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What do you do before editing ?
Do you convert your footage ?
Do you use proxies ?What is your process, that you go trough, before starting to edit ?
For me it was just get the footage on computer, import it, start editing, but I got tired of preview always lagging/stuttering, my editing being laggy too…
I’m looking for new ways that are lag free. -
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I go to the camera shop. I take/capture video on the camera I’m considering purchasing. I take the SD or whatever, and make sure VP XX can use it. I’ve done this since 2002 and it appears to work quite nicely. No proxies and no need for conversion.
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
Considering that whatever cameras you have and the format they record, and the computer you have for editing, and you want to stay with whatever version of Vegas Pro you have, and you do not have the funds to switch any of them out, you may be forced to render out to intermediates or proxies. But even if you do this, if your computer system doesn’t have enough horsepower, your editing preview my slow down during transitions and heavy FX work.
If your source media is in a heavily compressed delivery format, it is going to tax your system to run the preview playback at normal speed. If you like your cameras, then you may want to consider upgrading your editing computer system with a higher speed processor, more cores, more and faster memory, a GPU supported by your Vegas Pro version, and SSD drives for the program drive and your work drive.
If the budget doesn’t allow upgrading any part of your workflow, then you may be left with proxies if you don;t mind working with a lower resolution preview quality, or spend the time before editing to render out intermediate or uncompressed files. None of this will improve the quality of your source media, but would probably retain the quality to visually lossless and then improve your playback speed/smoothness except under heavy FX’s and/r transitions.
Until I upgraded my desktop PC, I would render out intermediates (either CineForm or Magic YUV) which would run full quality preview playback through transitions and light FX and color correction. Other source media I have is DNxHD 422 10 bit and ProRes HQ, which all playback directly from the camera. I now have a PC that will, for the most part, playback at highest quality normal speed even for the occasional clip I get in h.264/mp4.
I never liked editing with proxies, as to do so it requires reducing the quality of the preview and takes about the same amount of time, although more management in organizing and storing the source from the intermediates is required when batch rendering source media into intermediates.
Just the way I have done things in the past when my desktop wasn’t up to par with the requirements I desired. If you get to the point that proxies and intermediates are not required, as Grazie points out, the happier you are going to be, but you already know that, as the basis for your questions.
Best Regards……George
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