Playback window lags and turns red

[Theo Van laar]

What is your footage?

Theo

[John Rofrano]

There have been problems with 60p video and Vegas. The latest Vegas Pro 9.0e has cleared much of this up but I see you are using a trial of Movie Studio 10 so that might not have the latest fixes.

You should not be shooting 60p unless you are specifically wanting to do slow motion work. I would guess that this is your problem. Try shooting some 30p from the same camera and see if that works.

~jr

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[Johnathan Mcpherson]

The video is .mov with H.264 compression, if thats what you are looking for.

Inconveniently, I was planning to do slow motion work with the video. Figures 🙁

I did find out the problem, I think, and I fixed it. It appears that the project file got corrupted. So I opened another window of vegas and copy and pasted and now its working with tolerable preview frame rates.

Unfortunately when I try to render the project, which I recently completed, the render process gets nearly nowhere when I get a low memory warning. I clearly don’t have low memory, and I can’t determine what’s wrong.

https://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7306/sonyvegasfailed.png

Any help will be appreciated!!

[John Rofrano]

Try rendering to Sony AVC MP4 instead of WMV. I have seen a lot of low memory errors with WMV rendering for some reason. Also make sure that your RAM preview memory is set to the default or to zero. That will make more memory available for rendering.

~jr

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[Johnathan Mcpherson]

I will give it a shot John. Thanks for your advice!

Although I have no reason to doubt you, I have rendered about 5 videos to .wmv with Vegas Pro 9. But they were not 720p60f source files, they were WVGA 30f. But who knows, its a new version of Vegas and completely different from what I am used to. I only chose Movie Studio Platinum because it had video stabilization which interested me. If this doesn’t work I am going to try pre-converting all my source files to the same file extension I am going to render to, just so Vegas doesn’t have to work so hard.

Thanks again!

[Johnathan Mcpherson]

Encoding in Sony AVC did not work, unfortunately. I then tried rendering to uncompressed .avi, which did not work. Then I tried to pre-render each 1 minute section and then final render, which did not work. I am going to try to convert my source video and if that does not work I am going to re-edit the movie on Vegas Pro 9 which I know works on my computer.

If you have any more ideas, I’d really appreciate it!