I have 300GB worth of 4K footage from Z-cam Cinema Camera. Its very frustrating that VP17 always freeze whenever I tried to import the clip. I have to manually import it 1 by 1 into the timeline. Every 1 clip I have to wait the freeze hiccups from VEGAS.
Oh my. Just started to proxy the files and boom
Sounds very specific to this use case- I'd file a support request directly with Magix.
How do you import footages to VP17?
by dragging them from Windows Explorer to Vegas' Timeline?
or
via Vegas Explorer tab>Add to Project Media List?
Usually via Vegas Explorer tab is 'more safe' rather drag file from Windows Explorer, but as for Z-cam Cinema Camera footages, there's a possibility that these footages 'are not Vegas-friendly'
If you can post a sample clip shot by this camera, it may help us find you a workaround.
How do you import footages to VP17?
by dragging them from Windows Explorer to Vegas' Timeline?
or
via Vegas Explorer tab>Add to Project Media List?
Usually via Vegas Explorer tab is 'more safe' rather drag file from Windows Explorer, but as for Z-cam Cinema Camera footages, there's a possibility that these footages 'are not Vegas-friendly'
Tried this, still the same regardless importing through media panel or directly through the timeline
If you can post a sample clip shot by this camera, it may help us find you a workaround.
Here is the sample clip:
4K, 8 bit Z-Log2
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zqElw_nAvyskO5Y0jPywq8n5gScEul_y
Wow! HEVC!
General Complete name : G:\TEST\Media Tests\Z Cam\Z001C0089_20200225143200_0001.MOV Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : QuickTime Codec ID : qt 2004.06 (qt ) File size : 670 MiB Duration : 1 min 13 s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 76.8 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 com.zcam.camera.prepend : v0 CameraMaker : Z CAM CameraModel : E2 com.zcam.camera.sn : 417A0040095 com.zcam.camera.fw : 0.89 com.zcam.camera.movieType : MOVIE com.zcam.camera.lut : Z-Log2 com.zcam.camera.iso : 500 com.zcam.camera.shutterAngle : 180° com.zcam.camera.whiteBalanceMode : Manual com.zcam.camera.whiteBalanceKelvin : 4700K com.zcam.camera.whiteBalanceTint : 0 com.zcam.camera.projectFps : 25 com.apple.proapps.shootingRate : 25 com.zcam.camera.captureVfr : 100 com.apple.proapps.cameraName : Z com.apple.proapps.reel : 001 com.zcam.camera.battery : 7.9V com.zcam.camera.temperature : 57.1°C com.zcam.camera.storage : Samsung Portable SSD T5 com.zcam.camera.splitIndex : 0 com.apple.proapps.clipID : Z001C0089_20200225143200_0001 com.zcam.camera.hash : 4250 Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main 10@L5.1@Main Codec ID : hvc1 Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Duration : 1 min 13 s Bit rate : 75.3 Mb/s Width : 3 840 pixels Height : 2 160 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 25.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.363 Stream size : 657 MiB (98%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Mastering display color primaries : R: x=0.060000 y=0.330000, G: x=0.300000 y=0.150000, B: x=0.640000 y=0.600000, White point: x=0.312700 y=0.329000 Mastering display luminance : min: 0.0000 cd/m2, max: 0 cd/m2 Codec configuration box : hvcC Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC LC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity Codec ID : mp4a-40-2 Duration : 18 s 325 ms Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 128 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 256 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 281 KiB (0%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Other ID : 3 Type : Time code Format : QuickTime TC Duration : 1 min 13 s Time code of first frame : 14:32:00:00 Time code, striped : Yes Title : 001 Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00
If you can post a sample clip shot by this camera, it may help us find you a workaround.
Here is the sample clip:
4K, 8 bit Z-Log2
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zqElw_nAvyskO5Y0jPywq8n5gScEul_y
Is this recorded in 100fps mode?
Once put in my timeline, the video seems were played as 25p, leaving audio and video not sync-ed
If you can post a sample clip shot by this camera, it may help us find you a workaround.
Here is the sample clip:
4K, 8 bit Z-Log2
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zqElw_nAvyskO5Y0jPywq8n5gScEul_y
Is this recorded in 100fps mode?
Once put in my timeline, the video seems were played as 25p, leaving audio and video not sync-ed
Yup correct
Wow! HEVC!
