Sony Vegas Pro video preview lagging but only when having two layers

oskar-larsen wrote on 9/17/2021, 6:34 AM

So i've been using vegas for ages and with no issues, 3 days ago i had to reinstall vegas due to something i thought was a bug in vegas but in reality it was something else. when reinstalling i had to change a bunch of stuff to get it back as i had it, but all of a sudden vegas just crashed every 10-20 seconds all the time, i then forgot i on my early vegas had legacy AVC encoding and HEVC on, witch i remembered fixed the crashes. so i enabled that again and it did infact fix the crahses. But now when i edit everything is fine, but as soon as i work with multiple of the same layers, fx the way i add webcam over gameplay is copy the original file over the gameplay and fit it to be the webcam (recorded in 3840x1080 so two 1080 displays one webcam one gameplay) so whenever i do this witch i have to do, my preview becomes 1-3 frames a second where as right before adding another layer its 30fps all the time.

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walter-i. wrote on 9/17/2021, 6:56 AM

It must be an old version of Vegas that you are using, because since about 6 years ago it is no longer Sony but Magix who is the owner.

To answer your questions, you should not only give information about your version / build no. but also about the system environment and the media info of your media files that are causing problems.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

 

oskar-larsen wrote on 9/17/2021, 7:53 AM

Hi Walter, so i'm running vegas 19 build (341) mistake saying sony vegas, i've just always called it that. heres some more gifs about the issue: This is me showing how everything works fine with one video file, does not matter ifi have 20 subtitle layers or 25 overlays on top it's still running smooth 30fps preview https://gyazo.com/5b0144047ce1b31e0246ff3852da3926

Now this is what happens when i copy the video file and paste it right above and pancrop it as i would do when putting the webcam correctly on top https://gyazo.com/c42045bce0a7e30b19d43042e6a9c748

oskar-larsen wrote on 9/17/2021, 7:55 AM

now this is how i've received and edited footage for about a year with absolutely no probmlem what so ever, but 3 days ago i ran in to a bug related to something else, in attempt to fix it i reinstalled vegas, witch helped with that issue but then caused this. now i uninstalled vegas 18 downloaded vegas 19 and this is still hapening, note that i can edit any kind of video for as long as i want with as many effects i want and it's still smooth 30fps preview, but as soon as i do this it bugs out. so i know it's a bug and not something i've done or a hardware issue, i actually noticed after uninstalling vegas and installing vegas 19 i still had the same plugins and such, so i wonder if the bug migrated with the upgrade. how do i uninstall vegas completely to factory?

Dexcon wrote on 9/17/2021, 8:03 AM

how do i uninstall vegas completely to factory?

See point 14 for resetting Vegas Pro back to the factory default in:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-faqs-and-troubleshooting-guides--104787/

Point 38 covers doing a full clean uninstall.

Please note that many versions of Vegas Pro can happily co-exist on the same computer at the same time. Uninstalling Vegas Pro 18 is most unlikely to make any difference to the performance of Vegas Pro 19.

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oskar-larsen wrote on 9/17/2021, 8:19 AM

thank you for the reply,

UPDATE: i just put the raw footage into handbrake and endocded it, turns out when importing into vegas it fixed the issue! now i don't wanna go around having to encode all my videos waiting 30 minutes each time, so if anyone finds a fix that would be great, some of you might think "we'll then it's just the footage that's something wrong with" but no the guy recording the video that sent it to me says he can work with it fine no issues. so yea it's weird. i've decided to record videos with him in another way that does not incluce having to copy paste the same video file, so everything will be good. but still want to find a fix incase anyone else run into this

walter-i. wrote on 9/17/2021, 10:03 AM

How are we supposed to help you if you're not even willing to provide the media information I asked for above?
It will probably be a variable frame rate file format that Vegas doesn't handle very well.

Regarding SONY and Vegas - https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/de/forum/sony-vegas-vs-vegas--119881/

john_dennis wrote on 9/17/2021, 3:26 PM

"...so if anyone finds a fix that would be great..."

I find it tedious to fix things that weren't broken yesterday or last week or last month. I rarely do that nonsense.

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