VEGAS Pro 15 Update 6 (build 384) - General Discussion

Deva-Bida wrote on 7/27/2018, 2:16 AM

When will be fixed the Vegas Titles & Text font list after many new versions and new updates ?

An idea that I have for an next Vegas Pro version : possibility to zoom in/out the video in the preview screen.

An other idea that I have is to save a list of fonts that where used in a project. This is very useful when you open a Vegas-project on another pc where not the same fonts where installed. And so we know with fonts must be installed on a other pc to render the Vegas-project correctly !!

Greetings Ami

I've just come to VP after a decade of Final Cut Pro 7, and I am missing the image zoom, as zooming to assess adjustments such as sharpening or color correction of skin tones, or any other time I want to pixel peep is a regular part of my workflow.

So, just to clarify and make this a question:

** Is there not an equivalent of that in VP?

I know it's not the same but right clicking on the image in Preview and deselecting "Scale Video to Fit Preview Window" results in the Preview image displaying at 100%. Use the Pan/Crop tool to move the 100% scale image around in the Preview window to see the part of the image you want to view.

If 100% is too much, you can use the Pan/Crop tool to increase the width/height, which has the effect of decreasing the display size of your scale deselected image.

Former user wrote on 7/27/2018, 5:01 AM

@Deva-Bida Re: lost connection...

Would the state of “\Options\Preferences\General\Close media files when not the active application “ make any difference?

digilyd wrote on 7/27/2018, 5:42 AM

I still miss a "lock in time" for clips on the timeline, not a total lock, just a lock so that they DO NOT MOVE ONCE ALIGNED, SERIOUSLY!

Dexcon wrote on 7/29/2018, 5:09 AM

I still miss a "lock in time" for clips on the timeline

Have you tried grouping? Highlight the events that you want to lock (group in Vegas-speak) and hit the g key. The selected events will then all be grouped (locked) together. To ungroup, select the events and then hit the u key. This also works across video and audio tracks

OldSmoke wrote on 7/29/2018, 8:02 AM

I still miss a "lock in time" for clips on the timeline

Have you tried grouping? Highlight the events that you want to lock (group in Vegas-speak) and hit the g key. The selected events will then all be grouped (locked) together. To ungroup, select the events and then hit the u key. This also works across video and audio tracks

@Dexcon While grouping is nice and I use it a lot, it doesn’t lock the event on the timeline in time, you could still move it left to right. Locking an event in time can be useful and prevent accidental movements especially when you use ripple edit.

Dexcon wrote on 7/29/2018, 8:29 AM

@OldSmoke I'm just a bit confused here … if you're using ripple and you change the length of an earlier event + or - , I would want the grouped event to adjust accordingly otherwise all the other events L and R of the "locked" group will be dispositioned relative to the locked to the timeline group. If you want set a specific point for a group, you could perhaps set a marker at that point and edit all the previous events to end at that point.

Deva-Bida wrote on 7/30/2018, 12:45 AM

Some strangeness to report with keyboard shortcuts and hang.

I was doing some timeline edits and noticed that some of the keyboard shortcuts were misbehaving.

\ (backslash) would not center the timeline cursor.

[ ] (open close brackets would not move between start/end points of events, but would only move back and forth between one event's start and the loop region in point.

Within 2 minutes the spinning blue wheel appeared and the app was hung.

vkmast wrote on 7/30/2018, 2:57 AM

What's the keyboard layout you are using?

Aadil wrote on 7/31/2018, 10:58 AM

Hey, I have missed all the other builds, I just have the 1st build of sony vegas pro 15, so If i download directly build 384 will I get all the other past patches in this?

vkmast wrote on 7/31/2018, 11:36 AM

@Aadil yes. That'll be Magix Vegas Pro 15 build 384 though due to this.

BOP5 wrote on 7/31/2018, 5:27 PM

Do I really have to uninstall the current install of Vegas 15 to install this update? I double click on the downloaded file and it warns me Vegas 15 is already installed, if I want to re-install I need to uninstall first. Is there no way to just upgrade?

