VP19 choppy Premier Pro works like a charm, what's wrong???

serd wrote on 8/28/2022, 8:05 AM

Hello,

I've been a VP user for a long time, I tried to edit a new small project with GH6 files (several mov) and VP19 is choppy and laggy, I tried all the Youtube fixes and website suggestions... it drives me mad that I have to spend so much time trying to fix this.

So yesterday I had enough, no one should struggle this much with software so I purchased Premier Pro, first project ever and no tweaks to premier, the GH6 files play like a charm, as I was using windows player. I can edit and not guess what I'm looking at and after an hour or so it did not crash!

Right after the install, no lag, no crashes it just works.

Any idea of why VP19 could be performing so poorly, is it just bad software it needs yet another update?

I'm so frustrated.

- Sergio

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Reyfox wrote on 8/30/2022, 11:03 AM

Like many here, I have more than one editor on my computer. Most that I have, it's more out of curiosity, and to see if they offer something I could possibly use. I don't drink, smoke, and am conservative with my retirement income, and wait for sales, so collecting editing software is like a hobby. That's how I wound up here.

Here is what I've found. No one editor is perfect. I have consumer editors that do some things amazingly better than professional editors (hint... text editing is a major one). So I would use them for that particular need. I have Resolve Studio. It's nice, and works. My wife gifted it to me a couple of years ago when they were including the Speed Editor. Nice I thought. And while it's updated to 18, I have yet to edit a project on it. And yes, it plays back just about anything I toss on the timeline and usually with whatever effect I add to it without proxies. I'm just not up to editing with it yet.

All the other editing software that I have is used to support Vegas, not replace it. I could have entrenched myself into the Davinci camp real easily. Forced myself to learn nodes in Fusion, and learned the myriad different menus. But honestly, I am quite comfortable with Vegas. No, I haven't upgraded to VP20 for the reason of BorisFX. But I believe the Vegas team will sort this out, and when they do, I'll be there for VP20.

I fell in love with editing with Vegas several years ago. And that love affair for editing hasn't changed.

I understand people moving on to something else. They have needs, and feel that another software will meet them. I have no harsh words for them, and can only say "happy editing"!

Former user wrote on 8/30/2022, 6:49 PM

@Former user My playback issues started in Vegas 14. In 14, there was just one setting in the internal preferences that needed to be changed - changing a "true" to a "false". But in Vegas 19, there are three internal settings and one in File I/O that deal with the so4 decoder and I have no idea what each should be set to.

@jimingo-1 For the maximum compatibility and stability for AVC use the default setting, which is SO4 decode, but set the GPU decoder to use to OFF. The obvious negative is no GPU decode, it will depend on your CPU as to how well that will work. Previously there a couple of codecs that required SO4 decoder to use the GPU decoder(Not in the off state), the one I recall is Iphone HLG and that required an intel IGPU. I don't think that's the case now, and also that is HEVC.

Then they complained about no GPU decode, then it was added

@fr0sty You do a job right, or you don't do it at all. Because they didn't do it right, it causes most of the instability problems, the GPU decoder runaway that causes lag, and the terrible HEVC GPU decoding. And it's been that way for 5years now, because they gave you something. I would have preferred nothing, if I knew this wasn't a stopgap measure.

Also if this thread did not drive into a mountainous ravine explode it would be more clear that this thread is about GPU decoding not working for Vegas Customer with his camera file, and it's not a problem anyone can fix other than Vegas. You tell me when it's reasonable to complain if 5 years of subpar GPU decoding seems reasonable.

People with strange parasocial relationships with staff ain't helping the problem either, they just antagonize people, or they behave as abusers, trying to silence victims. This notion that forum sycophants are good for a community I just don't understand. Does such a person really help the morale of a software engineer? I'd want the adulation from a former detractor after they actually fix a problem.

Musicvid wrote on 8/30/2022, 10:40 PM

People with strange parasocial relationships with staff ain't helping the problem either, they just antagonize people, or they behave as abusers, trying to silence victims. This notion that forum sycophants are good for a community I just don't understand. Does such a person really help the morale of a software engineer? I'd want the adulation from a former detractor after they actually fix a problem.

Heh. No hypocrisy here....