[Norman Black]

I downloaded the file. Anything specific I should try?

I did try some things based on your comments and I have some comments.

60p video is always going to stress Vegas to its limits. 1080p60 the real problem. This stresses the video decoder and the decoder is always CPU only.

Even in a 30p project the 60p video is still fully decoded before they drop every other frame.

One of the videos was 1088. This adds an interpolation to the playback when your project is 1080. This is more overhead than pure 1080 footage. I noticed Vegas showing a different in the display of the 1088 footage in preview and good modes.

I noticed that the performance of a single track crossfade is much better than two events on separate tracks with events with a overlapping fade out/in. This makes some sense. Only one “effect” computing verses two effects.

I noticed the the Quicktime file, “from ATEM TVS.mp4” file was worse on crossfades than the other files. Playback rate really dropped on this one during a crossfade, whereas the others did not.

[Norman Black]

AFAIK, None of the online video services support 720p60. 30p always. You can upload 60p but they will all resample that to 30p.

[Norman Black]

I did not think Vimeo supported 60p.
https://vimeo.com/help/compression

[Norman Black]

[John Rofrano] “I too would love to hear from Vegas Pro editors with newer ATI cards because I have the older Radeon HD 5870 so I don’t know if the newer cards are significantly faster with Vegas Pro timeline playback. “

I have a 7950 card which should be the same perf as an R9 280. I’ll run and/or time anything.

[Norman Black]

iZotope Nectar elements and NewBlue Video Essentials 6 are separate downloads and installs if you purchased the full version. The “edit” version does not bundle them.

The Fxhome/HitFilm effects are installed via the Vegas installer.

The Loudness Meter, is under View, Window.

[Norman Black]

[Thomas Roberts] “Can you do this for Track Motion too? How can I copy and paste TRACK MOTION to other events?”

Track motion applies to track and not events. Yes, the lock envelopes to events will move track envelopes and keyframes within an even if you move/slide the event on the same track, but this is not the same thing.

Track motion has presets as well and you can save a preset and open it. Understand that track motion applies to a whole track and not to events so a preset would overwrite all track motion events on a track.

If you want to copy a set of track motion keyframes to another portion of the same track, then select the relevant keyframes and right click and select copy and then paste the keyframes in your new location. That should also work across tracks should you so desire.

[Norman Black]

You can copy your Pan/crop to other events by right clicking the event and selecting copy, and then right clicking the envent you want to copy to and use paste event attributes. This copies a lot of other things in addition to pan/crop. Other effects and the event properties.

You can save your pan/crop setting as a preset and then select that preset on other events. When I have copied specific effect properties or pan/crop I just use a preset I name “temp”.

[Norman Black]

[Mike Hinkel] ” For example if I want to preview a 10 second piece it is only previewing 3 or four seconds of it”

What is your project size, frame rate and bit depth and preview size. Quarter, Half, Full?
For a given amount of memory, Half can store 4 times the preview length of full. Quarter can store 16 times as much/long as full.

For me with preview RAM set to 1024, I can do 16-17 seconds with my preview at Auto/Half in a 1920×1080, 29.97 fps, 8-bit project.

[Norman Black]

[Jason Ed] “Thanks Norman. This is exactly what I’m trying to achieve. How did you get the object’s exact width to fit the screen? Thanks.”

In my VEG example I had a media generator at 720×1500. It does not matter what the width of your image is. You do the same thing.

You need to have the “Lock aspect ratio” button unselected. It is selected by default. It is third from the bottom, and you can just hover the mouse over it to see the tooltip pop up.

With that unchecked now you can make the width and height a different aspect ratio that the source image. You want your crop to have the same aspect as your project. You can do this visually.

Also uncheck the “size about center” button and simply drag the center bottom anchor point until you see it get to the size of your project in the preview window.

Now you have a crop at the top of the image. This is your first keyframe. Now create another keyframe at your desired time location, probably the end of the event, and move the crop to the bottom of the image.

Here is a screen shot where I did a pan from top to bottom of a digicam file which was much larger than my project at 1440×1080 4:3 square pixels. The screen shot shows the start position at the top. The second keyframe was at the bottom, and then I actually zoomed out to show the whole image. When zoomed out there were black bars on the sides since the aspect was different (much more rectangular).
panshot.jpg

[Norman Black]

I suppose this could happen if they crashed while saving the VEG file. In this scenario the BAK file should still be good.

If Vegas had the following logic it could mimic your report.

Rename current VEG to BAK.
Save VEG file.

If they crash during the save it would seem like they deleted the VEG file.

In contrast, another safer way to do this would be
Save VEG file to a temp file name.
If save successful, then rename current VEG to BAK.
Rename temp name to current VEG name.