[Aaron Star]

“It’s kind of the same argument about Apple computers not getting viruses, it’s not that you can’t write viruses for Apple systems. But rather it’s far more unlikely because of the smaller user base.”

This is no longer the case, it was the case back on the old Mac OS. To me the X in OSX has more to do with the change to Unix as the core, than the a number. That opens up Apple systems to the same vulnerabilities and exploits as Unix, and there a ton of them. The installed base of Unix is huge and so there is potential to write worms or other exploits. iOS is simply a variant on OS, and so that too has a problems. Hence the celebrity text stealing and other high profile articles in the news.

I think a mass majority of the apple users still believe your statement, which is simply not contemporary. Since Mac users are not tech oriented folks, the risks are probably greater than an to an average Windows or Unix user.

[Aaron Star]

I use Vegas plus the batch render region script. That combo turns the Vegas timeline into a large horizontal batch tool.

or

Batch scripting FFMPEG

[Aaron Star]

Fastest way to edit in Vegas is to shoot in xdcam.mxf, pre-render your bumpers in xdcam.mxf, assemble in Vegas, render to xdcam.mxf. This will smart render your footage, and the resulting file can be directly uploaded to YouTube.

.mp4 file format is a slow word.

[Aaron Star]

Best way is to contact the poster, and have them provide you with terms of use, or obtain written permission to use the footage.

They may also provide you with better than YouTube quality video to include in your work.

If the footage is not marked GPL, then the poster did not intend it to be used beyond the agreed upon terms with YouTube.

[Aaron Star]

If your project settings are 1080p, when you drop the 4K footage on the timeline Vegas will auto scale the footage to 1080.

Use the Pan Crop tool on the clip, or a separate track and use track motion, to crop in on the 4k footage and re-frame the to your taste. You can use the resolution numbers on the side to enter in exact frame size, in your case 1920×1080. You can also key frame the crop to stabilize, resize, or maintain the visual focus on a subject. Using the GRID overlay on the preview, you can set key frames every 10 frames or 1 sec intervals to maintain a rough lock on a subject.

[Aaron Star]

Can you list more info on your system specs, and possibly the “mediainfo”(its an app) on your timeline files?

From my recollection of Vegas 11, it was not that stable with h264(mp4) media, GPU acceleration was new and not that stable. Have you verified that you are running the last update or build of Vegas 11?

Some other things to check:

• Preview RAM should be default and not set to anything else.
• Try disabling GPU if your system has a supported card. This requires a restart of Vegas.
• Verify your System RAM with memtest86+ V4 or better, outside of windows. Windows does a great job of covering up hardware errors and still attempt to keep running. When you project size grows, Vegas will start consuming large amounts of memory. One bad block in a stick could cause Vegas to fail, but not windows.
• As a test, I would try converting your camera media to XDCAM.MFX, HDCAM.MXF, or Cineform.avi to a new folder. Then try your long format project by pointing to the new media, and see if that fails in the same way.

[Aaron Star]

Of course Sony’s front end sale will be telling you to move to their new product. Sales/profit, market share and other factors will dictate how they proceed.

I have thought that Vegas may be renamed, but will likely fit into another octagon of the catalyst product line. The catalyst product line graphic is more broken out applications than an all-in-one app.

Personally, this strategy may back fire as there is nothing really compelling about Catalyst edit, its lack of format support, and abilities.

[Aaron Star]

The processes I don’t like the looks of in the list provided are:

Classic Start Menu

AVG – lose it and use windows defender integrated with Windows. Then run Malware bytes once a month to verify.

Unchecky – Not sure what this is but sounds like freeware.

After uninstalling questionable apps, run CCleaner + the reg clean, reboot.

Then preform an sfc /scannow from an admin command prompt. Research and repair any issues found.

Then process windows pending updates.

Make sure you are using the latest build of Vegas.

[Aaron Star]

I do not think it is wise to tell people not to upgrade their windows. Its just not smart. My experience with windows upgrade has bee very positive over the years, and I have not had a core application stop working due to an upgrade.

Any trouble I have had, has been due to 3rd party apps. Since then I just do not run 3rd party extensions to Vegas. Most are just gimmicks that you can do with the core plugins, or with proper compositing of source materials.

Applying windows updates continually helps keep your system more secure and less prone to malicious software.

[Aaron Star]

Windows 10 has much more background processes, that’s how things pop, suspend while not in use, and run things like the active start menu.

I have been running Win10 and vegas 13 for a very long time with out disabling Windows background services. You may have another issue that is creating problems.

I would make sure windows is fully updated, video drivers are specific to your device, google DPC latency and investigate issues with drivers on your system.