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Vegas10 Studio HD – Problems previewing WMV and DIVX
I am using Vegas Movie Studio 10 HD Platinum to create a 5 minute video using many clips (mostly WMV files captured from TV via windows 7 – Movie Maker) on the timeline. The clips are in HD resolution. I have tried to make the preview in draft mode with less details. My PC and laptop have issues previewing. The previewing is either very slow, or black, or just hangs. Are there any tips that someone can suggest? I have used older Sony Movie Studio versions to edit non-HD videos without much trouble. I also tried version 9 to edit the HD, with the same issues.
Any suggestions for the previewing ?
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If at all possible, use a different format for your source recordings. WMV and DIVX do not edit well in Vegas (and probably other editors too) as they’re heavily compressed formats and are only designed for playback.
If you have to capture in WMV, then you might need to transcode to another format that’s easier to edit. Try HDV (MPEG2 HD) for starters.
Does your output video need to be HD? If not (like if you’re rendering for a DVD) then you could try recording (or converting your recordings) to standard def rather than trying to edit HD.
What are your laptop and PC specs? CPU type/speed, RAM etc? You need a fairly beefy modern PC to edit HD video easily.
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I’ll try to convert from WMV. I’ll need to do it for like a 100 clips. Is there a good utility for doing this at once instead of one by one? If I can select all and then let the utility do it, would save alot of time.
No I don’t necessarily need HD output…
My laptop is dual core 2.3 GHZ with 4GB running windows 7, but my PC is older running XP.
“If at all possible, use a different format for your source recordings. WMV and DIVX do not edit well in Vegas (and probably other editors too) as they’re heavily compressed formats and are only designed for playback.
If you have to capture in WMV, then you might need to transcode to another format that’s easier to edit. Try HDV (MPEG2 HD) for starters.
Does your output video need to be HD? If not (like if you’re rendering for a DVD) then you could try recording (or converting your recordings) to standard def rather than trying to edit HD.
What are your laptop and PC specs? CPU type/speed, RAM etc? You need a fairly beefy modern PC to edit HD video easily.
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There are several batch transcoding utilities including Super (search for eRightSoft) and MediaCoder. Both are a bit techy and you need to understand a lot of settings. I haven’t used either utility for ages so can’t really advise on settings. There are sure to be other apps too.
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Thanks.
I tried last night after converting some WMV HD clips to lower resolution MPG clips and so far preview has been working fine. In the past I have always used DIVX clips for editing and usually not too much trouble. I may convert these too.
What are the preferred video input formats for Sony Vegas Movie Studio (non-pro) ?
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MPEG2 HDV (1440×1080) is fairly smooth to decode and edit even on medium spec machines. AVCHD from camcorders is OK but needs a decent machine for good editing/previewing.
For standard definition, just use DV AVI (the same format as DV cameras use, but gives fairly big files) or MPEG2 at 8Mbps or so (same as DVDs use). Both of these are easy to edit even on modest PCs.
Basically, avoid highly compressed formats like MPEG4/AVC, AVCHD, WMV, DIVX.
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