General Complete name : G:\TEST\Media Tests\Z Cam\Z001C0089_20200225143200_0001.MOV Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : QuickTime Codec ID : qt 2004.06 (qt ) File size : 670 MiB Duration : 1 min 13 s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 76.8 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 com.zcam.camera.prepend : v0 CameraMaker : Z CAM CameraModel : E2 com.zcam.camera.sn : 417A0040095 com.zcam.camera.fw : 0.89 com.zcam.camera.movieType : MOVIE com.zcam.camera.lut : Z-Log2 com.zcam.camera.iso : 500 com.zcam.camera.shutterAngle : 180° com.zcam.camera.whiteBalanceMode : Manual com.zcam.camera.whiteBalanceKelvin : 4700K com.zcam.camera.whiteBalanceTint : 0 com.zcam.camera.projectFps : 25 com.apple.proapps.shootingRate : 25 com.zcam.camera.captureVfr : 100 com.apple.proapps.cameraName : Z com.apple.proapps.reel : 001 com.zcam.camera.battery : 7.9V com.zcam.camera.temperature : 57.1°C com.zcam.camera.storage : Samsung Portable SSD T5 com.zcam.camera.splitIndex : 0 com.apple.proapps.clipID : Z001C0089_20200225143200_0001 com.zcam.camera.hash : 4250 Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main 10@L5.1@Main Codec ID : hvc1 Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Duration : 1 min 13 s Bit rate : 75.3 Mb/s Width : 3 840 pixels Height : 2 160 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 25.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.363 Stream size : 657 MiB (98%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Mastering display color primaries : R: x=0.060000 y=0.330000, G: x=0.300000 y=0.150000, B: x=0.640000 y=0.600000, White point: x=0.312700 y=0.329000 Mastering display luminance : min: 0.0000 cd/m2, max: 0 cd/m2 Codec configuration box : hvcC Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC LC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity Codec ID : mp4a-40-2 Duration : 18 s 325 ms Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 128 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 256 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 281 KiB (0%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Other ID : 3 Type : Time code Format : QuickTime TC Duration : 1 min 13 s Time code of first frame : 14:32:00:00 Time code, striped : Yes Title : 001 Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00 Tagged date : UTC 2020-02-25 06:32:00
Ah 10 Bits, I tot it was shoot in 8bits, maybe different projects.
Anyway, what causes VEGAS to crash/lag & have all of that freeze hiccups?
Hmm..., can't say anything from my side... since I only have one footage and that works 'perfectly' on my side.
Perhaps the workaround is, try import not all media to vegas, do create proxy 'part by part' then try work with it? (hoping it won't lag - but have to experiment)
another way..., will be converting them all to Vegas friendly format like ProRes (Magix Intermediate) - but it will take amount of time to do this considering 'wrong auto-fps' in Vegas.🙈
Hmm..., can't say anything from my side... since I only have one footage and that works 'perfectly' on my side.
Perhaps the workaround is, try import not all media to vegas, do create proxy 'part by part' then try work with it? (hoping it won't lag - but have to experiment)
another way..., will be converting them all to Vegas friendly format like ProRes (Magix Intermediate) - but it will take amount of time to do this considering 'wrong auto-fps' in Vegas.🙈
Ya, I was thinking about transcoding the video but the amount of time taken to render all of this footage would be forever. Does VEGAS have a batch rendering features or something?
You can try Tools>Scripting>Batch Render - but this is for Rendering in timeline... So I never using it.
I personally using 3rd party VASST Ultimate S Pro
http://vasstsoftware.com/product/ultimate-s-pro/
The Render tools allows to do batch rendering of media, or Regions.
The other 3rd party script is Vegasaur - but personally never tried or experience of it... so can't say much about it.
Ive been posting this for literally 4 months now; dont know why it hasent been added to the "known issues" thread because everyone else just blames something else...
Vegas 17 has a CONFIRMED BUG with HEVC media that the team is still working on. (they are able to reproduce the crash)
As for me Ive been using vegas 16. With all GPU features OFF and rendering proxies with 0 issues.
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Vegasaur is VERY helpful for making proxies/transcodes of all sorts. However, the encodes are still slow. I hate to mention it, but if you need/want much faster transcodes then get Davinci Resolve free version and then batch export your intermediates from there (Cineform or Grass Valley HQX files) - those should edit nicely in Vegas. Obivously, do a small scale trial first to make sure everything works.
