4k performance in Vegas

[Daniel Barraclough]

Right-click video in Project Media tab > select Create Video Proxy.

Set Preview Window to Draft or Preview

Set Preview Window back to Good or Best > original HD versions of videos will play instead.
Daniel Barraclough

[Phil Gates]

Ah great, i didn’t even know this feature. Thank you very much!

[Matthew Jeschke]

Not sure what your machine is, but I’m not sure that’s the issue. You can edit with proxies as mentioned but I always found that to be a pain.

I’d recommend upgrading to Vegas 17, it’s only a couple hundred bucks. I’ve done quite a few of the upgrades since I started with Vegas back at Vegas 10. The last upgrade to 16 was pretty decent.

This update to 17 seemed to be a big leap in performance though. I didn’t upgrade anything on my computer, the timeline playback and editing seem much more stable and fast with this 17 than any of the previous versions.

My guess is they updated more of the FX to have GPU support. I’ve contacted Magix to ask about this when I built my machine and they are a bit of a closed door. I think the software is catching up to hardware from 3 and 4 years ago. (pretty typical of software development).

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[Phil Gates]

Hello Matthew,

while the proy method worked for a single clip, Vegas always crashed after 5 or 6 imported videos (no matter which clips). It seemed like Vegas just couldn’t handle the file sizes.

I just installed a Vegas 17 trial and indeed, there were no problems concerning importing files or playback (even 30fps at best quality is no problem). I will definetly upgrade now (was about time anyway i guess).

So thank you very very much! Of all the things that could have fixed this, a software upgrade is the one thing I expected the least.

[David Martin]

Actually, upgrading to Vegas 17 did not fix my problem (the same as Phil’s). Making a video proxy and previewing at the “Preview” quality seems to work. Will I have to re-create this for every editing session or is the video proxy “attached” to the file now?

I have this problems even with 1080p videos and I have a pretty powerful machine as well, so it seems strange to have to go through this additional step.

[Aaron Star]

I would try converting some footage to XAVC Intra MXF format and see if that play back is smoother. Camera formats are not always the best to edit in. Sounds like there is a problem with the .MOV encoding that Fuji is doing.

What I have found with Vegas is that certain file formats, and codecs are more optimized for GPU playback. You may need to try a couple. If you are seeing skips or … after the FPS indicator, then the format is not fully rendering in time for smooth playback.

With Vegas 13 and AMD GPU with good OpenCL Floating point scores is best. Vegas 15+ seems to utilize more NVENC functions for playback, so make sure to understand how NVENC versions support different video standards/sizes/desired color depths and concurrent streams.