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Editing in HD
Hi,
I’m editing on Vegas 8.0 using windows Vista and I’m having all sorts of problems. I have 4 gigs of ram and a quad core 2.4 ghz processor. My video card is a Radeon HD.
I’ve imported HD footage from my friends JVC Everio which pulls in as a proprietery M2T format I beleive, but I converted it to MPG. When I attempt to trim clips, add effects, or even expand the timeline my system slows to a crawl. It gets so bad with 3 or more video tracks that I can’t edit.
I’ve attempted converting all of the video to AVI but still had a similar experience. Is there any kind of upgrade I can do? I love Vegas but if I can’t edit HD I may have to soon move to a mac. My friend has a iMac and edits HD on iMovie as smooth as silk. I don’t want to move to a mac, but I may have to. Can anyone help?
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2 Replies
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I remember reading about a similar problem on one of the many Vegas forums out there.
Strange as it may sound, the solution was to replace the Radeon card with an nVidia. -
I edit m2t all the time without problems. you can convert to an intermediate format in Vegas called Cineform, which is CPU frendly. JVC HDV cameras are 1280 by 720p I believe so try that Cineform preset. Try downloading a freeware called VLC and play the M2T files and see how smooth they play. If they play smooth, it’ll rule out the video card, which I thought made no difference on preview speed.
Here’s a link to fre VLC player.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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