You could also use the ImportAssist tool in HappyOtterScripts for direct transcoding and import into Vegas. Here's a demo for the transcoding of your footage into Cineform 10bit 422 which plays quite well on the Vegas timeline. In addition to Cineform, you could also transcode directly to GrassValley HQX as well as lossless codecs such as UtVideo or MagicYUV. Lots of options.
For more information go to https://tools4vegas.com/
Ive been posting this for literally 4 months now; dont know why it hasent been added to the "known issues" thread because everyone else just blames something else...
Vegas 17 has a CONFIRMED BUG with HEVC media that the team is still working on. (they are able to reproduce the crash)
As for me Ive been using vegas 16. With all GPU features OFF and rendering proxies with 0 issues.(Private conversation message hidden)
Ah I see. But VEGAS now wont easily crash after I proxy all of the clip. But the freezing hiccups still there tho.
Oh my. Just started to proxy the files and boom
Next time make a screenshot with description text to find it in the error reporting database... so we could give you the answer. 😉
Ive been posting this for literally 4 months now; dont know why it hasent been added to the "known issues" thread because everyone else just blames something else...
Vegas 17 has a CONFIRMED BUG with HEVC media that the team is still working on. (they are able to reproduce the crash)
As for me Ive been using vegas 16. With all GPU features OFF and rendering proxies with 0 issues.(Private conversation message hidden)
@LongIslanderrr There's still an item covering this in the "Known Issues" thread that dates back to VP14. I've just added a link to this thread to it:
@alifftudm95 I downloaded your clip and tried it on my NUC travel machine and it loaded up into v17b421 without incident or any hiccups. Also made 3 extra copies and dropped them onto a timeline all at once from the explorer window just fine. Had autoproxy turned off btw and they played smoothly at best-full as long as I set file i/o decode to amd instead of intel. Quite impressed by that. Also pulled down an x64 lut from zcam's google drive and found I had to drop the preview down to good-auto to get smooth playback. Curiously, I didn't get noticeably different performance after repeating with proxies which took a while to create. I really appreciate your making that clip available as I've been wanting to test some 4k footage like this for quite a while. If you have the time, some more details on your camera rig would also be of interest.
@alifftudm95 I downloaded your clip and tried it on my NUC travel machine and it loaded up into v17b421 without incident or any hiccups. Also made 3 extra copies and dropped them onto a timeline all at once from the explorer window just fine. Had autoproxy turned off btw and they played smoothly at best-full as long as I set file i/o decode to amd instead of intel. Quite impressed by that. Also pulled down an x64 lut from zcam's google drive and found I had to drop the preview down to good-auto to get smooth playback. Curiously, I didn't get noticeably different performance after repeating with proxies which took a while to create. I really appreciate your making that clip available as I've been wanting to test some 4k footage like this for quite a while. If you have the time, some more details on your camera rig would also be of interest.
Well maybe because Im editing on a laptop. My Laptop is Dell Inspiron 15. Intel i7 7th Gen, 16GB of Ram with GTX1060 Max Q GPU.
I was not involved during pre/production. I only received the clips to edit, So I didnt know much about the footage details till the DP told me everything about the settings yesterday lol
Previously I use my old i950 desktop - so no Intel graphics acceleration available... but AMD. Not sure if AMD Radeon accelerate the reading process... perhaps I have to try it too on my Asus ROG laptop (nVidia + Intel) later.
Well maybe because Im editing on a laptop. My Laptop is Dell Inspiron 15. Intel i7 7th Gen, 16GB of Ram with GTX1060 Max Q GPU.I was not involved during pre/production. I only received the clips to edit, So I didnt know much about the footage details till the DP told me everything about the settings yesterday lol
Just tried the clip on my Dell laptop which is similar to yours but with 32GB ram and GTX-1050Ti. I only have v16b424 on that machine however but it does do decoding with Intel although no Nvidia decoding. The clips dropped onto the timeline just fine with no crashes but played a little jerky even at draft-auto. Not unlike on my NUC when I selected Intel decoding under v17. Maybe 32GB ram gives my Dell laptop more stability with 4K than yours.
I downloaded your sample file to try on my Dell 5770 laptop with the following preview results:
Best Full
Best Half
Preview Full
Preview Half
I copied the file and opened a total of 20 copies with no drama. The video looks good to me. It seems easy enough with a color curve that I might forego the LUT.
While swapping applications I experienced a Vegas white screen. I sent the data to Magix.