Paul.Fierlinger wrote on 8/1/2018, 10:50 AM

I just got an announcement through the Help/News tab that Vegas 16 (!!) is coming out by the end of August. Now it would be nice if the actual availability of 16 was delivered to me the same way. Will it?

David wrote on 8/3/2018, 10:47 AM

Update 6 (build 384) ... Please give us your feedback

Thanks, Mathias!

Does this update or Vegas 16 make it possible to record voice-overs with "lead-in"?

So that the voice talent can hear the last 3-4 seconds of her voice recording (while it's recording onwards) and simply pickup from where she left? This is normal / a basic feature for all other DAWs :)

mshenk07 wrote on 8/3/2018, 11:04 AM

Guys, I like the workflow in Vegas. I think it's fast and intuitive. I edit and film part time as a part time career. I rely on it. I edit between 10 and 20 hours every week. So far (before the build I just downloaded), Vegas 15 crashes an average of 1 to 4 times an hour without any plugins being enabled. It makes me want to throw the computer out the window sometimes. I really hope this patch fixes that.

I also find it kind of amusing, that now (hopefully) that Vegas 15 actually has a possibility not crashing 1 to 4 times an hour, you are advertising Vegas 16 coming out in a few weeks...Is there any guarantee or hope that Vegas 16 will not start the whole "crash all the time" problem again for a year before it finally gets fixed, and then Vegas 17 comes out...

I want you to succeed. I want us both to succeed. A huge part of that is making sure any Vegas edition you release does not crash 1 to 4 times an hour...My PC is new, my Graphics card is GTX1060 6GB, probably the most common card being used now... Please, making the program work should be number one priority....

I'm now going into a 6 hour edit session with the new build, and I need to get an important project done in that time...I'm really hoping it doesn't crash like it used to.

Thanks for continuing your work on Vegas...

mshenk07 wrote on 8/3/2018, 3:59 PM

Just an update on today's editing session...4 hours of editing (it went faster than I thought), with 4 crashes...No plugins enabled or weird stuff... Not too bad. I'm still hoping for less crashes though, still annoying...And from what I know of Adobe they have crashes too. I don't use Adobe anymore because I like the workflow of Vegas better, and Adobe crashes as well (at least it did about 8 months ago, not sure about now). If any video editor (hopefully Vegas) ever comes up with a super stable version that crashes maybe once a day at the most?.... Than they've got a customer for life from I bet a lot of this community... Thanks, please keep working on the crashes. This update seems a little more stable...

FPP wrote on 8/4/2018, 8:57 PM

Well I haven't been able to use VP15 enough to even know if these 3 fixes will benefit a non existent work flow.

😊

Martin L wrote on 8/5/2018, 10:31 AM

Just an update on today's editing session...4 hours of editing (it went faster than I thought), with 4 crashes...No plugins enabled or weird stuff... Not too bad. I'm still hoping for less crashes though, still annoying...And from what I know of Adobe they have crashes too. I don't use Adobe anymore because I like the workflow of Vegas better, and Adobe crashes as well (at least it did about 8 months ago, not sure about now). If any video editor (hopefully Vegas) ever comes up with a super stable version that crashes maybe once a day at the most?.... Than they've got a customer for life from I bet a lot of this community... Thanks, please keep working on the crashes. This update seems a little more stable...

