Some minor suggestions

hakai-k wrote on 5/20/2018, 5:04 PM

Hello,

I've been using VEGAS Pro for years now to edit videos and have really gotten the hang of it. Switching to any other editing software seems impossible now that I'm so used to working in VEGAS Pro.

So I've decided to write a short list of suggestions that, if implemented, would really improve it for a lot of people.

It's no secret that a lot of Gaming YouTubers (including me) use VEGAS Pro to edit their videos so fast rendering times are highly valuable.

The solution to that is of course GPU acceleration. I like what MAGIX did with VP15, there's NVENC and Intel QSV that can render videos drastically faster by using nVidia GPUs or Intel Integrated GPUs.

Here are some of my suggestions:

The color of the exported video using MAGIX AAC / AVC format is a bit too blank somehow, can that be improved with a different default color space?
When using NVENC, it renders a number of frames, pauses, renders a number of frames, pauses and it does that all the time while rendering. I don't know the reason for that, but if that could be made so that it just keeps rendering from start to finish, it would be great and even more time saving.
AMD VCE encoder would be a welcome addition to MAGIX AAC / AVC format for AMD GPU users.
Stability when using any kind of GPU acceleration for rendering is kinda shaky, I don't have to do much on my PC to make VP crash while rendering or to simply make parts of the video completely black. Improvements in stability would be welcome.
More "behind the scenes" control over the rendered video quality for NVENC, AMD VCE (if added in the future) and QSV.
GPU acceleration doesn't seem like it does much with accelerating video preview while editing the video and when turned on, it easily crashes VP15 if I leave the video running in the background in VP so I really have to be careful about what I'm doing on my PC. Improvements in stability would, once again, be welcome.

Aside from a fresh and a more modern look, I can't describe how happy I personally was to get NVENC in VP15 for rendering out videos. Constant QP mode in NVENC RC Mode is something I can't live without anymore, it simply sets the bit rate of the video just enough so that it looks nice and clean, never more or less than required.

Before VP15, in previous versions I used Mainconcept AVC / AAC which even with GPU acceleration turned on would take around 2 hours to render a 15 minutes long QHD 60 FPS gameplay video, because it would mostly hammer down the CPU (i5 6600k in my case) and the GPU did nearly nothing. That's why I'm happy to have NVENC now, it does the same job in around 45 minutes.

Can't wait to see improvements in future updates for VP15 and everything VP16 will bring once released.

Comments

fr0sty wrote on 5/20/2018, 9:09 PM

My one suggestion: Create a means of user input that can be voted on. Sony does this with PlayStation. They have a site you can go submit suggestions to, as you type in the suggestion it does a search to see if similar suggestions have already been posted. If you don't see one pop up, you submit it. Then the community can vote on them, and the ones that get the most votes get top priority on the upcoming features list.

Let your community guide you, the ones out there using the product in the wild. Since Vegas is currently having to play catch-up on a number of different technologies that are becoming standard elsewhere, this could help prioritize things so you know that what you are working on is what is in the most demand, and not just for a few very vocal users, but the entire community.

Then, post a link to this site directly into Vegas and make sure all users see it, not just the ones who come to the forums.