[Bob Wills]

I have not. Might give that a try since I’m not having much luck anywhere else. Appreciate the advice.

[Bob Wills]

These legacy settings. Are you able to preview to a non primary set monitor without having to have one or both of these checked off in Vegas 18 or 19?

If you are then that would at least answer my question of if it’s even possible in the first place.

Using these settings allows me to preview onto my non primary monitor in Vegas 18 but I am not able to render using my video card, and some 10 bit files aren’t supported because it’s using Vegas’s old system. I would like to avoid all of this if possible so I can render with my GPU and use Nvenc for previewing.

[Bob Wills]

Are you able to view the preview onto your non primary monitor without using the legacy settings? My issue is kind of a two parter. Ideally I’d like to find a solution where I don’t have to use any of these weird settings at all as they have side effects and I would like to use the new features.

So far I’ve tried turning GPU Accel on and off, I tried turning the legacy settings on and off. Both with and without GPU Accel on. I tried turning the GPU settings off in the preview device settings. I also tried resetting Vegas’s cache a few times as well as uninstalling and reinstalling a couple times. I even updated my Nvidia Drivers and no luck.

[Bob Wills]

Anyone happen to have that preset still? I know this post is from a few years back but I started a project with it a few years ago and never saved the dang files. Red Giant got rid of their People domain and Nick himself said he doesn’t have it anymore.

[Bob Wills]

I believe it is the same issue that this guy was having. Although none of the things they brought up seemed to fix it for me. https://community.adobe.com/t5/After-Effects/No-preview-in-the-composition-window/td-p/9415148

[Bob Wills]

[Bob Wills]

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[Bob Wills]

It’s actually really weird. I have a 3 second fade out and then a 3 second fade in. With GPU Accel on the fade in starts dark and fades in smooth and quickly. In the rendered video the fade in is slower and feels delayed. With GPU Accel off the fade in seems like it starts off as bright white instead of black but it also fades in smoothly. The rendered video from that also fades in brighter but is still some what delayed in comparison.

[Bob Wills]

No I don’t see that in there. There is an improvement with GPU Acceleration off. I wouldn’t say it entirely fixed the problem but it is an improvement. Like I said I think GPU Accel is making the video darker which in turn means the fade is darker so it makes it appear as though its a slower transition.

[Bob Wills]

Thanks for replying. I’m running Windows 7 with a GTX 1080 and an i7 4790k. Vegas 16 Build 361. After I turned off GPU Acceleration I am noticing that it seems to have fixed some of the issue. The fade out isn’t nearly as dark as it was and instead seems brighter. Not entirely sure why that is.

What’s the difference between using GPU Acceleration and choosing the Nvidia Codec? Also what would be the significance of using only 1 thread? I’d like to get a solid understanding of what each of these do so I can figure out the best set up for me.