VP 17 not working on my system

VideoSquib wrote on 11/11/2019, 6:16 PM

I'm sure it's some sort of set-up issue but for some reason Vegas Pro 17 isn't working on my system. I have 16 installed and it works fine, though I recently had to uninstall Ignite Pro as it was causing VP 16 to stall on launch. What's happening on VP 17 is that some footage, like that from GoPro cameras is horribly blocky and looks like a bad YouTube upload with lots of compression artifacts. It looks like I'm watching images made of lego blocks while squinting. It's similar for shots from my GH5 and GH5S and Mavic 2 Pro. Footage from a Panasonic GH 3 is black but you get audio. With the exact same clips I have no problems in 16, other than the H265 footage from the Mavic causes crashes.

System specs are:

Vegas Pro build 353
Windows 10 Home v.1809
Intel Core i7 8700K
32 GB ram
Vegas and the OS are installed on the same Samsung 970 Pro NVMe drive. Footage is on other HDDs or another NVMe drive.
Nvidia 1070 Ti video card with the latest creator driver. It worked no better with the last gamer driver I had installed.

I've tried GPU acceleration on and off and messed with several other settings, rather randomly I must admit, but have everything back to default. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Comments

j-v wrote on 11/12/2019, 3:18 AM

Nvidia 1070 Ti video card with the latest creator driver. It worked no better with the last gamer driver I had installed.

The latest Nvidia driver you use don't exist

VideoSquib wrote on 11/12/2019, 8:35 AM

Correction - Latest Nvidia Studio Driver V. 441.12.

diverG wrote on 11/12/2019, 1:25 PM

Have not found the latest drivers to be the answer for some time. Current drivers are start 4xx. All these later drivers do not allow me to stop & start the timeline playing. After a few cycles (start stop start) vegas stops responding and needs to be closed via taskmanager. Drivers of the earlier 3xx series do work reliably. In my experience the latest driver is not necessarily the best. Maybe start with the driver that came with your card. If OK try newer drivers until you hit a failure. Then go back one version.

VideoSquib wrote on 11/12/2019, 7:48 PM

The thing is that VP16 (and VP15 for that matter) works fine with any driver I've used. VP17 is unusable for me. I might have to contact them directly to see if I can get it sorted out.

fr0sty wrote on 11/12/2019, 9:06 PM

What preview setting do you have on your preview window? I know using draft preview mode can result in footage becoming very pixelated, as can quarter or half on some other modes. If you have it on Auto, it will auto adjust the resolution based on how fast it is able to decode the video, which would make sense if you have it on auto, it hits a hevc file it struggles to decode, and drops resolution to try to decode faster.

Is the rendered output also pixelated? Can you post an example?