Preview of stills effects

JohnAsh wrote on 2/5/2023, 2:50 AM

I have had my 7 year old PC updated with a new motherboard, 16gb RAM and i7 processor. It certainly speeds editing up and my edited video I can preview in high quality, including dissolves.

However, the travel video I edit contains, at the end of each day, a selection of the best jpg stills that we took on that day. These dissolve from one to another, but preview is still as stuttering as it was before.

The AMD Radeon R7 370 was retained in my PC as I could not afford any more upgrades. I've tried turning 'Optimise GPU display performance' on/off to no effect. Also 'GPU Acceleration of Video Processing".

I'm a bit disappointed after quite a lot of hassle with the upgrade (the guy forgot to connect one of my hard disks and left in a noisy fan in instead of changing it).

Any tips on previewing stills with effects would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 2/5/2023, 3:40 AM

Leave optimize on, and GPU acceleration should be kept on with your AMD selected.

For previewing the stills can you reduce quality (best/auto, preview/full or preview/auto)?

EricLNZ wrote on 2/5/2023, 3:48 AM

What is the image size of your stills compared to your project image size? Are they much larger and having to be downsized by Vegas?

3POINT wrote on 2/5/2023, 3:52 AM

However, the travel video I edit contains, at the end of each day, a selection of the best jpg stills that we took on that day. These dissolve from one to another, but preview is still as stuttering as it was before.

That's probably because you're using hires pictures. When not using pan/crop features to animate these pictures and only use them as stills, resizing them to project resolution before importing them into Vegas should solve your preview issue.

JohnAsh wrote on 2/5/2023, 5:24 AM

Yes, I'm importing them at full size, so that's the issue. I can use Fast Image Resizer to do them in bulk. Thank you all for the solution!