Norman Black
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When you click on an event, the whole event is selected. In your screen shot I see one audio event, which is takes the whole timeline view you give in your screen shot.
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You did not give any specifics so I created a VEG file and ran tests on my machine. Here is the file.
7608_perftest.zipThis was done at Good Full and with disable resample turned OFF. The project is 1920x1080p29.97.
The file encoded by Quicktime, From ATEM TVS.mp4, has performance problems with the Vegas decoder. Nothing works very well with that one.
With the others, everything was smooth with GPU and CPU with crossfades and separate overlapped track fade out/in.
With CPU only the cross fades are still smooth, but the overlapped track fades slowed down.
My machine
core i7 4770K, 4Ghz
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One problem with lowering the priority of an encode is screen savers. If you actually walk away and the screen saver kicks in it will likely steal CPU cycles from the encode. Screen savers tend to run at normal priority.
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If you are looking to use your PC while it it rendering there are two things you can do.
Set the number of render threads in video prefs to some amount less than the number of cores (or logical CPUs).
Or better yet. Open the task manager and find the Vegas process and right click and set its priority to Below Normal. Vegas 13 is vegas130.exe in the task manager. Vegas 12 vegas120.exe.
With the priority below normal, then when you are doing something on the PC it will get priority for CPU cycles. When you are not doing anything, then the render will get full CPU cycles. Even when you are doing something the background process can get full CPU cycles because e.g. when you are browsing and reading something, nothing is really going on.
This Below normal priority thing is typically how external encoders default. Handbrake is an example.
Too bad Vegas does not give us a preference for encoding priority, but it is easy enough to do.
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[Jackie Luffy] “29.97 is the highest setting it gives me”
Only certain values are in the drop down, but you can enter any value you want for the frame rate.
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[Jean-Pierre Desrochers] “I don’t think its a native H.264 format..
In fact, when I downloaded it, it came out in MP4 format.
Is-it the same as H.264 ?”Youtube videos are AVC/H.264.
MP4 is a file format and not a video format. An MP4 file can contain most any video codec format.
The free MediaInfo utility can give you information on any video file contents. -
A year ago when I made the move my MS12 project(s) did open in VP12.
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MP4 is a file format and not a video codec. That said there are only a few codecs in Vegas that smart render. You are probably using one of them that does not smart render.
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[Scott Francis] “What GPU card are you using and what are your result per file?”
AMD 7950. What exactly do you want me to try. Benchmarking is no good without precision. Best thing would be to upload a VEG file with the things you would like tested/benchmarked. I already have the video files.
And remember that GPU is only once part of editing. Without strong effect use, probably a smaller one.
[Scott Francis] “Which file was 1088?”
Converted From ATEM TVS.m2ts[Scott Francis] “Also, I have no option when using multiple cameras, I HAVE to have them on multiple tracks, I need to see what each has when choosing what to use.”
I don’t know about older version of Vegas but Version 12 and on has a multi-cam editing feature which is quite nice. I only used it once. Very easy once you have the cameras sync’d.
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/cutting_with_the_vegas_pro_multi-camera_editing_toolsJohn can talk to you about VASST infinityCam and Ultimate S utilities.
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Many DSLRs have a live HDMI output. You would need an HDMI capture input on your computer and software that can record from HDMI.
Read the Vegas Help topic
Capturing Video
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Capturing from an SDI card (which talks a little about HDMI)