your source footage.

Are they the same, mixed resolutions or formats, frame rates?

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

curt-danners wrote on 11/12/2019, 12:44 PM

thanks for the quick responses. i have looked around for cards that are available, GTX 1050 ti 's seem pretty reasonably priced. 4 gb, MSI areo, zoltac gtx and Evga gtx are available for 150.00. the RTX series are a little out of my price range right now. i will be doing an additional 32 gb of ram as well asap. is it worth going with the 1050 ti? i will also check the formats and frame rates when i get back home. i have used the same cameras for all my videos with no problems.

fr0sty wrote on 11/12/2019, 7:35 PM

Honestly, 32GB RAM is more than enough for Vegas as far as I can tell (I have 64, and Vegas never uses it all). I'd just add 16gb more, save going higher for when you upgrade your motherboard and CPU so you can swap it all at once for newer generation, faster RAM. I'd invest more in the GPU, it is where much of your performance is going to come from.

1050ti is on the bottom end of the totem pole as far as worthwhile upgrades go, but it'll definitely be better than your current GPU. I'd aim for the 16 series if the 20 series is out of reach.

fifonik wrote on 11/12/2019, 8:05 PM

1. Upgrade to a modern Nvidia GPU (10 series or later, RTX preferred). The hardware decoding they support in Vegas can give lots of extra mileage when it comes to editing multicam smoothly.

1/2 OFF: It is interesting to read recommendations to upgrade to NVidia GPU and then other recommendations to turn OFF the GPU to deal with VP crashes :)

@curt-danners Have you tried to find out your bottleneck? Is it storage sub-system limitations (may be you need to upgrade SATA drivers), CPU limitations or GPU? Open Task Manager | Performance and check what is going on there when you watching preview.

Also, it is not really clear for me if you are using GPU (RX 470 you mentioned) in VP or not.

BTW, do you have smooth preview for all your files placed on single track? It might be possible that some files not supported correctly because of well known here so4 issue and causing your system in multicam editing display slideshow.

And finally, what are your source files? If you are talking about 14 x 4K-60p, I do not think you will be able to have smooth preview without proxies at all.

fr0sty wrote on 11/12/2019, 9:02 PM

"1/2 OFF: It is interesting to read recommendations to upgrade to NVidia GPU and then other recommendations to turn OFF the GPU to deal with VP crashes :)"

Maybe if most people experienced those crashes, and needed to turn it off, I could see that, but for the most part GPU accel works.

For now, just use proxies. Save your money and get a beefy GPU and some RAM.