[Philippe Gaudens]

Hello,

I moved from Vegas 13, to 14, to 15 (awaiting for 16), and I can tell you that MAGIX really improved the Vegas 15 engine !!
On the exactly same computer, real time play is far smoother ! Almost no more glitches…

They optimized the engine that now better use compute ressources from CPU and GPU…

I have bi-Xeon 12 cores (24 cores, 48 threads) and Vegas 14 was glitchy playing 1080p with just blur transitions or simple moving titles… I had to select “Preview half” to get things better… Sometimes I had to select Draft half !

With Vegas 15 I always select Best Full and it is smoother than ever! Not totally smooth, but far enough to preview.

Previous versions until Vegas 14 was limited to 16 rendering threads…

Vegas 15 handles all my CPU threads:

And I guess MAGIX also optimized the use of GPU ressources in Vegas… During realtime playing, My GPU load is about 25%… While previous versions was less than 10%

But I noticed that my CPU cores are pretty much loaded when I render… But real time playing with just transitions make the CPU load focused on 1 core, and a little bit on others…
I would say you’d better choose a CPU with high frequency (4Ghz) instead of chossing more cores…
It depends on what is the most important to you… Editing, or rendering ?

Best regards,
Philippe.

[Philippe Gaudens]

You can even use the Selection Edit Tool in combination with CTRL to drag over many slices at different places in your timeline…

[Philippe Gaudens]

Hello,

Why don’t you simply use the “Group” function ?

First, be sure the following option is enabled:

Then choose the Selection Edit Tool

Drag your selection over the slices you want, the press G to group the slices… Grouped events will be able to be modified, copied, pasted at the same time…

Best regards,
Philippe.

[Philippe Gaudens]

Hello,

I’ll try to share a 5DIII video.

I want to specify that playing back a 5DIII is not the problem. My problem is when I have FXs like blur transition (GPU optimized) or when I have a text event with moving shadow (also GPU optimized), it can’t play flawlessly at 30fps, it goes down to 5-6fps until the FX or the moving text is finished… Then it plays normally on a part of the footage with no FX.

With my dual-GPU card, I was able to select only one of the two GPUs, as it was two different cards.

With GPUMonitor, I can see that playback and FX calculation is handled by the GPU, but not really fluid.

[Philippe Gaudens]

Thank you for you answer John, but I just got the Titan Black 2 weeks ago, and I had GTX 590 (dual GPU) before and it was the same problem…

Here are the details for the footage coming from CANON 5D Mark III:

General
Complete name : I:\BJ2C1814.MOV
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
File size : 2.71 GiB
Duration : 4mn 56s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 78.4 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49
Tagged date : UTC 2013-01-13 23:27:17
©TSC : 30000
©TSZ : 1001

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 4mn 56s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 76.9 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.237
Stream size : 2.66 GiB (98%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49
Tagged date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : sowt
Duration : 4mn 56s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 54.3 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49
Tagged date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49

Other
ID : 3
Type : Time code
Format : QuickTime TC
Duration : 4mn 56s
Time code of first frame : 09:12:10;08
Time code settings : Striped
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49
Tagged date : UTC 2013-01-12 22:28:49
Bit rate mode : CBR

[Philippe Gaudens]

I edit videos from CANON 5D markIII

[Philippe Gaudens]

I already give my material… But I can be more precise.

2 x 30″ displays
Working on SSD
Sony Vegas Pro 12

My project settings are:
Full HD 1920*1080 24fps
progressive scan
Square
no rotation
Stereoscopic 3D: Off
Pixel format 8
Full-res rendering quality: Best
Motion blur type: Gaussian
Deinterlace: none

Do you need more information I could have forget ?