Sony Vegas Monitor Issue

[Steve Rhoden]

I’m tempted to go Mac, each time i sit at my workstation, lol
But i honestly cant cram anymore New software and technological
learning in my head right now, sheeesh, too much in there already.
Why the hell Mac is always a step ahead of Microsoft in so many areas beats me!

Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
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[John Rofrano]

[Steve Rhoden] “Why the hell Mac is always a step ahead of Microsoft in so many areas beats me!”

Honestly? …because Microsoft doesn’t innovate. They follow the trends. Every time they try and innovate, you get a debacle like the Metro interface. It’s just not in their culture i guess.

~jr

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[Shawn Steele]

I have a similar issue Vegas 13 – It’s scaling, but it’s scaling WAY TOO MUCH – Icons and menus are OK, but the text is ginormous. And the window sizes are too small for the scaled text.

Win10 running a 4K monitor @ 125% scaling.

[John Rofrano]

[shawn steele] “Win10 running a 4K monitor @ 125% scaling.”

Microsoft Windows scalling is broken. I wouldn’t run it at anything but 100%. Change the monitor resolution if you have to but don’t scale the text. t won’t work properly because of the way the Windows APIs work. Which is why I say that they are broken. I wish Microsoft would fix this.

~jr

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[John Laird]

What video card are you using? Be careful that your card can handle the 4 k res. I have seen this problem when trying to render 4k with a card set at a lower res as it can’t cope with the higher resolution of the video. Your monitor is not the only item which has to be powerful to handle 4k. When this issue happened to me I saw an indication POPUP the card crashed.

John

[Robert Engle]

I have the Ge Force 760 TI and the 560 Ti video cards. But im not rendering in 4K just HD regular for now. I do have the issue fixed the post after yours I tried what he said and it worked.
Thanks

[Tim Neighbors]

Hi John,
I realize this is an old thread. I’m looking to buy a laptop that I’ll use with Vegas and Adobe CC. With Vegas 14 will this still be an issue if I get a Win10 laptop with a 4K display? Will all of the icons and text be tiny or have they since improved the scaling ability of the software? I was hoping that a higher resolution monitor would allow me to see focus better on the smaller screen of a laptop and possibly make it more tolerable to work on a single monitor. Am I better off going with a 1080 monitor paired with a second, external monitor?

Thanks!

[John Rofrano]

[Tim Neighbors] “With Vegas 14 will this still be an issue if I get a Win10 laptop with a 4K display? Will all of the icons and text be tiny or have they since improved the scaling ability of the software?”

Sorry Tim but I don’t use Vegas Pro or a PC anymore so I really can’t answer your questions.

I moved to a Mac Pro 12-Core and now use Final Cut Pro X and it looks absolutely gorgeous on a 5K display. 😉

~jr

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[Aaron Star]

I really do not understand questions like this. Just buy the laptop you are thinking about, load the apps (even if they are trials), then test. If the product sucks and you cannot read it, return the product and let them know why.

I would not buy a laptop to do image editing, maybe photoshop if the display is good enough. Laptops (windows, Linux, or Apple-linux) are crap generally in the hardware department. Portable chip makers tend to name the laptop components inline with the desktop counterparts, but they do not have the same performance abilities in anyway. You have to buy higher end laptops to get a decent display, apple or windows for that matter.

Even just comparing GFLOP performance on CPU and GPU between laptop and workstation, would give you a simple view of what I am talking about. There are plenty of other

But if you are a road video warrior that needs to edit from a different motel6 room every night. Maybe a laptop is the best solution in that case.

[Tim Neighbors]

Thanks for the info Aaron. But I need to get a laptop that will work relatively soon, so I’m hoping somebody out there has an answer to my question. No time for buying, installing, returning, and buying again.