New video engine coming in the next update this month?

marchwill wrote on 3/1/2024, 4:26 PM

Hello!

I recently read on Twitter/X about an Update 3 coming to VEGAS Pro 21 and I thought I'd ask the devs if this update is gonna include the new video engine that was mentioned on several posts in here last year. I've been looking forward to the improved render times since it was mentioned, do you guys have any news about it? If it's not coming yet, do we have any idea when it'll be available?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

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lan-mLMC wrote on 3/1/2024, 7:29 PM

the new video engine that was mentioned on several posts in here last year.

Do you mean what Derek said here? https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/new-video-engine-in-vegas--143158/#ca895245

  • In general, fixing the bottlenecks (and we have many of them) in decoding, color conversion and fx processing will all contribute to improved render times (as Roger has stated) as well as the obvious boost in playback performance. We are working on all three of these areas right now. I know users have been anxious for these sort of improvements in VEGAS for a long time, and I will continue to ask for patience on this. We've promised performance improvements in the past but have not delivered. That has primarily been due to lack of the engineering resources required for this work. That has now changed and we do have expert engineers with our team who have done some impressive work on similar pieces of code in other software products. We are making progress and we hope to have something to show in the first half of 2024. In fact, some of the initial changes will be in the hands of our beta testers before the end of the year.

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I recently read on Twitter/X about an Update 3 coming to VEGAS Pro 21 and I thought I'd ask the devs if this update is gonna include the new video engine that was mentioned on several posts in here last year.

According to Derek's reply here, the answer seems to be yes. https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-21-build-208-general-thread--143826/?page=5#ca906849

  • A new update is in progress. We had hoped to release it much earlier than this, but the video engine work is taking longer to stabilize than we had planned. The update is coming and it should be a very good one.

 

lan-mLMC wrote on 3/1/2024, 7:33 PM

have something to show in the first half of 2024

The entire rework of the video engine will take a very long time to complete. We plan to roll out improvements incrementally and we hope to have several improvements available before the maintenance cycle for VEGAS Pro 21 is over. The changes will continue into future for the next version of VEGAS as well.

Based on this, I guess VP21 will only show some improvement of video engines. the bigger video engine change will happen in VP22.

marchwill wrote on 3/1/2024, 7:51 PM

Yea that was it. Didn't see there was a new post earlier today! Good to know it's coming this month, thanks!

VEGASDerek wrote on 3/2/2024, 6:28 AM

Please be aware that the idea of a "new video engine" is a long, incremental process. The first steps will hopefully be released soon, the ultimate dream will not be completed for some time yet.