Vegas 14 sloooow to load

[László Kovács]

Hi,

Sorry to say YES. 🙁
What footage do you have in that project?
The project I’m experiencing this problem contains .m2t and .mxf files as footage.
( https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/1013713#1013774 )
During open that project I checked Task manager and resource monitor to see where the bottleneck could be.
I found that Vegas 14 reads .m2t and .mxf files very intensive.
Once I got to the timeline Vegas looks to behaves normal.

Best regards

László Kovács

[Graham Bernard]

My experience – just tested.

Aim:
To compare MXF Load times between VP13 and VP14.

Base DATA:
Canon XF300 MXF Media.
Project Media Size: 1.11 GBs
Project Run-time: 3mins 5 secs

Experiment:

• Timed against a iOS9 APPLE Stopwatch.
• Ran alternating, separate iterations of VP13 and VP14 which contained the same amount and same MXF media.
• On closing VP13 and VP14 interrogated Project Manager to confirm their completed closure

Results:

• VP13: 10.1 secs ; 9.4 secs ; 9.7 secs ; MM removed 9.7
• VP14: 14.0 secs ; 12.3 secs ; 12.9 secs ; MM removed 9.3 secs ; Again no MM 9.4

Observations:
Obs 1: Note worthy drop in load time when Media Manager is removed from VP14 Project. Here that is a difference of between 4 and 3 seconds over a 03:05 project.
Obs 2: However, removal of Media Manager from VP13 makes no difference.

Conclusions:
VP13 would appear to be optimized to load Media Manager and VP14 is not.

Recommendation:
I present these finding to MAGIX for their advise.

* 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

[Steve Kauzlarich]

Thanks for looking into this guys! I am indeed using m2t files. My cameras (V1u and Z5u) both use this format. I know that m2t files load into Vegas more slowly than modern codecs (and probably render slower as well) but 6-7 minutes seemed excessive. I’ll contact Magix and see what’s up.

Steve Kauzlarich

[László Kovács]

Hi Steve!

I’m sure this is a new bug introduced in Vegas 14, and it should not behave that way.
Report the issue to Magix, they need to fix it.

Best regards

László Kovács

[Steve Kauzlarich]

Yes – I opened a ticket with Magix earlier today. I think you’re right about the m2t files Laszlo – we’ll see what Magix says.

The 60 gig veg won’t even open on my older 8 processor Dell. After 30 minutes of loading and choking, and 28 gigs of ram, it finally ran out of memory and died.

Thanks

Steve Kauzlarich

[László Kovács]

Hi,
I can confirm.
The last wedding I did with my old V1E last year in august, is impossibble to open with V14.
The footage is about 75 GB, the veg file is 1.8MB
Never opens in V14 🙁

Best regards

László Kovács

[Red-rob Rothkopf]

When loading my V14 project, it is taking *21 minutes* to load.
0-3%

• instant
• @3% 11 minutes
• @ 11% 10

minutes –> Timeline populates then and project seems loaded.

@ 3% my CPU was at 16% (Vegas using 15%), memory @ 28% and Disk I/O at 52 MB/s
When loaded fully, CPU was at 36% (Vegas using 33%), memory @ 56%.

I loaded a V10 version of this project into V10, and it loads instantly. (that version was from beginning of day — since then I’ve tweaked LOTS of edits, audio envelopes, and added media effects (mostly color correct).

To assure it wasn’t my changes, I then loaded that same V10 version of the project into V14 as a control. Similar results to my newer V14 version of that project.

• 0-6% 3 minutes
• 6%-11%->100% 11 minutes
• Sat at 100% for another 11 minutes then the timeline loaded.

Because of the theories here that it is the .M2T file format, I loaded that V10 project into V10, removed the .M2T and loaded in both V10 and V14. I ran this test while also rendering an AC3 file in another window.. so I expect these results to be a bit slower than otherwise due to that. That said — without the .M2T file, the load times were as follows:

• V10: 103 seconds
• V14: 130 seconds it jumped from 12 to 100%. Then took an additional 106 seconds sitting at 100% before the timeline

loaded.

MANY times faster than with the .M2T file in V14. So, clearly the .M2T file is causing the majority of the excessive load times (and me to stay up way later than I should! 😉 ) Then there’s some other process after it gets to 100% which is causing an additional delay, significantly quicker still without the .M2T file.

How best to report bugs to MAGIX team?

[László Kovács]

Hi,

Open a support ticket, and describe the problem.
I guess a week later you’ll get a response telling that they are investigating the problem, or something similar.

Than, my best hope is there will be an update soon, which addresses this bug.

Best regards

László Kovács

[Steve Kauzlarich]

I haven’t yet heard a peep from Magix since reporting this problem early last week. Thursday I couldn’t find anyway to check on my trouble ticket. I called them again but phone numbers were asking me te enter odd codes to continue onto “A” then “B” and then told me the codes didn’t match. I called sales but the line was continuously busy. My guess is that they are on overload.

Sticking with V13 for now. V14 eventually opens on my new Boxx computer but I sure wouldn’t want to risk a crash or reboot, especially when working with a client.

Steve Kauzlarich

[Red-rob Rothkopf]

> “open a support ticket”

easier said than done!!

went to their site, and they don’t have an option for a Vegas 14 support issues… they have older SCS software (through 13) and other products they sell.. but not Vegas 14!!

grrrrr