[Matt Crowley]

The pixel aspect ratio should be 1.000 if you’re rendering to 1920×1080. Maybe you started with 1440×1080 video?

It looks like you have no compression (under Video Format) selected for this render, which will result in a huge output file. I don’t know which compression is best for HD Quicktime though… try MPEG4 or H.264 if it’s available.

[Matt Crowley]

Movie Studio HD 10 can use CUDA video cards for rendering AVC. You need an nVidia GeForce 9 series or later card (ie beefy recent gaming cards) to get any benefit though, and ATi cards are not supported at all. I have a GeForce 8800GT and it’s about the same speed as CPU-only AVC rendering on my Core2 duo E8400 (3GHz).

[Matt Crowley]

I’ve been hunting for a solution to this for Movie Studio HD 10. I finally started digging in the internal preferences (Shift+Click Preferences on the Options menu and click the Internal tab) and found the answer. This may well apply to Vegas Pro too…

In the Internal Prefs panel, look for eDefEnvAudioASRType (type “env” in the Show Only text box to narrow down the list). The default in VMS-HD 10 is 2, which means a fast log fade… why oh why did they pick this as the default for audio?

Change the value to your preference from the table below. I use smooth, which is the default for video and gives good-sounding audio fades in/out and constant-level crossfades.

2 = fast log
1 = linear
-2 = slow log
4 = smooth cubic
-4 = sharp cubic

eDefEnvVideoASRType is the corresponding setting for video track fades.

Hope this helps! It’s certainly saved me changing lots of fades manually…