[Neil Pollick]

That’s it!
Thank you

[Neil Pollick]

but it’s only one project that fails, generally rendering is just fine.

[Neil Pollick]

Gaming laptops are the ones that make good video editing machines

[Neil Pollick]

I thought I would add something even at this late date because this will be a useful thread to look at in the future. I had this problem and sorted it out using some old wisdom I gleaned off a forum somewhere.

The problem was the permissions settings of the Vegas installation folder in C:/Program Files.
I noticed that the owner was not the same as the owner for all the other programs stored in the Program Files folder.
I changed the ownership of the Sony Vegas installation folder to match the other program folders and after that I could drag and drop media from windows Explorer directly onto the vegas timeline.

You need to be logged on as an administrator then you go to the Sony Vegas folder in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86)
Right click on the folder then on “Properties”, then “security”, then “advanced” (near the bottom).
That brings you to a dialogue page with the optiop at the top to change the ownership of the folder.
In may case I changed it to “Administrators (KO7\Administrators)”, where KO7 is the name of my machine (when you press on the word “change” it will take you to a different dialogue page where you specify who the new owner is going to be)
Before you hit “apply” at the bottom, check the box “Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object” (this means all the folders and files inside the Sony Vegas directory will now have this new owner too).

Keep pressing OK to get out of it.
Next time you open Vegas you may well find you can drag and drop your files from Explorer right onto the timeline.

[Neil Pollick]

This is more what I would like to see for my projects

[Neil Pollick]

Here is a still from the uncorrected footage, using Technicolor’s recommended values in-camera values for saturation, contrast, color tone & sharpness.

Obviously increasing the contrast in post will just intensify this red/orange cast on the skin tones.
Maybe someone seeing this picture will recognize just what is happening

At the time of shooting I think I should have experimented with using different values for “color tone” settings in-camera but that will not help me now that the foootage is shot.
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I have just found a solution which involves Photoshop. I export a jpg image out of Vegas and open it up in Photoshop. I apply adjustment layer style changes to luminance and skin tones then export it out of Photoshop as a LUT file.
Anything that can be achieved using adjustment layers in photoshop can become part of the LUT, it gives you so much leeway.
I have a plugin in Vegas that allows me to apply LUTs to footage (VisionColor OFX LUT Plugin).
I know much more about color correcting in Photoshop than I do in Vegas so this is a good way for me to go.

I don’t suppose this will help other people who are reading this and hoping to find a solution using Vegas rather than Photoshop.
Perhaps people reading this would still be willing to share Vegas based solutions. A simple Vegas corrective would still be attractive to me.

I will be glad to share how the transfer between Vegas and PS is done and how you export LUTs in Photoshop, and how you can apply them to footage in Vegas. If anyone wants to know about that they should send me a message because this forum is not for Photoshop and it doesn’t seem right to go into that here. I will help you set up the workflow.

[Neil Pollick]

I think maybe this guy is just doing market research and is not a film maker

[Neil Pollick]

What format are your files in now may I ask? What camera/DSLR did they come out of?

[Neil Pollick]

After the system boots and has finished loading, with just the system and firewall and AV loaded
20% memory, CPU 0-1%, disk max 4%

With Vegas loaded and stable, without any project loaded
memory 23% (1.8gb), CPU 0-5%,disk 1-99% (swap file is on this drive)

Vegas with project fully loaded
memory 32-35%, cpu 1%, disk 0-3%

Previewing project (playing timeline in “Best-auto” quality)
CPU 1%-37% but mainly around 32%, Memory climbs slowly to about 80% (6.5gb) then playback fails, approx 5 mins.

Windows is not frozen and I can continue to edit in Vegas
System memory stays at mid 80% as long as Vegas is still open

After closing Vegas
Memory usage drops to 22%, CPU drops to 1/3%

System is i7, 8gb ram, 1TB hdd with 3 partitions. System has 2 video cards, Intel 4000 and Nvidia GTX 660M
Swap file is on a partition of the 1TB hdd, windows managed paging file is 8GB and is only set for this one partition . This partition has 200gb free space.
Vegas is on same HDD but different partition, i.e. the windows partition, which has 15GB free. Source videos being edited are on same partition as the 8gb swap file.
In preferences …..
1 – Vegas states “Dynmic Ram Preview Max Available:7034” and I have set the “Dynamic Ram Preview” at 5gb.
2 – “gpu accelertion of video processing” recognizes the Nvidia card.
3 – “Preview device” is set for “Windows Graphics Card” and “Optimize GPU display performance” is ticked

It seems clear that more system ram will allow for longer smooth playback.
I assume that the amount of memory assigned to “Dynamic Ram Preview” is not relevant for straightforward playback.

But is there a way to release the system ram that Vegas has co-opted, so that it returns to the level it was when the project first loaded, so that smooth playback can start again?

[Neil Pollick]

I’ve been testing and it seems best to go with the “HD 422 1920 1080-60i” option, it retains all the quality.
Working very well so far. I drag and drop the mov files straight onto the timeline, no more difficult than dragging and dropping into a regular video converter window.