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Audioon 10/3/2022
v20 and PluralEyes
Hmm! Interesting. Just not showing up under Extensions in v20. I have also tested PL back a far as v16 and with the last of the Sony Vegas releases which was v13 and PL v 4.1.11, is working fine in all those versions. Upon investigation, there was no C/ProgramData/Vegas Pro/Application Extensions Folder in v20. I copied that Extensions folder from v16 to v20 and now PL v4.1.11 shows up under Extensions. Go figure?? Chris Young
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Videoon 8/13/2022
VEGAS Pro 20 feedback
I've just received a regular email notification of Vegas v20 availability. Never received any notification of a VP20 download link in my notifications here? Do any others have the same issue? Chris Young
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Videoon 6/5/2022
VEGAS Pro 19 Update 5 (Build 643)
"All of our company presets are gone and everything went to default settings! Please think of this when you release all-new versions and builds. When this happens it costs small companies like our thousands of $$$ fixing, researching how to fix, and making new templates. It's killing us each time you do it. How do we get back our project video presets? We have a LOT for each client. PLUS nothing works as it did before because all the settings we had, like "enable .mov", are all reset. spent an hour today just trying to figure out how to fix that." Unless I'm mistaken you need to do the following. Before you upgrade to a new version install of Vegas use the now aging but fully functional Sony Preset Manager. Either v 1.0 or 2.0. This will allow you to export all your Vegas presets that you have painstakingly created and then import them into your next Vegas upgrade install. No pain! https://sony-preset-manager.software.informer.com/2.0/ Plenty of "How to do it" vids on Youtube Chris Young
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Videoon 1/19/2022
Post Your VEGAS Creations!
VHS to 720p restoration of a 1986 Dire Straits Concert that was never released on tape or DVD. Liaised with Guy Fletcher from DS to get approval hence the VEVO slug. All graded and noise reduced using Neat Video and then 16:9 matted in Vegas 16 and 17. All tech details with the vids.
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Videoon 1/19/2022
Post Your VEGAS Creations!
One of a set of ten promo videos for the Montessori Schools system. Singles, Sony PXW-FS7 two shots, PXW-Z90. High shots DJI Phantom 4 Pro. Edited, graded plus graphics all done in Vegas 17 in 2019. No shallow DOF as the client wanted as many of the teaching aids to be visible in the background. The first lady had a very scratchy voice, unfortunately!
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Videoon 8/25/2021
VEGAS Pro 19 - General Discussion
Can't even get past 1st base with the full release of v19. I mark a region and select render as and 'bang' v 19 hangs with its stopped working dialogue box. Problem Description Application Name: VEGAS Pro Application Version: Version 19.0 (Build 341) Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xe0434352) Fault Module: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll Fault Address: 0x00007FF9563A4B89 Fault Offset: 0x0000000000034B89 Fault Process Details Process Path: C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\vegas190.exe Process Version: Version 19.0 (Build 341) Process Description: VEGAS Pro Process Image Date: 2021-08-10 (Tue Aug 10) 14:42:32 Anyone else experienced this? Any answers? All very unexpected sadly. Back to Resolve until I can sort this! Chris Young
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Videoon 11/30/2020
VEGAS Pro 18 Update 2 (Build 373) - General Discussion
We have been approved for a license for ProRes from Apple and we are working to get the official ProRes support in place. We have also been granted a license for ProRes RAW, but it will take us more time to get this implementation complete as RAW formats are much more resource intensive and require new decoding paths within the code base. However, this is a relatively high priority item for us and we are indeed working on getting it in place. Both those bits of news are music to my ears. Can't wait... though I know I will have to!
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Videoon 11/26/2020
Problem during video recording. (render as)
very often that i finish a project the software does not finish recording. I have to force the program to close and start all my work over. Thank you for your help Quelques suggestions qui pourraient vous convenir. Assurez-vous que votre dossier VEGAS "TEMP" est vide. Essayez également d'avoir le dossier Temp sur un autre lecteur autre que votre lecteur système, qui est probablement le lecteur C :.Sous maintenant, accédez aux options / Préférences / Vidéo et définissez votre aperçu RAM sur «0» et «Appliquer». Maintenant, essayez à nouveau de rendre. Dites-nous comment vous allez car il existe d'autres paramètres qui peuvent vous aider.
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Videoon 11/26/2020
Ultra smooth credit roll with zero jitter & judder!
