Videos wont play at all & when they do, it is NEVER smooth! Vegas 18

TD821 wrote on 8/15/2020, 1:42 PM

I have the best setup you can think of and I put so much money into this setup that it should work flawlessly for my professional job however, it still doesn't work properly no matter what I do. I've been using Vegas since 11 when Sony was in charge. I feel that ever since Magix got ahold of the program its been all downhill from there. When it was sony everything worked great and I have nothing but issues now with ALL my files. I've downloaded all the drivers, changed the settings, tweaked this-done that. I don't what else to do! Everything is so choppy and lags. It's unusable... Thanks in advance.

**THE MAIN ISSUE I HAVE is all my 4K 30-60fps videos won't ever play smooth or at all and that's all I shoot in, EVER. There are always major issues with the playback. nothing works. The 3 main cameras I shoot with are the GoPro 8 Black, DJI Mavic 2 Pro & the Skydio 2. Someone, please help me fix the gopro and skydio files (.MP4 files). They just don't play or give me errors every single time, so I can't work and I just keep wasting money on updating every year. Magix claims & keeps saying more optimized every year and it's not! I just keep wasting money every year thinking that it will be fixed and after years it's still not.... check the attached screenshots for errors and file info (blank black and red screens - 2 different occasions)

my specs include:

i9-9900k, 64GB pro ram, RTX 2080 8gb Graphics, MSI Z390 gaming motherboard, etc.

Comments

Marco. wrote on 8/15/2020, 1:54 PM

I think the red preview indicates a GPU problem. Try updating your graphic card driver via the Vegas Pro help menu.

TD821 wrote on 8/15/2020, 2:08 PM

I think the red preview indicates a GPU problem. Try updating your graphic card driver via the Vegas Pro help menu.

As I mentioned in my original post, EVERY SINGLE thing is updated in vegas and on my computer/intel/Nvidia

IDK what to do.... :(

david-ruby wrote on 8/15/2020, 4:07 PM

I have to throw this in here. I did have this happen as of late. Try taking your dynamic ram preview down to 0. See if that helps. It did for me.

TD821 wrote on 8/15/2020, 6:19 PM

I have to throw this in here. I did have this happen as of late. Try taking your dynamic ram preview down to 0. See if that helps. It did for me.

unfortunately that didn't do anything to help me out... :(

Former user wrote on 8/15/2020, 6:34 PM

I have to throw this in here. I did have this happen as of late. Try taking your dynamic ram preview down to 0. See if that helps. It did for me.

The red screen/crashing can be caused by the so4 decoding, so turn that off.

And your problem with playing smooth with dynamic ram preview on, but not when dynamic ram preview at 0 must be because vegas is constantly precaching into ram as a work around for it's slow rendering engine and turning dynamic ram preview off (0) must turn the precaching off.

But also I do see problems with the precaching getting stuck with some videos. I posted this video somewhere before , it shows the dynamic ram precaching it'self can cause slow playback

and this is the s04 red screen of death. Not actually a GPU or GPU driver fault, even though there's a problem with vegas communicating with gpu

fr0sty wrote on 8/15/2020, 6:34 PM

Did you download the GPU driver from the VEGAS help menu? Just having an updated driver isn't enough, it needs to be the Nvidia Studio driver, not the game ready drivers. Using the GPU driver update utility in the help menu will ensure you get the right one.

If that does not help, go into your preferences menu. Look in the video tab. What GPU is listed? Make sure it is Nvidia. Now look in the file i/o tab. Is NVDec listed as the decoder? Make sure it is. When using this option, make sure that legacy decoding for avc and hevc is disabled.

Then if that does not work, try to check "use legacy video decoders for avc/hevc" in the file i/o tab. Use this only as a last resort, however.

fr0sty wrote on 8/15/2020, 6:37 PM

There's also this to try...

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/my-renderproblems-with-nvenc-were-gone-by-downgrading-the-stud-driver--123173/