I wonder if you could recommend a lower camera setting that would relieve the burden on my computer without drastically degrading the quality? Maybe cut the Mbps?

Or dang it, if I go ahead and buy a NVIDIA Quadro? Or is the NVIDIA 1060 better? I sincerely appreciate your expertise! (I have none)

Are you using proxy files? If not it could solve your problem avoiding upgrading and reducing your camera shooting quality.

EricLNZ, thanks for that idea.

I had to look up "proxy files"...and I think Vegas Movie Studio creates proxy files when I dump them into the project....because my original raw footage is totally untouched. Doesn't this mean I am editing from a proxy file?

After studying proxy files a bit more....I think I am NOT editing using proxy. Would some sort of conversion software work for this....like Handbrake or Format Factory? Any recommendations? That could really be the solution for my budget!

No it's simple - Options/ Preferences - Video Tab. Click the box "Automatically create video proxies for Ultra HD media". That's all. You may have to manually create proxies for clips already on the timeline. Right click on an item in Media Pane and select "Create Video Proxy" They can take a few minutes to create but once done forget about them. They appear as sfvp0 files in the folder containing your original media. They are 720p files which strangely appear to always have a framerate of 29.97 even if your source is PAL.

As I don't do 4K at all, and don't have VMS14 yet, I will just throw one more parameter Lora and that's is , (as you didn't write what type of work you do ) do you realy need that 4K at 100Mbps ?

Wow, thank you for that helpful info, Eric. I went to "preferences" and my setting was ON, but I have never ever noticed a svp0 file in with my originials...so maybe I'll try it manually. It's worth a shot!

Fayfen, yes, I am doing "professional" work on a shoe string budget. I have violin lessons that are PERMANENT content, and so it's in my best interest to try to plan for future demands.....better, bigger, faster, super duper ultra HD in 10-D with foot warmers and jerky snacks.

Definitely look at proxies. I work in HD and without proxies it wouldn't be possible at all - or would be extremely frustrating. Ï would expect even more so in 4K. In my MS14 installation, they're not created by default, but you have to tell the system to create them explicitly: you simply select some video media, right click, and chose "Create Video Proxy".

Creating proxies is always the first step for me as soon as I've copied the footage to the disk. t can be a slow process, so it's best to process many files at a time.. but as I've experienced crashes when processing a lot of large files at the same time, what I do is to select a bunch at a time and do something else in the meanwhile, saving the project between bunches.

Chris, thanks for this info. I really appreciate your time and expertise. I tried creating proxies by opening a project, going to "project media", right clicking on a video......by my option to "create video proxy" is not activated....it's just in grey. What the heck am I doing wrong?

Chris, thanks for this info. I really appreciate your time and expertise. I tried creating proxies by opening a project, going to "project media", right clicking on a video......by my option to "create video proxy" is not activated....it's just in grey. What the heck am I doing wrong?

Possibly because it has already been created automatically if your source is 4K and you have Options/ Preferences - Video Tab "Automatically create video proxies for Ultra HD media" ticked.

Thanks, Cornico. I'm going to have to research this further....because my option to "create video proxies" is greyed out, but I have never seen these proxy files....in 5 years of using Vegas.

The proxy files appear in the folder on your pc where your source files are. They have the same name but with sfvp0 suffix.