Sony Vegas 10 Lag Issue

gsnug wrote on 4/8/2015, 1:42 AM
My Sony Vegas 10 begins to lag when importing video clips (.mov) into a new project. Some of the clips are all black and cannot be previewed at all. When I minimize the Sony vegas program, and maximize it again, there's a loading lag as well.

These video clips are sent to me from WeTransfer AND also downloaded from a FTP server via Filezilla...this problem ONLY applies to the video clips from Filezilla. The .mov files I get from WeTransfer are perfectly fine.

Do you think the problem is with Filezilla, or due to some setting in Windows?

This problem came up after restoring my computer.

Please help, so I can narrow down this process of elimination, thx!

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/8/2015, 5:56 AM
So before you restored your computer the same clips loaded fine? I'd figure it's because they're quicktime (since QT loads external codecs & drivers) & using HDV/DVAVI would eliminate the issues.
gsnug wrote on 4/8/2015, 4:12 PM
My mistake, the problem actually came up before I restored the computer...it came up after a Windows update in November 2014. After the update, the lag issues were even slower than it is now, Vegas kept crashing and couldn't re-open properly...which is why I chose to restore the computer. After restoring, Vegas was a bit better, but this lag issue is still occurring.

The strange thing is that I can currently edit Quicktime .Mov files perfectly in Vegas without any lag issue, but these files are sent via WeTransfer as opposed to Filezilla.

To test if Filezilla was the source of the problem, the sender sent the same files via WeTransfer, and the problem persists. I'm unsure if the sender's computer is the issue (which he says is not the case, since he sent it to another person and it worked fine), or if it's my computer settings. Any thoughts? Thx.
videoITguy wrote on 4/8/2015, 4:54 PM
A mov is not a mov and is still not a mov. MOV is a container - from whomever you are getting the file, they place a given codec inside the container. You must compare the codecs, the expression of your difficulty over a mov tells us next to nothing.
gsnug wrote on 4/15/2015, 2:46 PM
He says it's h.264 in the MOV container. What next?
videoITguy wrote on 4/15/2015, 3:41 PM
I don't work with h264, but I recall others on this forum have suggested a trick in the past is to rename the extension in a windows environ. This does not rewrap the container or really do anything but trick Vegas and Win OS. Since I don't work with this - you will need to query others about this trick.