Video FX

video@joyful-noise.com wrote on 5/31/2015, 11:20 PM

Video FX (Color balance, Cookie cutter, etc.) do not operate unless I select half-screen. Any ideas what might be going on including operator error?

Comments

DGates wrote on 6/1/2015, 1:22 AM

You should fill out your profile to show your computer and video card stats. Then people can give you info based on that.

Grazie wrote on 6/1/2015, 1:40 AM

Make sure you haven't clicked on the FX Bypass Icon:-

FxBypass ON

FxBypass OFF

And yes, do fill out your speccs . . please?

Grazie

Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 6/1/2015, 2:47 PM

Hi,

There is definitively something wrong with the video preview window... Selecting the right or left half runs havoc the preview. Either the selection does not work, or then the other half behaves erratically, even showing frames from wrong places by jumping back an forth on the timeline. Or the video FX either shows on the whole preview window, or then not. This is totally insane, almost hair removing experience...

Just plain vanilla HD AVC MTS files imported from an Canon XA20 on the timeline, nothing else. The FX I use is just SonyLevels and SonyGlow. This worked before...

Anybody else that has experienced strange behavior in the preview with FX toggling?

Cheers,

Christian

Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 6/1/2015, 3:04 PM

Hi again,

I could have guessed - this IS GPU related!!!

SCS - when do you FIX this insane nightmare called GPU rendering???

Again, I switched from NVidia to AMD spending big $$$ and got the R9 280X GPU - as recommended by many, to get rid of the stupid GPU-related rendering and instability problems. Still no smooth sailing... All this s**t renders (pun intended) Vegas GPU feature useless. I feel really betrayed - how long have we waited and paid for updates to get this working, and still we just quietly shut up and off...?

At least - SCS - you should stop advertising GPU assisted preview / rendering since it is still unbelievably unreliable and buggy, so buggy that most of the time it must be switched off. What a shame that SCS is laying all the eggs in the new basket... I have doubts that Vegas number 13 is an unlucky number for Vegas after all - maybe the last one?

Christian

PS: And as a recommendation to anyone having erratic behavior in the preview window - turn the d**n GPU off and lick your wounds!!!

OldSmoke wrote on 6/1/2015, 4:51 PM

I run 2x R9 290 and I don't have NY issues with it at all, even with XAVC files. However, my system was build around GPU acceleration and optimized for it. Sure, MC AVC and Sony AVC encoders are still old and don't support R9 cards, but I use Vegas2Handbrake for MP4 and MPEG2 for BluRay and DVD.

The XA20 has the same file format as the HF-G30 and those are running fine on my machine. BTW: make sure haven't used my DLL swap to improve GoPro file playback, that will precisely screw up your XA20 preview and render.