Upgrade my Windows 7 – Vegas 10.0 Editing Machine

[John Norton]

Hi Aaron and Geoff, hope you don’t mind be jumping in as I am curious about the mention of .mov not being ideal for Vegas. This is mediainfo info on an old gh3 .mov clip, using highest gh3 bitrate. Its probably similar to Geoffs.

I checked/loaded using vegas pro 13 and V14, both report compoundplug.dll. I have Quicktime installed on win10 pc.

Can I take it Aaron that Quicktime is NOT used for this file? since its compoundplug.dll.

Complete name : F:\34.mov
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt 2011.07 (qt /pana)
File size : 132 MiB
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 72.1 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11
PANA : DMC-GH3

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 70.4 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 71.7 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.359
Stream size : 129 MiB (98%)
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11
Color range : Full
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : twos
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 2.81 MiB (2%)
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11

Other
ID : 3
Type : Time code
Format : QuickTime TC
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Time code of first frame : 13:22:59:18
Time code, striped : Yes
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11
Bit rate mode : CBR

[Aaron Star]

Yes the fact that Vegas is using compoundplug.dll. show that it is working native, and not using QT. My nikons shoot in .mov/AVC and editing without converting is fine just not as smooth. Converting to XDCAM or cineform just gives you a much smoother timeline scrub, and better GPU acceleration of effects.

I do not have a tine experience working with projects operating in that mode. So I can not speak to the Vegas stability vs .MXF formats.

There is a script that allows you to turn vegas into a batch render utility.

If you do have stability issues, you may want to verify your machine operation, then try and re-wrap the media using an FFMPEG batch.

[John Norton]

“Yes the fact that Vegas is using compoundplug.dll. show that it is working native, and not using QT.”

Thanks, glad to know that.

[Geoff Chandler]

Aaron,

Thanks for all that information great stuff.

Here’s what I did today. I purchase an upgrade to Vegas 14 pro and so far, just with that change, the timeline seems to be smooth as silk.

Geoffrey

https://www.chandlervideo.com