[George Dean]

Hi Tyson,

I’ll reply to part of your questions…..

I do have Quicktime installed, as I need it for making various test.

VP15 and VP16 will read ProRes without Quicktime installed but it will not read all QT files, so if you need it, best to keep it installed. It’s 32 bit, so not the best, and Apple has stopped support, and there is a warning out that the player may have a security leak. To avoid the security risk, just never use the player for untrusted media. The biggest drawback of the 32 bit, to my knowledge, is the restriction that most users can not load more than about 40 clips and then their system does strange things like locking up. There are some ways to get around this.

I think there are a couple other formats you can use for alpha, but off the top of my head I don’t know as I don’t need to render alpha.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Renato, perhaps you can provide a step-by-step of what you do and when you get the freeze.

Regardless of VP16, VP15, or VP13, when I do a snapshot it is pretty much instant that it writes and saves the file and the thumbnail appears in the Project Media bin. That’s the same whether I have no timeline thumbnails, head only, head, center, tail, or All showing.

However, years a ago when I was on a duo-quad processors, I would get a few seconds delay in the time it took to write and save a snapshot and during that time Vegas would be waiting for that process to complete before it would go on. That was a delay not a freeze. Once the thumbnail for the snapshot appear Vegas would continue. That might also be the same on a large or complex project on some systems.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Renato,

This is strange indeed. I cannot duplicate this in Vegas Pro 16. Do the thumbnails reload in a fresh new project from the once time, or does it take many snapshots before the thumbnails start to reload/repaint? I only made about 25 snapshots, if it takes more than that before you see this behavior than I will test with more, otherwise my systems is not behaving the same as yours. Also, I just updated Vegas Pro 16 to the latest build 424. Is this behavior in VP15 and/or VP16?

This behavior sounds like perhaps the cached application data is causing a problem, did you do a full reset as I asked in a previous reply?
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I would start with the simplest fix first with a full program reset, hold down ‘Ctrl+Shift’ keys, while you double left click on the Vegas Pro desktop shortcut. A small window will appear. Check the box ‘Delete all cached application data’, then left click on ‘Yes’. This will reset Vegas Pro to it’s original installation settings and delete the pesky cached application data that will sometimes make Vegas do strange things.
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You can load the Windows Task Manager and monitor the CPU and RAM usage. It may be helpful for you to monitor this as you proceed with another test.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Carlos, sounds like you have optimized your space and have a great setup.

As for Game of Thrones, Thank You for the information, which was way more than I needed or wanted, but I can appreciate that others may like that type of TV series, just not my thing.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Carlos,

I think perhaps I live in a different world, I have no idea what “Game of Thrones” is, other than maybe like in the title it is a computer game!

As for tuning your TV and DLP, does this link help: https://www.pcmag.com/article/180698/how-to-calibrate-your-tv

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Jim,

If you upload a small sample some place that I can access, I would be happy to test it in 16b1. Something smaler than 50 mb, please.

As Marc post, the beta version I’m on is not stable enough for production work (although I have had very few issues, so far), but I don’t think it would be fine for testing your iPhone source.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Carlos @ “BTW, I project a 4.50 meter wide by 3.00 meter high screen size, directly on the wall, so I can see detail quite well. ”

I used to have a DLP I projected on a pull down screen 92″ wide screen. It was massive and I liked it, but in reality it was much too large for the room and was only viewable at night as I could not darken the room enough during daylight hours. When we remodeled, I went to the 60″ flat TV and actually like it a bit better. But would rather have a few more inches of viewing. Maybe it the old eyes, maybe not, I just have always liked large screens!

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Jim,

I’m on 16b1 studio, and have mp4/h264 (native and AMD) and Quicktime/h264. I’m on Windows, and never looked at the free version, this probably doesn’t help.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Carlos,

You can always get help here, the forum is for helping others, sharing tricks and sharing techniques. Not so much for tutorials, but some step-by-steps and how-to’s are always available from members who wish to participate.

I think it is best not to post any part of a commercial product unless you can provide absolute proof that you have the copyrights or the material is public domain. To be safe I like to avoid any precieved conflict.

In Vegas Pro 15 you have the Smart Upscale FX, which includes a slider for the strength of upscale, as well as noise reduction. You also have the Sharpen FX if used sparingly may be useful. If it were me, I would first apply the Smart Upscale, then render out using a visually lossless codec such as DNxHD, Cineform, Magic YUV, or perhaps Magix Intermediate. Then use that as a master source and apply the Sharpen and color fx’s. Beyond those, if you are going to view these videos on a rather recent smart flat panel TV, they are quite amazing at upscaling. I took your sample still, rendered it out to 720p and displayed it on my 60 inch Sony TV and it looked much better than when I view it full screen on my desktop monitor.

In classic Hollywood productions they had excellent glass, many still used today and many far superior to some lens used today. They captured on 70mm emulsion which is far superior to our 4K of today. But similar to how today when we render multiple times we lose resolution and detail, some was lost when they shot secondary master and then more was lost when they printed for distribution in 35mm. Many of the old classic that have been digitized and available on DVD were done from a 35mm distribution print, and the poor quality was due tot he budget they had for restoration.

I had a Canon lens on an XL2 SD camera that could record detail as good as the lens I have for my Panasonic 4K camera, but they were still SD level tape recordings that needed to be digitized before they could be enlarged to HD and then the lack quality started to show. In your case, you not only have Standard Definition originals, but they are also from a DVD, and MPEG-2 pretty much kills the quality. It looked good at the time because we were willing to take a hit going from theater viewing to viewing at home. In comparison to FHD and 4K in our home the SD is quite the letdown. Often worth it if the story is good, but other than that, it is pretty much a labor of love to get SD to something that looks goof enough for us to enjoy on our home big screens. Just my opinion of course.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Gennady,

Match your Project Property Width and Height (frame size) to that of your source media. Also match that with the Frame Size in your render template. You will need to select Custom Frame Size and set the Width and Height to match you Project Properties and Source Media.

Best Regards……George