Smooth editing on Sony Vegas Pro 11&12

[Steve Rhoden]

Vegas doesn’t edit in real time.
You experience smooth playback after you render your project.
You do not need any conversion program, Vegas converts perfectly
for almost any format.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Tony D. [cbmg]]

Well not real time but when I watch through the preview its so choppy I have to shift+b every clip, but when i throw a m2t in there it plays straight thru.

[Steve Rhoden]

Seems you are not understanding the dynamics of editing
or with Vegas, what you are experiencing is normal.
You can however try setting the preview window to
Preview Half or Preview Quarter for smoother playback
but with resolution loss.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Tony D. [cbmg]]

NO I totally understand what you are sayin Steve, but there are people on here who do not experience any sort of lag or choppiness whatsoever… When I drop my .mov files from my T2i I get choppy playback in my preview whether its “Best” “Good” “Preview” “Draft”… However, when I drop a .M2t file in it playsback without any lag or choppiness.. its something with the codec… I use to render my files to .M2t now I render them to .mp4…. The files that I render to .M2T when I drop them in Sony Vegas they play back fine without any choppiness so I thought that if I just convert all my work to .m2t I would be able to edit it with a smoother workflow..

[Graham Bernard]

[ToNY D. [cbmg]] “When I drop my .mov files from my T2i I get choppy playback in my preview”

(And there you have it Steve.) You are getting choppiness with MOV playback. Is that ONLY with MOV? Or does other media play-back choppy too?

Perhaps one of the MOV Gurus would like to chip in here?

Is your Project Settings set to the M2T content? What happens if you do a test and, only using a small piece of MOV with that TEST project set to match the MOV?

Here I’m guessing, but Vegas is attempting to match your M2T content to the MOV whilst you are previewing within a M2T project. If that’s the case it’s quite amazing that Vegas keeps up at all.

Grazie

[Tony D. [cbmg]]

I’ve been using Vegas for 2 years now and never came across that in the project settings you can change the type of file its playin back “.m2t” I am going to check now and see.. However in Vegas 12 when I drop the file in the timeline it ask if I want to adjust project settings to the files properties and I say yes. .Mp4 play a little better but .MOV is extremely choppy it skips constantly but I am telling you, these .m2t files play back without any lag or stopping I played a 4 minute music video that was in at .m2t format in vegas without any problems. .MOV files can only last 3 seconds before the frames start skipping around…

[Mark Barton]

I seem to recall others finding this related to the version of QuickTime installed. The codecs are installed within Windows (buried in the registry settings), so installing or uninstalling other applications that have codecs impact all of Windows and not just Sony Vegas. Earlier in the year, Sony Vegas Pro 8, 10, and 11 stopped playing my m2ts files. After days of searching the forums and running some utilities, I learned that it was because I uninstalled Adobe Photoshop Elements (not even the version with Premier). Adobe had installed a codec to view my m2ts files and it was marked as the “best” codec to use. The uninstaller for Adobe did not remove itself from the list, but did remove the supporting dll files for the codec. This is why you see people recommending a fresh install of Windows and installing only what you use for software, since it can be very time consuming to find the actual problem. In your case it seems to be narrowed down to mov files and that points to applications that have installed codecs to process mov files.

The utilities I used at the time were GraphStudio and CodecTweakTool.