Vegas 20 pro not running smoothly

Yazcui wrote on 1/1/2024, 3:06 PM

My laptop specs are Intel i7 12700H Win 11 16GB ram with a GeForce RTX 350 Ti (4gb). Editing off a samsung t7 external ssd.

I'm trying to edit mostly 4k 24p h.265 files, mixed with some h.264 1080p. For the most part it's decently smooth, but I am experiencing a strange hangup. For example, I throw all my media on the timeline that might total 30-50 minutes and if I click away from the vegas window, and try to go back, my cursor goes turns into the busy indicator and eventually "not responding." It looks like it might crash, but if I wait at least 60 seconds, everything will be normal. However, if I click off or minimize vegas and come back, even immediately, the whole process starts over.

The thing is I wasn't experiencing this in the past, but I might have been editing mostly 1080p back then. Not sure if that's the issue though. Any tips or setting changes I can try?

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bvideo wrote on 1/1/2024, 3:58 PM

One factor is the Options->Preference [General] tab setting: "[x] Close media files when not the active application"

That makes Vegas go through reopening all the events when it gets back into focus. Something about loading those particular files takes Vegas a while. So you can uncheck that option.

Dexcon wrote on 1/1/2024, 4:14 PM

Many including myself have had difficulties with getting good timeline performance when H.265 (HEVC) video is on the timeline - often the more HEVC video that there is, the greater the problem on the timeline. This even applies with Vegas Pro 21 but others on the forum have mentioned that the Vegas team is working on improving HEVC performance (no doubt only applying to later VP21 updates).

Check Options/Preferences/File I/O (tab) and the "Enable experimental HEVC decoding" option. If it is not checked, check via its checkbox and see if that results in any timeline improvement. If it is already checked, uncheck and test again. If not success there, you may need to enable proxies in Vegas Pro which should improve timeline performance using the Draft or Preview settings for the Preview Window. Otherwise, transcode the HEVC video to .mp4 (AVC) or anoher preferred format via a free transcoder such as Handbrake or Shutter Encoder.

Yazcui wrote on 1/2/2024, 3:06 PM

One factor is the Options->Preference [General] tab setting: "[x] Close media files when not the active application"

That makes Vegas go through reopening all the events when it gets back into focus. Something about loading those particular files takes Vegas a while. So you can uncheck that option.

Thanks that seemed to do the trick for the hangups so far!

Yazcui wrote on 1/2/2024, 3:08 PM

Many including myself have had difficulties with getting good timeline performance when H.265 (HEVC) video is on the timeline - often the more HEVC video that there is, the greater the problem on the timeline. This even applies with Vegas Pro 21 but others on the forum have mentioned that the Vegas team is working on improving HEVC performance (no doubt only applying to later VP21 updates).

Check Options/Preferences/File I/O (tab) and the "Enable experimental HEVC decoding" option. If it is not checked, check via its checkbox and see if that results in any timeline improvement. If it is already checked, uncheck and test again. If not success there, you may need to enable proxies in Vegas Pro which should improve timeline performance using the Draft or Preview settings for the Preview Window. Otherwise, transcode the HEVC video to .mp4 (AVC) or anoher preferred format via a free transcoder such as Handbrake or Shutter Encoder.

Thanks. Where would I go to enable proxies?

RogerS wrote on 1/2/2024, 6:28 PM

Right click on the media and "create video proxy."

Dexcon wrote on 1/2/2024, 6:44 PM

Just to clarify ... R click the media in the Project Media window as the 'Create Video Proxy' option is not available by R clicking the media on either the timeline or in the Explorer window (not on my laptop anyway).

Yazcui wrote on 1/2/2024, 10:13 PM

Just to clarify ... R click the media in the Project Media window as the 'Create Video Proxy' option is not available by R clicking the media on either the timeline or in the Explorer window (not on my laptop anyway).

Oh I see. Easy enough. Seems like I'd want to do that for every project.