[Norman Black]

Setting your project as 1080 or 720 and letting Vegas resize the other footage is pretty simple and as long as you set the render setting to best then the resize interpolation will be the highest quality.

You say your 720p60 footage is for slowmo. How slow have you gone. If your project is set to 24p (probably 23.976) then slowing the 60p footage down to .4 actually gives a perfect slowmo in a 24p project. Any slowmo down to .4 is about ideal since the 60p has enough extra frames for Vegas to use. You can go slower but the results will not be as ideal. Typically you want to disable resampling for frame rate changes since the Vegas resampler is not very good.

In some sense it sounds like your project should be 1080, 24/23.976 which is your normal speed footage.

Also if you want to use the 60p footage at normal speed, in a 24p project, you probably still want to disable resampling.

[Norman Black]

By 24p do you mean 24 frames per second?
By 720p do you mean 1280×720 resolution?
Is all your footage 720 resolution or just “half”?
Is all your footage 24p or just “half”?

[Norman Black]

[John Rofrano] “Muted tracks are fine. No need to remove them. When a track is muted, Vegas Pro skips over it.”

Thanks for the confirmation of that. Often I have a “scratch” track where I may move things to while tweaking. I usually have that track muted. It is usually completely “covered” and so technically does not need to be muted to not contribute, but I figured muting would help performance and better safe than sorry.

[Norman Black]

Did you import them as images, or as an image sequence?
When importing an image sequence you select the first image of the sequence and click the check box telling Vegas to import a sequence.

Are all the images sequentially numbered like when Vegas exports an image sequence?

[Norman Black]

Make sure the render as filter options are all cleared.

[Norman Black]

Here is a previous thread.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/976342

I don’t bother with WMV stuff, but I tried entering 3840×2160 and it is limited to 2048 in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Does WMV even support 4k in general? It does not in Vegas.

Uncompressed can do 4k
XAVC and XAVC-S do 4k
Sony and Mainconcept AVC can do 4k via custom entered frame dimensions. Sony AVC may not be the best candidate since it’s bitrate tops out at 26Mbps.
Cineform can do 4k, if you have the premium version of GoPro studio.

[Norman Black]

[Rick Anvican] “might install Vegas 12 first then the plugins and see how that goes…
“

If you have installed the OFX versions of the plug-ins they might just show up in Vegas 12. No need to install.

OFX plug-ins are installed into a common folder independent of the application VP11 or VP12 folders. At least all my NewBlue OFX plugs-ins are installed this way.(\program files\common files\ofx\plugins)
They automatically showed up in Movie studio when I still had MS12 installed.

[Norman Black]

You can put a computer to studio levels fx on individual events but it is probably easier to put it on specific media as needed as a media fx. If you have one event or a hundred from the media they all get the same adjustment.

As for your other camera AVCHD footage, does that need an adjustment or is it studio levels already. Be aware that many video cameras that supposedly capture studio video levels actually capture a 16-255 range. You may not care if highs get clipped. Most of the time people online with levels issues are complaining about crushed darks and not the lights.

I suggest a timeline of consistent video levels. If your final encodes need to be studio levels then get everything on the timeline in studio. For the DSLR that has been discussed.

It is just as valid to edit full range and then adjust for your encodes. There is more than one way to go about this. It seems more common to get the video into video levels and then make adjustments for the monitor as necessary for edit playback.

To grade in the preview window, I would grade with the studio to computer levels on the output fx adjustment in place. The video preview window is not accurate unless it gets full range data. The only time that fx comes off is to render your output file.

[Norman Black]

[marty watt] “What happens to the quality of a video – Facebook upload or not – when the framerate is increased?”

Depending on the quality of resampling, nothing to a little blurry due to blended frames.

I doubt they will bump the frame rate up so long as it is below 30.

At this link
https://www.facebook.com/help/videos

in the how do I optimize my video section, Facebook states
“Keep the frame rate of your video at, or below, 30fps”

[Norman Black]

[Chris Morley] “1) Use 32 bit projects instead of 8 bit.”

Should not be necessary. Mathematically there could be gain, but I doubt it is worth the effort. As previously stated, determining what gain there might be is above my pay grade.

Also, remember that your final encode destination is likely an 8-bit studio video levels format.

You can always switch back and forth between 8 and 32-bit project properties at will. Edit in 8 and grade and render in 32-bit.

[Chris Morley] “2) Apply a Sony Levels preset (or tweak manually). “

With Canon DSLR footage you will need this to get to studio video levels.

If you apply this to your media/track/events then the preview window will look a little flatter in contrast, just like with your Cineform AVI files which are in studio levels. You are displaying 16-235 video on a 0-255 monitor.

If you have a secondary preview device the video prefs have an option for that to apply a studio to computer levels adjust for that specific display device.

For the video preview window, we sadly do not have that option so we typically put a studio to computer levels adjust on the output fx while editing and take it off when rendering.

I recently came across a utility to automate this process for me.
https://vegasvideo.de/extension-previewlevels-en.html

Understand that video players on PCs normally take 16-235 video and expand that to 0-255 for display on computer monitors.