My finished project is set to 25P (To match my footages) and there is no problem when rendering out at 25P, except for the rolling credit as it suffers from slight jitter & judder. Not a lot but noticeable to my eye. If I render at 50P the credit roll smoothness improved a lot, yet not jitter-free. Rendering at 60P however resulted in super smooth credit roll with zero jitter & judder. But is it ok to render the whole project at 60P considering that my footages are mostly 25P and few are 50P? What are the the consequences, pros and cons of doing so? My video will be viewed in all social medias (YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc) as well as in some PAL satellite channels. This is basically how I do it. No pan and crop used at all. Obviously, you can change the image lengths depending on how slow or fast you want your roller. I find 6:01 works well. Basically, the following principle works for whatever still duration you set. Remember whatever duration you select it must be ONE frame longer. Look at the preferences screengrab dialogue first then look at the wipe duration on the timeline. If your roller has let's say 50 PNGs they all need to be 00:00:06:01 long. Look at the setting in the Prefs image for the still duration setting for a six-second page timed roller. It's set at 6.025 for 301 frames, note 300 AND 1. Check the Cut to Overlap box. Now each clip on the timeline needs to have an overlap of exactly 03:00 seconds. Set that to 03:00 and you should see 300 frames listed to the right. Now check the second screengrab of the timeline showing you how this will look. For this example, I've just used a repeated graphic as my 'roller.' If you have your preferences "Cut to Overlap" setting at 03:00 that will apply a three-second dissolve on all 50 clips when dragged onto the timeline. Now using the Marquee tool. The little dotted square with the arrowhead, box select all 50 clips so they are highlighted. Now while they are all highlighted Shift - Click and select the Linear "Push Up" transition. Drop this Push Up transition onto the first dissolve between the first two clips on the timeline. All transitions will now become Push Up transitions. There should be NO GAPS between the transitions. The wipes should be back to back continuously. Make sure if you are in PAL land that your monitor refresh rate is set to 50Hz or a multiple of that such as 100Hz. Render your roller and it should be a smooth upward roll without steps as it goes from page to page. You can render this out as either 25 or 50p, your choice. Same basic principles apply if you are working with 30/60Hz timelines. I've used this procedure for rollers that have integrated logo graphics for years, going back as far as Vegas 8 from memory. I can't really recall a time when it hasn't worked. Maybe a bit of playing with durations depending on logo size and complexity. Chris Young, CYV Productions.
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Videoon 11/25/2020
VEGAS Pro 18 Update 2 (Build 373) - General Discussion
"Corporate speak is not lying, you tell a truth to mislead.The truth being Apple have not given them the rights to decode their codec. Only magix know if that's unusual given what they provided in their application. The real truth as you believe it, is that GPU decoding performance is not good enough for either Prores raw or BM raw so if they had the rights it still wouldn't exist in vegas pro due to a lack of gpu performance." For what it's worth. Rumors I've heard is that it is highly unlikely we will see Prores RAW support in Vegas. Partly down to the fact that Apple has not been happy with Magix ever since they implemented "Prores" in Vegas 14. A Prores implementation that was not approved or licensed by Apple. From what I have heard is that Magix "Prores" is FFmbc based. Further, I heard it was due to pressure from Apple that Magix had to rename their v14 Prores templates to Magix "Intermediate" in V15 and up. If any of this is true I can't see Apple granting Magix a license for Prores RAW. Chris Young
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Videoon 11/22/2020
VEGAS Pro 18 Update 2 (Build 373) - General Discussion
@cyvideo Presumably you've looked at this thread https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vp18-notes-on-the-8-bit-full-level-option--122749/ Doh! Thought I missed something. Yes I was aware of the new full range 8-bit levels but in my rush to get this job in and turned around I clean forgot about that setting. Fixed my my problem pronto so many thanks for the quick reply. Ended up doing the job in 17 so all worked out in the end. Stay well all. Chris Young, CYV Productions
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Videoon 11/21/2020
VEGAS Pro 18 Update 2 (Build 373) - General Discussion
Hi All. Just running into a problem in build 373 which is stopping me using it as the video levels it is displaying are incorrect. Totally not usable for broadcast levels. Shooting XAVC on Sony FS7 and in Vegas 16 the correct black levels are displayed when the 16/235 box is checked. In Vegas 18 build 273 through the black levels are totally incorrect when set for 16/235. They are a full 50mV under '0' black level. I think this is a bug unless I've missed something. Anyone else experience this level mismatch? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Just realized if you drop the Vegas "Levels" plugin onto the head of the track selecting the preset "Computer RGB to Studio RGB" it then restores the blacks back to the correct levels. Trouble is it also reduces the rest of the video levels too much so not even a work-around. To me it's looking like a WFM bug... unless I've missed something obvious? Chris - CYV Productions
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Videoon 12/22/2018
VEGAS Pro 16 Update 3 (build 352) - General Discussion
Getting trouble with 352... Renders ok but the preview is shot. Exactly, destroyed preview. Win 10 8700k OC'd to 5GHz with GTX 1080 Ti. On this box with v15 build 461 I can play an S-LOG 3 1080 50p timeline with 3D LUts and grades at Best/Full at the full 50 FPs.with around 25-27% CPU usage. Perfect in other words. With v16 b 352 the exact same timeline staggers at around 25-30 Fps with CPU usage running at anywhere where between 96-100% CPU. Don't know what has happened but I had to go back to v15 b461. v16 b 307 has the issue where any legacy text on the timeline shows up in Project Media with random icons such as .AVI. If I change file associations in MPC-HC player then the Project Media Legacy Text icons can change to some other type of icon. This was fixed in b352 but sadly the playback issue is a major one. Have notified the Beta team of this. Hopefully hear something fresh in the New Year.
