[Roy Gregorio]

Thank you, btw for taking the time to tackle my misunderstanding.

“2) No. Not processing anything. Just DEFINING what is the white point and black point. Doesn’t change the underlying data in any way. “

I understand this part. The data itself doesn’t change.

What I’m confused about is if my monitor is already set to 16-235, meaning what I see is black at 16 and white at 235, will having my graphics setting (defaulted) at 16-235 double this effect? Meaning what I’m actually seeing is black at 32 and white at 215? I know the math doesn’t actually work that way, but that’s my example for simplicity.

If my monitor is already showing me 16-235, shouldn’t I have my graphics setting at full 0-255 to feed my monitor the “full” color space, which then my monitor will translate to 16-235?

[Roy Gregorio]

4) “Working in 32 bit is painful. At least edit in 8 bit then switch to 32 bit for colour work/ final render.”

I read this a lot, but don’t really understand why. Although, this is actually what I am doing (editing in 8bit and color grading in 32bit). What is the reason for needing to do this? If I’m going to render at 32 bit, why do I need to be editing at 8bit? If it’s a performance reason, I am not concerned about this.

“Just leave everything at 16-235”

I can follow this, but I just want to clarify my understanding.

If my monitor at rec. 709 is showing 16-235, will leaving my graphic settings at 16-235 create a duplicate effect of 16-235 and further limiting my color space? Or should I set it to full 0-255 since my monitor is displaying 16-235 anyway?

[Roy Gregorio]

This is very useful information. I’m by no means any expert in any of this (I sound a lot like you actually haha), but do you think maybe it’s your older version of Vegas Pro 13 that’s not optimized for using 16 cores? I know that Vegas Pro 15 hardware recommendation says to use 8 core processors for 4k video.

Whenever you get the chance, I’d also like to know if you’re able to crossfade two 4k clips together in best/full without stutter.

Regardless, it seems like it’s performing pretty well enough as is. Sigh, I’m tired of editing at 1fps. But this gives me hope. Please keep us updated.

[Roy Gregorio]

Following.

I just came across your post. I wanted to build this identical setup when deals on the 1950x came around on Black Friday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any videos proving I would get smooth 4k video preview on Sony Vegas Pro.

So are you now satisfied having unchecked “scale output to fit display?”

Are you still able to play best/full with multi layered projects with/without video effects?