Still having trouble with jolting/flickering footage in Vegas 12 :(

[Dave Osbun]

I used to have the same types of issues at my transitions, but maybe 50% of the time. These problems went away when I switched to two hard drives in RAID 0 (striping) for my video clips, instead of the one high-speed external drive I was using.

Dave

[John Rofrano]

[Rebecca Starlowe] “I posted my issue not too long ago but I’m still having problems with working with old projects from Vegas 9, now in 12.”

You’re not going to like this answer but it is best to complete your Vegas Pro 9.0 projects in Vegas Pro 9.0 and start your new projects in Vegas Pro 12.0. While it “should” be compatible, I have found that a lot of people who are having strange problems are editing older projects.

[Rebecca Starlowe] “I am experiencing issues where some of my media clips, seems random, jolt around the screen when they are either crossfading with other clips, transitioning, or simply just moving onto the next clip in the timeline with no transitions or effects”

What is the source of the video? What codec do they use? You can use a free tool like MediaInfo to find out if you don’t know.

~jr

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[Rebecca Starlowe]

Thanks for the reply.

You’re not going to like this answer but it is best to complete your Vegas Pro 9.0 projects in Vegas Pro 9.0 and start your new projects in Vegas Pro 12.0.

Unfortunately when I tried to run Vegas 9 on my new computer it was just… sooooooo laggy it was unworkable. I would just click somewhere on the screen and it would just freeze up for a good minute. Even on a blank project. 12 for some reason has absolutely no issues whatsoever and is quite smooth even with projects with a lot of media to process.

I also tried a new project just to mess with some things and the flickering happened again with one of the transitioning clips. It’s completely random so I can’t really pin down where it’s going to happen.

What is the source of the video? What codec do they use?

I downloaded media info. Help me out with where I need to look? Sorry I am such a newb. -_-

[John Rofrano]

[Rebecca Starlowe] “I also tried a new project just to mess with some things and the flickering happened again with one of the transitioning clips. It’s completely random so I can’t really pin down where it’s going to happen.”

Try disabling GPU Acceleration in Options | Preferences | Video. This sounds like it might be a graphics card issue unless you are using media like DivX or Xvid or other unsupported codec.

[Rebecca Starlowe] “I downloaded media info. Help me out with where I need to look? Sorry I am such a newb. -_-“

Open the file with MediaInfo and look at one of the views. I like the Tree view. Then look under Video for the Format. It will tell you what codec it uses.

You can also use a tool like GSpot. It will look something like this:

~jr

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[Rebecca Starlowe]

You are my hero. I turned of GPU acceleration and looks like it’s working fine! I will go through each of my projects and make sure there are no more issues. By the way, what does GPU acceleration even do?

Thanks so much!

[John Rofrano]

[Rebecca Starlowe] “I turned of GPU acceleration and looks like it’s working fine! I will go through each of my projects and make sure there are no more issues. “

Great! I’m glad that worked.

[Rebecca Starlowe] ” By the way, what does GPU acceleration even do? “

It’s supposed to make playback smooth by utilizing the GPU on your graphics card. Unfortunately, it can also cause problems with playback at times.

~jr

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[Rebecca Starlowe]

Ok thanks again! Playback is still super smooth without it. 🙂

[John Rofrano]

[Rebecca Starlowe] “Playback is still super smooth without it. :)”

Well… if your GPU is slower than your CPU then it’s better to keep it off anyway.

~jr

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