Nick White
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What system are you using? Vegas is pretty heavy on resources. Also, what other processes are running? If you can kill any networking and anti-virus etc while working, that can help. RAM also helps. Having no other programmes running etc etc.
I am no Vegas expert :D, but I may be able to help. Maybe ease the load for those more knowing. And hey I am waiting on a render. Course if I get it wrong…..
I am assuming you are talking about problems while editing / previewing, and not after rendering?
OK. Deep breath.
IME, it’s not the input media that count, and any prior conversion of that could well lose you Image Quality. What is most important in editing is the Project Properties. These need to be set to a Width, Height and Frame Rate that your PC can handle while editing. Then you need to choose a Video Preview Quality in the Video Preview Pane to best show the video as you play through it while editing. Actually, Vegas will, by default, choose over the top of that anyway, in an effort to stop stuttering, especially during multi-track portions or fading from one clip to another.
It depends on the size that you Preview at, but if you are having real trouble, a 640*360 choice will be easier for Vegas to work with then say, 1920*1080, at a higher Preview Quality. After much mucking about, I have found that it’s a matter of juggling Project Properties to get the Preview quality (resolution) and Project quality (resolution) as close as possible, then using a better setting (Preview / Good etc) in the Preview window. So set your Project Properties lower and lower until Preview resolution on the Good (Auto) setting is pretty much the same as your project settings, while minimising stuttering.
There is also an option in Project Properties to Adjust Source Media. Help is not clear about whether this will actually affect a rendered output, but it does imply that this can help. However it does crop media to fit the preview screen (I assume) and that to me is dangerous. However….
If I answered the wrong question, sorry. I hope my info is _correct_ and it may help somebody else 😀
Nick
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Just to clarify, I want several screens of text, so to speak. So, able to scroll for some considerable time, with the total scroll far bigger than the height of the screen. Like credits only just a single column of text.
I can do one screen using Track Pan zoom , or Event Pan Zoom, but that only allows for writing that fits the screen height. I suppose I could place several events, using each to scroll only what it could contain, but that could get messy.
Nick
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Oh good. It’s not just me. It was quite confusing. I had learned of this way back, but I am just getting back into Vegas after a bit of a hiatus.
Nick
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I do not know about anyone else, but I tried to watch the samples and they would not play. I even copied the url and went to YT, and the page would not load. I tried random videos on YT and they were fine.
However, try selecting a clip and right click/Switches. Then Set Smart Resample o Disable Resample. If that works, select all video clips at once and do the same.
Nick
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Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I have only got “render Loop region only” as a choice. The letterbox was right under that in 11 and now it’s not. I have tried using both make a movie and Project Render As.
Nick
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Thank you.
Seems to me that if you have half a brain you can work out for yourself what quality to use and still get a good preview. IT’s also a well-hidden option!
Ah well. Thank you.
Nick
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I use Vegas’s interface, but render uncompressed and then use another programme to render to mp4.
I do find Vegas’s offerings confusing and frustrating. There are dozens of them, but all are restrictive/not the best. Many do not let you make your own choices, and those that do are not using the best coders, so you get sub-par results, or stuff that looks bad in WMP or WMC. IME some fail completely. Sony YUV for instance has given me only Audio on several computers and OSs, from Xp to Win 7 64. it simply should not be there….but hey it’s Sony.
I also render interlaced, then let “that other programme” go to progressive and take care of interlacing. Why? Because Vegas has that charming “smart resample” ….thing. Other renderers do not. So I don’t have to remember to kill it with every new project and clip that I add.
So. What I find with Vegas is that it offers a lot of choices, which are confusing to start with. Then it tries to make those choices “simplified” by only offering certain parameters, the “match” that choice. That just adds to the frustration, because you end up with letterboxing, pixellation, blurring…..it’s the Smart Resample thing all over again.
They are trying to stop you having to learn, but there is is no toothpaste answer, and so many people end up confused, or making crappy videos and wondering why.
Nick
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AH. Right. Thanks. Sorry about that. I thought online help was maybe a Web based thing.
I did not notice the top of the page where it qualifies the limitations.
hmm…so you can’t control the listening volume when you are ….Previewing…the video as you edit. ??…except with the Windows master volume control. Sorry. that’s not your doing and thank you for the help.
Nick
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Try setting the Project properties to a lower resolution.. Lower resolution allows better preview, although obviously if you preview in a full screen, there will be a compromise point.
_AS FAR AS I KNOW_, from trial and error and reading, the Project Properties do not affect the actual render…._IF_ you don’t just let Vegas do its own thing, and instead use your own resolutions and quality settings when rendering. I _think_ some of the automatic render setups will use the Project Properties as a basis. I have never used them to know. I have read intimations that the Project properties _do_ affect the output, but I have never seen it, and nobody has actually told exactly how.
Now _there_ is an invitation….:D
Nick
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Without seeing the actual problem, I will take a stab.
Check the Switches for a video clip (right click then Switches). There are options for Smart resample, Force resample and Disable resample. Smart resample may well be the culprit. To get rid of it select all the video clips in your project, then do as above and disable resample. If this is the cause, you will have to do this with every project. Choose a short section and render to your hard disk, making sure you render Progressive, not interlaced. Save the project.
AFAIK smart resample was an attempt to _smooth_ progressive output, which has a tendency to shudder. It seems to just make it look worse. However it’s the default. So you just have to do that each project.
Nick
Head: Hertz Music