The video starts to lag very bad and it doesn't stop.

Juan-Garcia wrote on 6/20/2023, 9:19 PM

So in case you guys will need to know my pc specs
AMD 5900x (12 core)

Radeon 6900 XT

32GB of RAM (3200mhz)

Imported the files from a SanDisk exreme external ssd

Let me know if there's more that you need to help me out.

The problem is that I'm trying to edit a video but the video is extremely laggy. It constantly crashes and I tried setting reducing the resolution for the video preview. Is there a way to make the editing smoother?

Do I need to upgrade my ram for more speed?

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RogerS wrote on 6/20/2023, 9:50 PM

It's not the ram it's the media.

So... what is the media? https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

Juan-Garcia wrote on 6/20/2023, 10:39 PM



I know I'm doing something wrong. You asked for the media. I downloaded the media info and opened the folder for my video on the app but this is all that it's telling me.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/20/2023, 10:42 PM

@Juan-Garcia As Nick Hopes instructions say switch it to text view ("View" > "Text")

j-v wrote on 6/21/2023, 4:27 AM

@Juan-Garcia you must open the used videofile(s), not the projectfile

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Juan-Garcia wrote on 6/21/2023, 9:04 PM

this is the video file.

RogerS wrote on 6/21/2023, 9:10 PM

VEGAS can really struggle with variable framerate video (which isn't intended for editing anyway). Was this captured with OBS? If so we can help with OBS settings.

I'd run it through ShutterEncoder https://www.shutterencoder.com/ and make it into constant framerate AVC or ProRes and then replace the file in VEGAS.

Former user wrote on 6/21/2023, 9:20 PM

@Juan-Garcia Hi, this is the first time I'm going to say this, I read on forums people saying "it's because your media is variable, convert it to constant" . Logic says 100% that a constant vid will perform better than a variable one but all of my media is variable, I don't notice a great deal if any improvement when I convert it to constant & I don't have noticeable problems with variable, some of mine is very varied! 🤣, but as i say this is 1st time I've said you need to convert that to constant,

Min 1.463 - Max 60.235 is a lot worse than anything i have, Handbrake is one converter but others might suggest other converters, (I have Adobe Media Encoder that converts files to ProRes which work very well in Vegas)

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PS, I've used Magix Edit for 20yrs, I suspect all my media has been variable as it has all come from phones, I've never had to think about converting it, not until I started using Vegas a few yrs ago did I have to learn & start converting to get better playback, Also there's 1000s of people using phone footage & editing software that don't convert their files, It wouldn't surprise if 90% of people don't even know what that would mean, so the software manufacturers must be taking into account the variable software that's being used,

PPS that isn't a gripe just a statement.

RogerS wrote on 6/21/2023, 9:37 PM

FWIW, phone footage and screen captures can be quite different file types.

I also get away with using phone footage directly from recent smartphones but had terrible crashing using unoptimized Zoom footage for example as soon as I added a second track of it. Replacing the media solved the issues.

Handbrake works fine- try the production standard presets to start with. I find ShutterEncoder harder to mess up.

Former user wrote on 6/21/2023, 11:19 PM

Yeah, I've noticed a few people have struggled with OBS captures, I record the screen with Nvidia Geforce, UHD screen so 3840x2160 60p capture, editing that in Vegas is a little slower than my 60p phone clips & rendering is similarly slower.

My vids are simple cuts with a 12fr crossfade, no extra fx's added except the odd bit of masking, I got Vegas a few yrs ago to use Mocha to help masking my van reg plate, I soon found that editing & rendering was slower than Magix Edit Pro, (now Magix Movie Studio (MMS)) so out of the 390 vids I have on YT only 10-15 have been made with Vegas, I went back to using MMS & use Vegas as an fxs program/editor,

The majority of those 390 vids are 15-20mins long & are made up from 10-40 phone clips, so if you take the absolute minimum of 250 vids made of 10 clips each that's 2500 phone clips (in reality prob more) & none of them have i converted to constant before editing. So when I hear "Convert to constant" to me that is either old hat or it's Vegas that needs that, I'm learning that's it's a bit of both combined.

Reyfox wrote on 6/22/2023, 3:10 AM

With VFR, I've had mixed results. Some work fine on the Vegas timeline. Others, not so much. That is when I will use Handbrake/Shutter Encoder.

I've edited webinars without issue and they were VFR. It's a "hit or miss" for me.

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