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Videoon 11/12/2018
VEGAS Pro 16 Update 2 (build 307) - General Discussion
I can add some information that may be helpful for the developers. I run Vegas Pro on Windows 10, 32GB, i5-4570, NVIDIA GTX 770 with latest drivers. I also expericence rather random crashes with Build 307. But there seems to be a faint pattern. Crashes tend to happen more often when - I edit and play back clips quickly on the timeline, with quick jumps from one point in time to another - clips with speed changes on more than one layer are involved - clips are 4K MP4 (H.264) from Panasonic GH-4 - preview display is enabled on a second monitor (using the Windows graphics card) Crashes during rendering are quite rare, which is a good thing. They are also rare when I work more slowly just color correcting for example, from still point to still point with no quick changes between playback and stop. To me this looks like the culprits may hide 1) in H.264 handling, 2) in file access (feels somewhat related to the old iosomething.dll problem prior to Vegas 12). This is just a guess, but it feels like several parallel threads are not safe and tend to kill each other. Please don't stop to improve Vegas! The "scrub in thumbnails" feature is a great and much needed addition, in a hopefully future stable environment a great leap forward for Vegas.
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Messageson 9/13/2017
[Release] VEGAS Pro 15 – Inspiration Meets Productivity
While there seem to be some minor bugs in version 15 build 177, I can report this new version overall runs really stable from scratch on my stationary PC (Nvidia GTX770) as well as my laptop (Intel HD graphics 520). The vastly improved AVC/AAC rendering speed seems to work flawlessly so far and has proven extremely helpful to me. Looks like Vegas has steered onto the right track again - please keep moving that way!
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Videoon 3/9/2017
(FAQ) Graphics Cards & GPU-Acceleration for VEGAS Pro
Thanks Nick for these detailed instructions and thoughts! This encouraged me to plug an older Radeon 7750 card into my system which runs all PC displays from a GeForce GTX 770 card. And I would like to share that this works like a charm: 3 displays plugged into the GeForce card for all software application windows, but GPU acceleration within Vegas 14 redirected to the Radeon 7750. Works stable and seems to be really fast (no benchmark tests, though, just my impression). Moreover I can redirect the preview to BM Intensity Pro 4K as well using these settings. So I can encourage everyone to test configurations like that based on the FAQ article - I never imagined this might work, but it does.
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Offtopicon 2/22/2017
Wie seid ihr zu VEGAS Pro gekommen?
Mein Einstieg war Vegas 4. Die extrem guten Audiofunktionen waren viel besser als bei der Konkurrenz (und sind es wohl noch heute - welches andere Videoschnittprogramm kennt Submixe/Routing?), ebenso der gemischte Schnitt unterschiedlichster Codecs ohne vorherige Wandlung, spurweise zuweisbare Effekte und der hervorragende Workflow. Ich kannte sonst nur von WaveLab die schöne Funktionalität, dass Faden und Trimmen direkt an den Clipenden möglich waren - damals in anderen Programmen, die mir persönlich sonst begegneten, unverständlicherweise nicht verfügbar. Ich halte das für unverzichtbar und für eine extreme Geschwindigkeitssteigerung, deshalb war ich damals sofort angestochen. Äußerst wichtig war und ist mir auch die Sicherheit, dass bei der Professionalität keine Abstriche gemacht wurden und werden: Korrekter Umgang mit Halbbildern, mit Alphakanälen, Auflösungen, Farbmanagement, Audioleveln etc. - Vegas möge bitte ein Profiprogramm bleiben und niemals in den Hobbybereich abrutschen!
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Messageson 2/22/2017
VEGAS Pro 14 Update 4 (build 211)
Thank you Nick! Updating to newest .NET framework helped to fix the broken window layout. Actually the external preview problem with ProRes seems to be solved as well - one mistake was to mark "10 bit encoding" in conjunction with the BM card. With that unchecked the playback rate is 25fps and Vegas does not crash anymore. Maybe the .NET framework update had some positive effect there as well, that's hard to say.
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Messageson 2/16/2017
VEGAS Pro 14 Update 4 (build 211)
Again thanks for your great work! There seems to be trouble, though, with using Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4K as a preview device in cunjunction with ProRes files - after a few seconds of playback Vegas 14 (211) crashes, that's repeatable. With other file formats I use (MP4 for instance) the Intensity Pro preview works, albeit with some serious resource usage that has almost trouble to play back 1080p25 without any effects in real time. Might be a BM driver issue, I'm not sure. Using Win7, 32GB, i5-4570, GTX770 4GB - should be sufficient for much more. There was a thread about performance issues with BlackMagic cards here: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/what-s-up-with-t-l-playback-speed--104538/ Thanks a lot for redirecting me to the other thread, but I still need to bother you again. After reading the discussion there I checked the PCI lane thing, i.e. I took out the smaller second Nvidia graphics card I had installed in the system. Also, I moved the BM card higher up on the motherboard. Still no luck -in conjunction with ProRes files-. The playback of, say, MP4, works normally with 25 fps and does not crash. So I de-installed Quicktime once and forever which had still been on my system for emergency use. Again, no effect: The playback of ProRes 422 with preview directed to the BM card doesn't go further up than to 22 fps, and after a few seconds of playback Vegas crashes. So there might be a hidden issue concerning ProRes or the preview chain. I can also mention that from the very beginning of using Vegas 14 the preview preferences window is somewhat broken: Selecting BM cards, it looks like this... ... and switching to "windows graphics card" it looks like this: So with the option of "windows grpahics card" the monitor selection is just not there anymore, I cannot select anything. This is new, because with Vegas 13 this worked fine on the very same system. Also, there's no difference between having 1 or 2 graphics cards installed, having BM installed or not, and also no change if I select another or no graphics card for video acceleration on the other pref tab. I can work around this using the enlarged standard preview -window- on my large monitor, but there must be something wrong. Thanks for your help!
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Messageson 2/11/2017
VEGAS Pro 14 Update 4 (build 211)
Again thanks for your great work! There seems to be trouble, though, with using Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4K as a preview device in cunjunction with ProRes files - after a few seconds of playback Vegas 14 (211) crashes, that's repeatable. With other file formats I use (MP4 for instance) the Intensity Pro preview works, albeit with some serious resource usage that has almost trouble to play back 1080p25 without any effects in real time. Might be a BM driver issue, I'm not sure. Using Win7, 32GB, i5-4570, GTX770 4GB - should be sufficient for much more.
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Messageson 1/9/2017
VEGAS Pro 14 Update 4 (build 211)
I'm glad to see that in the English forum the development team is actually and actively responding to questions and suggestions. The German side doesn't really do that and apparently doesn't understand Vegas yet, maybe the team here in Germany is too small as well. We'll see. Thumbs up to all Vegas developers, especially the guys who have been on board for years: In my opinion you have invented a truly groundbreaking editing software, and your current competitors had to invest years of work to come close to the Vegas workflow. I appreciate that there's a chance now Vegas will survive despite of some parts now being outdated. (I've started with version 4.0 so long ago... and still want to stick to it.)
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