Movie Studio Platinum 15 & 4k Videos

wingspar2 wrote on 6/10/2021, 4:26 PM

I have not been editing videos for a couple of years and Movie Studio Platinum 15 is what I have.  I recently bought a new video cam capable of 4k videos, but when I try to edit a 4k video, the preview is jerky and unusable.  Is Movie Studio Platinum 15 capable of editing 4k videos?  If so, then I need to upgrade from my old onboard video.  I’m still on Win7.

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wingspar2 wrote on 6/10/2021, 4:28 PM

I don’t know why my post keeps ending up in the pro forum.  I’ve tried posting in the Vegas Movie Studio forum twice, and it keeps ending up here and I see no way to move it.

vkmast wrote on 6/10/2021, 4:34 PM

@wingspar2 moved to the MS forum.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/10/2021, 6:18 PM

Is Movie Studio Platinum 15 capable of editing 4k videos? 

Probably. I cannot remember for sure. But it's possibly your system that is giving you the poor performance.

As a guide have a look at the specs for VMS17 to see how you compare but be warned if you want to play with 17 you need Win 10.

Another thought, have you tried using proxies in your VMS15?

 

Dexcon wrote on 6/11/2021, 7:07 AM

The minimum specs for VMS Plat 15 could possibly be:

 

Microsoft Windows / 7 / 8 / 10 64-bit systems

Processor: 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D)
RAM: 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended; 16 GB recommended for 4K)
Graphics card: 512 MB GPU memory, Supported NVIDIA, AMD or Intel GPU (as listed below)
Hard drive space: 1.5 GB hard-disk space for program installation

NVIDIA
1 GB recommended for 4K - required for Smart Zoom/Smart Scale/Smart adaptive deinterlacing, and GPUaccelerated video processing.

For hardware rendering (NVEnc):
GeForce 600 series onwards (6xx, 7xx, 9xx, 10xx)
Quadro Kxxx, Mxxx and Pxxx

AMD/ATI
Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU and Catalyst driver 11.7 or later with a Radeon HD 57xx or higher GPU. If using a FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.85 or later is required.

Intel
Intel Skylake or newer processor required for QSV accelerated 8-bit HEVC/AVC decoding and encoding, Intel KabyLake or newer processor required for QSV accelerated 10-bit HEVC encoding and decoding.

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The above is from https://www.newegg.com/magix-anr008175box-t-platinum-version/p/N82E16832609239

As this is just from a random internet search, unfortunately I cannot attest to its accuracy.

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11:

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

 

LAPTOP:

Dell Inspiron 5310 EVO 13.3"

i5-11320H CPU

C Drive: 1TB Corsair Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD (upgraded from the original 500 GB SSD)

Monitor is 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

wingspar2 wrote on 6/11/2021, 10:14 PM

I exceed all those requirements except for the onboard video and the 16GB Ram is min for 4k video.  My question is...  Can Movie Studio Platinum 15 edit 4k video?  If it can, then I will upgrade my video card.  If it can’t, then I’ll figure out what I want to do from there. Below is what I have.

Win7 64bit

i7 3770 @ 3.4GHz

Onboard Intel HD Graphics 4000

16GB Ram

3POINT wrote on 6/12/2021, 12:59 AM

Yes, VMS15 can edit and render 4k videos, but I'm afraid not with a PC with shown configuration.

wingspar2 wrote on 6/12/2021, 1:55 AM

3POINT - Thank you.  That’s the answer I was looking for.  V15 isn’t really that old, people have been editing 4k videos for years, but I could not find that info anywhere.  Looks like upgrading my onboard video to a dedicated video card will allow me to edit 4k videos.  16GB ram is a minimum, so it may be a little slow unless I add some more ram.  I have plenty of slots.

I don’t do much video editing anymore, but as long as I have a video cam that is capable of 4k, why not try to use it.

3POINT wrote on 6/12/2021, 6:02 AM

On the pc with given specs, I would use proxies for 4k editing. Also I would compare a 4k render with a down scale to FHD render, to check if the whole effort is worthwhile to render to 4k.