When I down load 240ps from my gopro the review play back speed is lagging very badly. I just bought a Lenovo laptop with i5 intel evo, 516mb memory . Do I need to send the computer back or is it the software? Or something I could be doing? P.s. I am also new to video editing
Pls upload your footage to Google Drive and share.
@Ryan-Schug Check that your hardware satisfies the minimum specifications for Vegas Pro here.
Files from GoPro should be edited using "Create Video Proxy" firstly. Guarantee that playback will be smooth after doing it.
One more point to add to TV-Slupsk's post, video proxies do not work when the preview quality is set to good or best, only preview or draft. Good and Best both use the original media.
To emphasize, a video proxy is absolutely necessary to preview your footage. i5 is modest, GoPro is bad, 240 fps is ridiculous.
with i5 intel evo, 516mb memory
516mb memory? Is that a typo.
240fps is for slow motion. Set your project framerate to something reasonable (24fps?) and then "add at project framerate") for 10x slow motion. Want to do speed ramps or normal speed motion? Add a velocity envelope.
Musicvid why is 240fps ridiculous? Roger s when I try and set different frame rates . I cant even preview the video to edit it. What isva velocity envelop
disable resample?
Musicvid why is 240fps ridiculous? Roger s when I try and set different frame rates . I cant even preview the video to edit it. What isva velocity envelop
Right click on the video in your project media pool. Select "create video proxy" from the following menu. This process will take some time, but when it completes, set your preview quality to "preview" or "draft", and you should notice a big improvement in playback speed.
Velocity envelopes are explained here:
Musicvid why is 240fps ridiculous? Roger s when I try and set different frame rates . I cant even preview the video to edit it. What isva velocity envelop
It's the software it's not your computer, Vegas has very poor playback of HEVC files in general, it's frankly an embarrassment, but someone just yesterday uploaded a DJI HEVC 4K60 file that could play no problems at all in Vegas. For your drone do you have any ability to control how it encodes, other than choosing resolution and mp4/mov?
I would guess for a consumer drone you probably don't, it's his particular model that encodes that way. If you want to try his file, it's here https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1UBQ9JgXb3MNXlHkJwy9zy_5bG6ngl_R1&export=download
240fps is ridiculous for playback because screens don't refresh that quickly and YouTube itself maxes out at 60fps. The only purpose of it is slow motion- more frames is not better.
If your files don't play back on a 24 or 30 or 60fps timeline then create proxy files as Frosty showed or as Todd suggests try to find other settings for your camera if there are any.
Musicvid why is 240fps ridiculous?
There are only two reasons to use 240 fps:
If you believe the latter, I can't offer much help.