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RogerS wrote on 6/7/2025, 6:13 AM

You need to convert it for use in VEGAS. It's not really used for editing. Try AVC, HEVC or AV1.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 6/7/2025, 10:19 AM

@aaronstanley75 If you don't want to throw away any of your FFV1 archival detail, you would need to convert to another lossless format Vegas can read. Lossless hevc works but is very processor intensive. There's also a 3rd party lossless codec with Vegas support I've tried that is inexpensive and edit friendly... MagicYUV.

aaronstanley75 wrote on 6/7/2025, 11:17 AM

Thanks for your feedback guys, it's a shame that Vegas Pro can't import FFV1, do you know if in the next version 23 we will be able to import this format? It would be really great if we could.

 

andyrpsmith wrote on 6/7/2025, 12:31 PM

@aaronstanley75 If you don't want to throw away any of your FFV1 archival detail, you would need to convert to another lossless format Vegas can read. Lossless hevc works but is very processor intensive. There's also a 3rd party lossless codec with Vegas support I've tried that is inexpensive and edit friendly... MagicYUV.

Just encoded a 23 min 4k video with 8bit 4:2:0 YUV = 163GB, the stunning AV1 at 53Mbit/s 7GB. The yuv is fast to render 112fps 5 min.

(Intel 3rd gen i5@4.1GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, 1080Ti GPU, Windows 10) Not now used with Vegas.

13th gen i913900K - water cooled, 96GB RAM, 4TB M2 drive, 4TB games SSD, 2TB video SSD, GPU RTX 4080 Super, Windows 11 pro

RogerS wrote on 6/7/2025, 7:45 PM

Nothing is known about VP23 yet.

FayFen wrote on 6/12/2025, 8:44 AM

Wikipedia say on FFV1 and VP "Decoding possible after installing K-Lite codec pack; encoding possible after installing the Voukoder plugin"

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 6/14/2025, 7:24 PM

@aaronstanley75 Turns out ffmpeg has built in support for reading ffv1 and rendering magicyuv which vp22 can then read without a plugin. I was able to transcode one of my raw camera clips from lossless hevc to both ffv1 and magicyuv with ffmpeg. Vegas reads the magicyuv clip and so do my external viewers. The magicyuv clip comes up perfect across the board on quality analysis. Here is the ffmpeg ffv1 to magicyuv conversion script I used:

ffmpeg -y -i "ffv1-lossless.mov" -c:v magicyuv -an magicyuv.avi

And here's the quality analysis comparing the ffv1 and magicyuv clips to the lossless hevc source clip:

Btw, magicyuv was about 25% smaller that ffv1. Lossless hevc was the smallest, but harder to play smoothly.