@Vouk Hello，it seems Voukoder 4 can't show GIF in VEGAS Pro.

All new voukoder Version 8

https://www.voukoder.org/forum/thread/783-downloads-instructions/

Voukoder 11.0 :

Fixes / Changes

Added SVT AV1 presets 9-13

Added "default" preset to prevent confusion

Replaced Intel MFX with Intel VPL

Using latest FFmpeg master from cartwheel: 20220331

Using latest MSVC++ 2022 compiler

Supporting Intels new Arc GPUs with hardware accelerated h264, h265 and AV1

https://github.com/Vouk/voukoder-connectors/tree/master/

https://github.com/Vouk/voukoder/releases

Best not be an April fools... :-)

He may also be supporting AV1 hardware encoding very soon. It seems like he may have an NDA with Intel, as he knew about the AV1 encoder before the Arc Launch but wasn't able to talk about it

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else installs the latest, as linked by @lan-mLMC version and ends up with ccleaner installed too.

I installed both connectors (VP 17+ and VP17-), Voukoder and the latest Resolve yesterday (4/1) and this morning had a popup asking me to upgrade ccleaner. Which I've never installed. Checking the windows install history I found that ccleaner was installed on 4/1.

@michael-harrison  ... No, that didn't happen with my Voukoder downloads and the two Vegas Pro connectors, though I didn't DL the Resolve connector.

@michael-harrison Hello，the link is the official page of the Voukoder's author.

If you have CCleaner installed, you must have mistakenly clicked on some of the Official site's ads. It is recommended that you'd better install some anti-ad extension for your browser, to avoid it next time.

@lan-mLMC I have to correct one thing you said, the link isn't for the official voukoder page, it's for the github repo, which doesn't have ads. The only two places I went when getting the latest vouk releases were the github pages. I also have ad blocking enabled at my router.

I've just verified that the installers aren't the source by reinstalling and seeing that ccleaner didn't reappear.

I won't derail the thread further and will keep investigating on this side

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else installs the latest, as linked by @lan-mLMC version and ends up with ccleaner installed too.

I installed both connectors (VP 17+ and VP17-), Voukoder and the latest Resolve yesterday (4/1) and this morning had a popup asking me to upgrade ccleaner. Which I've never installed. Checking the windows install history I found that ccleaner was installed on 4/1.

I use Voukoder and CCleaner so I would not necessary notice. I've always downloaded Voukoder updates direct from the website.

I've used the free version of CCleaner for donkeys years. It works great and it has never caused any issues for me. It can be set to update itself and it will ask if a paid version is of interest. If you want to stay with Free thats fine and it does not pester. It can customise the clean to the n-th degree. It also has some other inbuilt tools e.g. a drive wiper which is handy to clean up a USB stick.

Just tried v11 of Voukoder and it works fine for me. And did not install ccleaner. I see it embeds a more recent version of ffmpeg than before and has a preset to select Intel's open-source svt-av1 library. But it's missing the other 2 libs built into recent ffmpeg releases: rav1e that's been around for a while and the most recently added libaom. Don't think any of these are strictly speaking hardware accelerated but Intel processors may do some under-the-covers redirection using their igpus as a processor extension if svt-av1 is selected. I haven't had a chance to measure anything yet except quality analysis for ffmpeg svt-av1 & rav1e plus the older experimental Voukoder av1... for which svt-av1 via ffmpeg came out on top. Only Intel hardware accelerated encoder on the horizon that I've heard about is the now code named Arctic Sound server pci gpu board. Been hearing about Intel's coming pci video boards for years and they never seem to actually make it to market... I'll won't believe it till I see it.

There is, however, a dedicated av1 encoder app from winxdvd that claims to be hardware accelerated that's available now but the specs are kind of vague.

Hi.

I use the Sony Avc codec for rendering. I have tried Magix AVC and it does not reach such qualities at the same file size as Sony Avc.

Query....

What codec do you recommend in your application as a replacement for Sony Avc?

Are you in contact with the Vegas team? Could your application one day fully replace the internal codecs in the next version of Vegas?

Thanks for the info.

@pierre-k The user that you'd like to respond here will probably notice your comment better if you tag him, in this case @Vouk (developer of the Voukoder plugin).

@pierre-k As far as I know AVC = h264. Voukoder provides several h264 encoders.

@Howard-Vigorita If you ever used a hardware AV1 encoder and see the fps numbers you really don't care about software AV1 encoders anymore. It is absolutely insane! I have an Intel dev system here and really hope the ARC GPUs come to market really soon.

Hi.

I use the Sony Avc codec for rendering. I have tried Magix AVC and it does not reach such qualities at the same file size as Sony Avc.

Query....

What codec do you recommend in your application as a replacement for Sony Avc?

Are you in contact with the Vegas team? Could your application one day fully replace the internal codecs in the next version of Vegas?

Thanks for the info.

Pierre, try a x264 render through Voukoder. After a first render you can experiment with some of the presets if your goal is smaller file size, for example.

My understanding is there's no way Voukoder will be incorporated into Vegas as there are restrictions on what commercial program can do with certain open source software. With the connector and program it almost feels like part of Vegas to me and you can even make your own presets for Voukoder like for any other render template.

@Vouk Hello, is it possible to make a universal importing plug-in/decoder based on FFmpeg/LAV filters in the future? So that we can drag all kinds of MKV, FLV, RMVB, RM, AVI, MOV into Vegas, Premiere and other NLEs.

 

@Howard-Vigorita If you ever used a hardware AV1 encoder and see the fps numbers you really don't care about software AV1 encoders anymore. It is absolutely insane! I have an Intel dev system here and really hope the ARC GPUs come to market really soon.

A pcie arc card just released yesterday in China. Pretty low powered but it's a start...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gunnir-launches-arc-a380-photon-6gb-oc-gpu