[Frank Stevn]

Hi Danny, I tell you what I did:

In Vegas 9 PC (Vista) the MPG1 custom render presets are saved in this folder:

C:\Users\AleLaura_SM\AppData\Roaming\Sony\Render Templates\mpeg1-mc\

In Vegas 10 PC (Windows 7)the MPG1 custom render presets are saved in this folder:

C:\Users\Edditing\AppData\Roaming\Sony\Render Templates\mpeg1-mc

I copied the custom preset “A – Zone1 for 1280×720 (2 zones).sft2” created in Vegas 9 to the same MPG1 folder in Vegas 10, along with the custom presets created in Vegas 10.

Vegas 10 ‘sees’ the presets created in Vegas 10, but not the presets created in Vegas 9.

[Frank Stevn]

You are right Danny. The lack of a Render Preset manager is a problem.

I tried to copy the custom render presets from a PC with Vegas Pro 9 to a PC with Vegas 10. I copied the presets files in the same folder, but Vegas 10 won’t recognize them 🙁

[Frank Stevn]

I believe that if the disk performance degradation is the only cause of Vegas problems, and you fix it, then all your projects should work fine.

[Frank Stevn]

Use Windows Disk Defragmenter to pack the disk.

Backup the biggest files on your disk to another location.

Decide whether to delete the programs you don’t use anymore using the Control Panel’s “Add or Remove Programs utility.”

You may decide you just need a bigger drive. In that case a new hard disk is the thing to get

Search in internet “What happens when a hard drive gets full”

[Frank Stevn]

Maybe Silverlight is not the problem, considering that it is not running in the background all the time.

If you have not installed new software and not installed new hardware, maybe you should check for hard drive performance degradation.

Hard drive performance degradates with use. Check if you hard drive available space is less than 30%. Defragment it and check for disk errors.

Here are a couple of useful links:

https://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/optimize.aspx
https://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1056796.html

[Frank Stevn]

It seems that your PC is are out of resources.

Have you installed lately any application that is running in the background, changed the antivirus, or changed some hardware parts?

[Frank Stevn]

If all your project settings and render settings are HD you should get a final HD video.

Vegas doesn’t have mkv as container.

I don’t recommend to install any codecs in your pc. Vegas has a lot of options. It does support H.264.

You can use MPG2, Avi, QuickTime, … depending of how your video will be used.

You can check here about containers formtas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats

[Frank Stevn]

Add the media from your camera to Vegas time line. Right click on your media and check media properties.

Set your project properties settings as closed as possible to your media.

You shoudn’t use avi uncompressed for rendering.

You render in a compressed format with the settings as closed as possible to your media.

For example, try selecting MPG2 and HDV 1080-60i or AVI and HD 1080-60i

[Frank Stevn]

Try this one for photos: https://www.freeimages.co.uk/index.htm

and this one for Photoshop graphics: https://www.psdgraphics.com/

[Frank Stevn]

Thank you Julie.