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Videoon 7/22/2018
render mpeg with 50p
If you really want MPEG-2 1920 x 1080 50p remember this is NOT part of the MPEG-2 specification. It can be done though and done pretty well using the MATROX VFW codec pack. This codec pack which renders under Video for Windows in Vegas can deliver an MPEG-2 I-Frame video anywhere from 50 to 300 Mbps. On a decent PC it is fast, utilizes Nvidia GPU for rendering and delivers very decent result. Just select it under the 'video format' in the render dialogue and then use the 'Configure' box to select any one of the Matrox codecs. http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/downloads/download/latest/?osID=6&productID=85&editingApplicationID=44 They are: The following VFW software codecs are provided for use on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems: Matrox DV/DVCAM Matrox DVCPRO Matrox DVCPRO50 Matrox DVCPRO HD Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame in SD and HD resolutions, with or without alpha Matrox Uncompressed in SD and HD resolutions, with or without alpha Matrox Offline HD (playback only) Matrox M-JPEG and HDV (playback only) Chris
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Videoon 7/20/2018
Vegas Pro 15 and GTX 1080Ti performance drop??
Thanks for you experience Bob. It's all grist to the mill and just goes to show what works on one box often doesn't on another. I'm also on Win 10, build 17134.165 and there is no way I can have Quicksync enabled on my 8700k in BIOS without screwing the Nvidia / Vegas GPU relationship. To try and get around this situation as an experiment I tried three times after enabling the Intel GPU in BIOS and with each new installation if the Intel GPU was on in BIOS and the Intel drivers were installed it killed the performance of the Nvidia GPU. The good Nvidia performance could not be recovered by turning off the Intel GPU and uninstalling the Intel drivers. The only thing that fixed it each time was going through the Update & Security menu using the "Reset this PC" option. Well I couldn't be bothered going through the full Reset option again for the 4th time so I'm just going to do away with the Quicksync encode option for the time being. Happy to do that to keep the very good Best / Full performance on 4K with the 1080Ti. A weird one indeed. Don't you just love these diagnostic sessions... not! Chris
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Videoon 7/19/2018
Vegas Pro 15 and GTX 1080Ti performance drop??
Thanks for feedback but I have now discovered what happened. As I said the timeline performance was great with Best / Full performance with 4k LOG footage with LUTs and grades applied then all of a sudden it dropped to 1-6 fps. Something had gone wrong. This is what I discovered. In BIOS I had enabled the on board IGPU that the newer i7's have. This is the Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU on the 8700k. I wanted to be able to access Intel's QuickSync. After enabling QuickSync Vegas 15's Nvidia performance when the GTX 1080Ti was selected just didn't perform as it had previously. Sure I now had access to QuickSync but somehow enabling Intel QS had somehow impacted the Vegas / Nvidia GPU interaction. The next step was to go back into BIOS and turn off the Intel iGPU 630 engine. After rebooting I was hoping that the previous good performance that Vegas had displayed with the Nvidia card would be restored. No this was not the case, the GTX 1080Ti just continued to stagger along slowly. Double checking the Preferences / Video tab did confirm that the 1080Ti was selected and that the Intel 630 was no longer an option. Yet even with the Intel QS option now disabled the Nivida / Vegas performance was now irreparably damaged. I then took the extreme step of doing doing a fresh Win 10 install. I then installed the Nvidia drivers v398.36 and Vegas 15 build 384. The previous great 4k Best / Full performance was now back and working beautifully. Obviously this Intel / Nvidia / Vegas interaction needs to be investigated further. I will feed this back to the Beta team. Chris
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Videoon 2/13/2015
XAVC-L
Great for the Mac boys but sadly no good for Vegas on PC CY
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Videoon 1/13/2015
XAVC-L
A small price to pay if you are using it professionally. For me it offers far more in many ways than Sony's Catalyst Prepare at $200. When I color correct I will do it in the NLE or Resolve not while importing footage. Re the importing and transcoding I find FootageStudio a lot quicker than either Browse or Prepare. Added to which it can convert to ProRes if needed on Windows which neither of the Sony packages can do.
