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Robert-Butts wrote on 5/22/2020, 7:02 AM

I thank everybody greatly for your help. The weird thing is - at least it's weird to me - is that I have been creating music videos for years with Vegas (including the version I now have installed) and have always mixed all kinds of videos - photos, graphics, art, music, voice, sounds, videos in various formats, etc - and have always had great results. Then all of a sudden, every time I imported one of my photos, it automatically became low-resolution - looked fine in the preview window, but resolved all jagged and distorted. I'd go back and open one of the old vegas project files that included the same photos and render and they'd be perfect, try a new project and import the same photo and bang it'd be all distorted. All seems really strange to me and I'm sure I either must have clicked on some setting I shouldn't have or there is some weird bug that came out of nowhere or - I have no idea what might have changed. Again - thank you greatly for sharing your thoughts and suggestions.

 

michael-harrison wrote on 5/22/2020, 9:50 AM

@Robert-Butts

What version of VP are you using?

This part is critical "looked fine in the preview window, but resolved all jagged and distorted. I'd go back and open one of the *old vegas project files* that included the same photos and render and they'd be perfect,"

The "old vegas project files" must have a setting that's different from what you're using now by default.

When you start a new project, are you starting from File-New or do you use an existing project as a template?

System 1:

Windows 10
i9-10850K 10 Core
128.0G RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 Studio driver [most likely latest]
Resolution        3840 x 2160 x 60 hertz
Video Memory 12G GDDR5

 

System 2:

Lenovo Yoga 720
Core i7-7700 2.8Ghz quad core, 8 logical
16G ram
Intel HD 630 gpu 1G vram
Nvidia GTX 1050 gpu 2G vram

 

Robert-Butts wrote on 5/23/2020, 6:54 AM

Hi, Michael - thank you for your response. I am using Vegas 16. Probably I suppose should upgrade though it gets expensive to upgrade every year. Oh well. I mix - sometimes I start with File-New and sometimes just use an existing project.

Dexcon wrote on 5/23/2020, 6:59 AM

@michael-harrison … re upgrading … unless its critical to do so now, it may be worthwhile waiting for Vegas Pro 18's release which would likely be in August (3 months from now) if the timing of previous new versions over the last 4 years is anything to go by.

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 20, 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

michael-harrison wrote on 5/23/2020, 9:40 AM

@Dexcon You meant to respond to @Robert-Butts

@Robert-Butts

Have you compared the working-old projects with the non-working projects to see what the differences are?

If you have some projects that work fine, the problem isn't with the software per-se, it's with some setting/fx/event in the broken project.

System 1:

Windows 10
i9-10850K 10 Core
128.0G RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 Studio driver [most likely latest]
Resolution        3840 x 2160 x 60 hertz
Video Memory 12G GDDR5

 

System 2:

Lenovo Yoga 720
Core i7-7700 2.8Ghz quad core, 8 logical
16G ram
Intel HD 630 gpu 1G vram
Nvidia GTX 1050 gpu 2G vram

 

Robert-Butts wrote on 5/24/2020, 10:05 AM

I agree - I think it's some setting that somehow got by mistake changed, but darned if I can find what the difference might be at all.

Marco. wrote on 5/24/2020, 10:11 AM

If possible share your project file with us (upload to Dropbox, Google Drive or similar).