Sony Vegas Render Issues

[George Dean]

In preferences, I would set the Dynamic RAM preview max back down to the default of ‘200’. Then GPU acceleration of video processing to ‘Off’.

For source media, download the free ‘Mediainfo’ application. Caution, most installations will default to install other apps which you do not need or will want, so pay attention to the install/download process and uncheck any unwanted apps they sometimes package with ‘Mediainfo’. Start Mediainfo and on the ‘View’ tab set it to ‘Text’. Then use the ‘File’ tab to load your source media. Post a screen shot of this text display.

Best Regards……George

[Matheus Dale]

[Graham Bernard]

That’s the General Tab. We need more of the detailed stuff.

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[George Dean]

Matheus, the Mediainfo we need in Text mode will look something like this….

Best Regards……George

[Graham Bernard]

[George Dean] “Matheus, the Mediainfo we need in Text mode will look something like this….”

Thanks George. I was loosing the will to…. ????

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[George Dean]

Graham, I understand.

Matheus, another thing which may help is to upload your project file.

Best Regards……George

[Matheus Dale]

[Aaron Star]

So your source material is 1920×1080 prores 422 @ like 400mb/s, and you are outputting to a hugely compressed format like AVC constrained to 8-bits and 24mbs.

Your media will never look the same, unless you work inside the box of what the compressed media is able to reproduce. You should be rendering to a codec and format that best matches the original format of the source media. With Vegas, HD-CAM SR-lite 422.mxf would be an HD grade prores HQ equivalent, or Sony XAVC-intra.mxf would another alternative.

Assuming your source media is actually encoded/produced at a high grade like Prores HQ 422. You should be CCing and rendering your project in 32-bit mode. Editing can be done in 8-bit mode. This is also assuming that your system has a better than 8-bit display & GPU, and proper high bandwidth cabling attached.

Your media looks to be animation, so you could alternatively work all your material in image sequence mode, using something like .PNG with no compression. With animation, this is a nice way to work because you can change 3 frames out of the entire sequence, and not render out an entire new sequence just to change a detail in 3 frames.

[Graham Bernard]

Wow, thanks Aaron. You’ve filled in some of my misunderstandings. Kudos. ????

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[George Dean]

Aaron,

I think you are looking at my example to Matheus, as to what a text view from Mediainfo will look like. His last post showing his low resolution capture video is his 720 source.

Best Regards……George