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Videoon 1/13/2015
XAVC-L
I know for a lot of you have had issues decoding and converting the Sony XAVC-L 422 10-bit long GOP that comes with the X70 and some of the other PXW cameras. Well there is a bit of light on the horizon. I have been dealing with a guy named David on the Acrovid support team. Acrovid are the authors of FootageStudio4K. I sent him an XAVC-L clip a while back. The upshot is that he has got back to me with a download link for a trial version of FootageStudio4K that actually handles this codec beautifully. It can batch convert to many different codecs / wrappers etc, including many 'professional' codecs. This really opens up a new avenue for those of us stuck with nothing decent to decode these files. Early days so far but I am having great success in converting these XAVC-L clips to ProRes. What I see I like. Unlike some ProRes conversions FootageStudio4K appears to be maintaining the correct IRE and gamma levels of the original source footage. This is the gist of David's reply to me: =================== "I just uploaded a new update with support for Sony XAVC format, your sample file is processed fine, when processing you can also remove the empty audio tracks by unchecking them in the audio tab or in the trimming dialog. http://acrovid.com/footagestudio.htm Please note that actual version implements most filters in 8 bits, so if both input and output videos are in 10-bit, the video is converted to 8 bits for processing. The 16 bits conversions actually implemented are the direct transcoding, and video resample, this is, if you activate the video resample and both input and output videos are in 10-bit, then the resampling is done in 16 bits keeping all the quality. We are developing the full 16 bit processing version and I think will be ready in about 1 month, and of course it will be a free update for registered users." ===================
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Videoon 1/9/2015
XAVC-L
Until Vegas supports XAVC-L 422 10-bit MXF I would suggest using TotalCode from MainConcept which can batch transcode this codec to virtually any codec you need. http://www.mainconcept.com/products/applications/totalcode-studio.html
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Videoon 7/8/2005
6b hanging - sample veg files
It is a well-voiced problem on this forum and others. If you go back to a thread started by 'Greenmartian', 'V6b hangs during render', it’s around the #160+ mark and you will see that many of us have suffered some kind of render problem with V6b. It appears to be a memory 'hogging' problem that causes the system to run out of resources and hang. Problems I haven't seen in V5+. So far all we have heard is a deafening silence from Sony :-( Sorry to say I have no answer and I guess many others are in the same boat. The only thing I have been able to ascertain is that if you set your 'Dynamic RAM preview' to 16Mb, the default setting in V6 then it appears that you can render most timelines which have large JPEGs and 32 Bit TGAs without hanging. Notwithstanding it still uses a massive amount of Ram during the renders, way more than V5. Let's hope Sony get it fixed soon as many of us have gone back to V5 for reliability. Chris Young CYV Productions Sydney
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Videoon 7/8/2005
V6a MPEG 2 'loop region' render problem BUG?
Correction to my previous post. It is Vegas 6.0b I am having this problem with. Chris Young CYV Productions Sydney
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Videoon 6/15/2005
v6.0b hangs during render
Hmm! Guessed as much... something broken with V6b render engine. A job I had which kept hanging part way through the render finally finished rendering once I set the 'preview RAM' setting back to 16Mb. Previously it was set at 1Gig. Something not right here for sure. Sony advise not to have this setting too high as, quote, 'If you reserve excessive amounts of RAM for your RAM cache, performance may decrease'. Now that this job is done and out of the way I thought that I would try some experimentation. Setting preview ram to 64Mb and re-rendering the job I watched 'mem usage' in Task Manager go to .907 Gig and it used between 50 and 100% CPU overhead. This is with the process priority set to normal and affinity set to dual processor for V6, which is standard. This particular job took 25.61 minutes to render. Wherever I used Scot Moore's SMLuminance plugin the processors dropped to around fifty-percent CPU overhead, understandable, as this plug doesn't support multi threading. Next I did a 'select all’ and copied the timelines into V5d and did exactly the same render with the same 'preview ram' setting of 64Mb. Still using the same process priority and affinity settings as above and this time the 'mem usage' maxed out at .375 Gig. CPU overhead ranged between 50-60%. The maximum hit was 60%. The interesting thing is that this render completed in 20.41 minutes. Fully 20% faster in V5d when compared to V6b. This tells me that something is not correct with V6's render engine. I have also had a couple of situations now where I had Task Manager open while editing and just watched as the memory usage climbed up and up til finally V6 hung. This was whilst I had 'preview ram' set to 1 Gig to get some decent length previews. I haven't monitored 'mem usage' whilst editing with 'preview ram' set to a low figure yet but I will be trying that as it may be a work around for the time being til Sony can fix the problem. Shame! It's back to V5d for now. Hope Sony fixes it soon! Chris Young CYV Productions Sydney
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Videoon 6/14/2005
Is there an easy way to do NTSC to PAL?
Tried many different ways and by far the best results I have ever had was by using Canopus Procoder 2. Just bring in your NTSC avi and select a PAL target and the results are very good. In most cases the conversion is quicker than realtime. Chris Young CYV Productions Sydney
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