Vegas 13 did not fully utilise multiple CPUs nor did it do GPU rendering. If you have a modern CPU/GPU you should definitely see a significant improvement on render speed. I am still using Vegas 16 and noticed landmark improvements to all previous versions with regard to render speed on current technology PC hardware.

There is no right answer to your question. There is always going to be trade-off between quality and filesize, no matter what you do. It is all a function of the data rate. This was even the case with DVD production, however, unlike DVD production where the data rate had a top limit and the video size also had a top limit, current distribution…

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Hi Luigi,

DVD footage does not have square pixels. To get the aspect ratio correct, you have set up a few things correctly.

1. Set your project settings up to match your target video aspect, pixel size and frame rate.

2. When you import media select the cropping icon on the timeline and look at the positioning of the footage within the frame. By…

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Hi Andy,

Time and time again, people have questions regarding mp4 conversion and fail to give any details of the CODEC contained within the mp4 container. Unfortunately, the container has very little bearing on what to do to fix your problem. It could just has easily have been an m4v, mkv, mov, avi container and the answer would be the…

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They should both give you the same finished product. The MainConcept one is “older” as it was the one shipped with Sony Vegas many years ago, but as far as I am aware, no development is being done on this renderer by Magix. The Magix one is the one to use if you want to be sure that you get the best rendering performance with current hardware.

Hi Alex,

There is no right answer to your question. “Mobile” has changed so much over the years in both the ability for people to download at high speed and the also the screen resolution and computing power of mobile devices.

I originally, encoded videos with a specification that would make them play well even with very low powered smart phones.…

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The most common misunderstanding that people have is that MP4 is a container format and it can contain video and audio with different codecs. There are two reasons why your settings above are unlikely to work for many people.

Vegas offers you h264 = AVC, or h265 = HEVC codecs. The later is very new and not supported on many devices yet. So I…

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I use iZotope RX too. It has saved my bacon on so many occasions when field recording in hostile (noisy) environments. It’s worth every cent. Also, I never use the noise gate for any projects. Having audio which just disappears completely sounds almost as terrible as the noise itself!

Firstly, I don’t work for Magix, nor am I running VP18, so take my advice with a grain of salt. I have, however, been using Vegas Pro commercially for a very long time and thought I would share some tips which should help you to decide on what is going on here.

Vegas uses the GPU/s in one of four ways.

1. Dynamic RAM preview
2. Rendering to the…

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Hi Jono,

While I cannot tell you which way to go with your particular hardware, I can tell you what I have found with choosing the what to use. I have a machine which has Intel i9-9920X and 3 x Nvidia Quadro P4000 CPUs. I chose this hardware configuration because I use both Vegas Pro (for video) and Redshift (for 3D animation) in my daily work.…

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