[Rick Anvican]

Hi Andreas,

DTS would have been my choice too but my client’s hardware does
not support DTS bitstream output, space is not an issue but
compatibility matters, I know PCM on DVD-Video is possible up
to 6 channels @ 6144 kbps, but apparently this spec is hardly
supported whereas PCM 2 channel is more common.

Thanks.

[Rick Anvican]

Thanks for your method, Edward.
I had Titler Pro installed with both DirectX and OpenFX both Sony Vegas 64bit, saved templates are in C:\Program Files\NewBlue\Titler Pro.

[Rick Anvican]

We don’t expect everybody’s computer or workstation that runs Vegas to have the same programs and codecs installed, although it’s been found that Vegas 12 is a lot more stable when dealing with codec packs, they may cause problems for some systems, like being unable to import certain formats or a broken/glitchy preview, I’m not suggesting that you should uninstall it, but this thread has some findings by other members if you’re interested: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/963924

[Rick Anvican]

Like what Bob said, the preview is a tradeoff between framerate and quality, in real-time previewing you can’t have both with limited resources.
Vegas should be able to read AVC files from cameras fine, editing YouTube videos would not be ideal – they’re more compressed than the files from your cameras and can make Vegas glitch. You’re not using codec packs, right?

[Rick Anvican]

Hi Cosmin,
The AVC video codec is a lossy inter-frame format designed for delivery purposes, meaning that it compresses video in that in a group of pictures (GOP), the 1st frame is a full image while frames that follow are predicted based on the 1st frame, therefore requiring calculation of differences to create those predicted frames.
Vegas tends to show artefacts like macroblocking and banding in Preview|Full when using AVC because of the lower accuracy needed to calculate frames. Importing the lossless version means that Vegas does not need to recreate prediction frames because the codec you’re using is likely an intra-frame codec like Lagarith, which are suitable for editing purposes as they compress with each frame being full images, so this should lighten up the load for previewing in Good|Full.

Vegas could edit AVC video but it doesn’t mean that it is the most compatible format, you’re more likely to encounter problems with sources using interframe codecs(e.g. AVC, MPEG2) than intraframe codecs (e.g. DV-AVI, Lagarith), hope this helps,

RickAVC

[Rick Anvican]

Hi John, Norman,
I’ve emailed Newblue support and they have replied with Norman your solution,
I actually didn’t notice the file menu at the top until now, anyway thanks guys
for helping out,

RickAVC

[Rick Anvican]

Hi John,
I did save 2 presets with the DirectX version, though they didn’t seem to show up in the OFX version, I could reinstall the DirectX version, access it through Vegas 11 and save the presets from the corresponding projects, but I’m not sure if just copying the saved preset XMLs is as simple as it gets…

Thanks for the suggestion John,
RickAVC

[Rick Anvican]

[Rudy Berman] “I have even reinstalled the program and still nothing.”

Did you at least restart inbetween uninstall and reinstall? How are the other windows(e.g. Track Motion, Render As) looking like?

Do all event FX windows look like the one in your uploaded image (where there are the tabs Parameters and Custom) or do they vary – like are some of them empty or have other tabs?

Check if you have the latest .NET Framework installed (v4.5), if you have previous versions of the .NET Framework (e.g. v2, v3) installed then leave them installed as they might be depended on older apps.

When I used an earlier build of Vegas 11, timeline GPU acceleration made my Video Event FX windows empty, so I disabled it and it worked. I highly doubt this, but you might want to try disable GPUA? (Options–>Preferences–>Video(tab)–>GPU Acceleration of video processing(set to OFF))

[Rick Anvican]

Hi Rudy,

the Video Event FX looks like you’re using Sony Color Corrector and the Event Pan/Crop tool + plugin chain is missing, does this happen to all video event FX windows? What about transitions and media generators?

Has it been like this since you started Vegas for the first time?

Also, what build of Vegas are you using? Latest is b770 which has been very stable for me.

RickAVC

[Rick Anvican]

Hi Chris,
I’ve seen the COM Surrogate crash with dllhost.dll as fault module at the splash screen when I started up Vegas 10e on my old WinXP system after upgrading from SP2–>SP3, I had an older version of the Cineform codec installed but it wasn’t the culprit, went through a reinstall of Vegas without uninstalling and it worked fine, just going through the checklist:

• Could you render to any format at all or is it just affecting the GoPro codec?
• Could you start up GoPro Studio Edit and get a source video converted there?
• Have you checked if your Windows OS’ files are not corrupt?

(I’m just going through from what I remember when I had COM Surrogate crashing Vegas)

COM Surrogate is largely related to thumbnail extraction in Windows Explorer but it acts as a sacrifice when thumbnail previews are corrupted so that Explorer doesn’t crash, although it tends to bring down Sony Vegas and other media apps too, possibly due to codec conflicts.
Hope you find the problem,

RickAVC