I periodically work full time editing film with Vegas Pro and most of that time Vegas doesn't crash at all, days on end. Then some days Vegas crashes up to 2-3 times during the day. So for me it is quite stable. Don't know why it is, and why it isn't for you. I always use the latest version of the software though. Looking forward to VP16.

dez123-vaghy wrote on 8/5/2018, 6:05 PM

Hi. I have been using Vegas 15 steadily now on average to make 1 or 2 three minute real estate videos a day for the past month. After contacting tech support for choppy performance and getting some help to resolve that issue in general about a month ago I am left with the program crashing 4 or 5 times randomly on each session. I have developed a twitch... "ctrl s" to save at every opportunity but I must say even after all of that it is darn annoying. Has anyone else had this issue? I have upgraded to ver 384 and it really has not changed the crashing.

hyunchang-shin wrote on 8/5/2018, 7:56 PM

Hi, I just have updated the build 384 version and expected that I can input Korean characters correctly in text edit from this version. However I can’t input Korean characters directly as same as before.

I have no idea about “Korean localization fixes” and wonder why the input issue is still happened.

I hope this issue will be fixed soon.

Kinvermark wrote on 8/5/2018, 10:40 PM

Regarding stability: Clearly hardware configuration is always one possibility, but I also wonder if it is related to the way some editors do their work. In years of using Vegas I have NEVER lost any work. I have had crashes, but they are quite rare (e.g. once a week, maybe) and I can almost "feel" them coming. It seems to me (yes this is totally unproven) that timing & memory usage has a lot to do with it. If you click all over the timeline, delete clips while the cursor is playing, don't wait for media to load, etc. you can make it crash.

In other words, if you push Vegas around you make it mad! So don't do that :)

digilyd wrote on 8/6/2018, 8:27 AM

Why don't I get faster renders with a 1050ti in this Dell 490 dual 3 Ghz twin core Xeon box? - 1920 x 1080, 25 fps progressive scan, a bit of sony sharpness and a dash of SEMW automatic colour correction

RogerS wrote on 8/6/2018, 9:01 AM

Regarding stability: Clearly hardware configuration is always one possibility, but I also wonder if it is related to the way some editors do their work. In years of using Vegas I have NEVER lost any work. I have had crashes, but they are quite rare (e.g. once a week, maybe) and I can almost "feel" them coming. It seems to me (yes this is totally unproven) that timing & memory usage has a lot to do with it. If you click all over the timeline, delete clips while the cursor is playing, don't wait for media to load, etc. you can make it crash.

In other words, if you push Vegas around you make it mad! So don't do that :)

That really shouldn't be on the users. I have to say I don't edit like that- I learned not to move things around while it is playing back, and still have fairly frequent crashes using a quite new Windows 10 computer with a GeForce 1050 card inside.
I think the problem is how the GPU acceleration was implemented and that nothing prevents the software from making illegal calls. It not only crashes Vegas but also takes down the OS, which just says "Windows is shutting down" without warning. I have never seen that behavior, ever, with other software.
Vegas doesn't seem to have basic checks in place to keep users from making improper settings. For example if you have the GPU set to NVIDIA in Vega but then render to an Intel template with the Intel GPU disabled, or vice-versa, it won't throw an error and get you to fix the setting, but will hang and then crash.
I found 11 much more stable, but do appreciate the features of 15, so I just save obsessively and hope for the best.

OldSmoke wrote on 8/6/2018, 10:33 AM

Why don't I get faster renders with a 1050ti in this Dell 490 dual 3 Ghz twin core Xeon box? - 1920 x 1080, 25 fps progressive scan, a bit of sony sharpness and a dash of SEMW automatic colour correction

You didn't say what render codec you are using. Also, 3GHz CPU may not be fast enough to feed the GPU. Have you checked what the load is on you CPU and GPU?

digilyd wrote on 8/6/2018, 10:50 AM

Why don't I get faster renders with a 1050ti in this Dell 490 dual 3 Ghz twin core Xeon box? - 1920 x 1080, 25 fps progressive scan, a bit of sony sharpness and a dash of SEMW automatic colour correction

You didn't say what render codec you are using. Also, 3GHz CPU may not be fast enough to feed the GPU. Have you checked what the load is on you CPU and GPU?

CPU is at 74 to 80 percent evenly on all four cores, I can not find any information on gpu-load in win7. Codec is Magix AVC/AAC.