Norman Black
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If you click the Check GPU button on the sytem tab on unsupported GPUs for the Mainconcept AVC encoder it will still say OpenCL available. The encoder will still not use it. AMD Graphics core next, 7xxx and R8/R9 GPUs and later. A bit misleading.
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The amount/length of overlap between the two events.
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Some information about your source video files might help? A MediaInfo report would be nice.
The Vegas smart proxy is XDCAM EX and renders at max quality. Vegasaur can render smart proxies using whatever template you want and this can help. I have done this with GoPro 1080p60 source files in the past.
You CPU is plenty fast enough. Same one I have. I have only experimented with the Vegas multi-cam edit mode a little but 4 GoPro 1080p30 files, preview auto, was smooth. Turning thumbnailing off keeps things smooth when you make edit cut in multi-cam mode.
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In the folder “OFX Presets” in your My Documents folder.
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As stated tools like Avidemux can help. TMPGenc Smart renderer is another tool, but not free. There are probably others but I do not know about them.
If you want to take a large file a trim out one or more short pieces to separate files, use a trimming tool like Avidemux. Now you have the small pieces you want to edit in Vegas and/or Photoshop.
Avidemux only handles a limited number of file types. MP4 is your likely main output option here. No MOV option. Vegas only handles mpeg-2 and AVC/H.264 in MP4 files. I don’t know what codecs are in your MP4 and MOV files. You never mentioned.
MP4 and MOV can contain everything from lossy to lossless codecs. They are just generic containers.
Another workflow is to trim out the unwanted stuff and render those pieces out, from Vegas, to a high quality intermediate format like DNxHD, Cineform, XAVC. Use those pieces in your editing. Then going back and forth between Vegas and other tools you don’t have to worry about quality losses from re-encodes.
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You never mentioned what the specifics of your media file(s).
To quote the Vegas help file.
“Audio/video events are saved in a new AVI file. You can trim DV AVI, uncompressed AVI, and Sony YUV AVI files. Because of the lossy nature of other video formats, those video files will not be trimmed, but will simply be copied to the project folder.”https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/webhelp/vegaspro/13/ENU/index.htm#SaveAs.htm
Depending on your file specific there are tools out there that can trim LongGOP compressed files without re-encoding. The trims are restricted to I-frame boundaries.
Avidemux is one such tool and it is free.You can trim your large media and use those trimmed results in your NLE.
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It might help to know more specs of the files you are adding, but looking at the project media window details at least one of the audio files has four audio channels.
When multi track audio is added to the timeline it is added across tracks. Apparently always. Since the audio is getting new tracks the video comes along for the ride.
The only thing I can think you can try is to use Import rather than Open, and then add multiple files to the timeline with a right click and drag. You are then given the option to add across time or tracks. Vegas may still force across tracks.
At that point it comes down placing to one at a time.
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I should have qualified by statement to 1080 resolution. 720 can do 50/60p.
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If you are targeting Blu-ray, 29.97 NTSC interlaced is the top frame rate.
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154533
25fps PAL and 29.97fps NTSC tops.
50fps records can give you an ideal 2X SlowMo rate (25fps) at a 50fps record rate. If you are not going to do any SlowMo, the recording at a higher rate does not help, AFAIK when targeting Blu-Ray PAL. Same holds true for 60fps NTSC record and 30fps playback.
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In general LAME is better than all other mp3 encoders at all bitrates.
At 320Kbps, I doubt you will see any difference between Sony and LAME.
320Kbps is kind of a waste, IMO, if you are looking for acoustical transparency. As a compressed archive of sorts I guess it can make some sense.