[Wayne Waag]

Are you saying the clip I made about watches plays fine?

Yes. Just tried it again. Plays fine. The voice is very good. No music.

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[Wayne Waag]

What are your current project settings?
A picture of it:

Your project settings are part of the problem. GoPro 1080 60P footage is progressive, not interlaced. Moreover, you are using NTSC settings. Presumably, you are in PAL land? In any case, make sure that your project settings are the same as your GoPro footage.

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[Wayne Waag]

What camera is it from?
-Go Pro Hero Black 4

Are you running the latest version of Vegas, 4.53? There was a fix for GoPro footage on this release.

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[Wayne Waag]

How would I go about finding what the aspect ratio of each are?

Simply divide the number of pixels in the horizontal by the number of pixels in the vertical. If you divide 1920 by 1080, 1280 by 720, and 16 by 9, you’ll get the same number.

Is there a way to edit aspect ratios?

You don’t edit an aspect ratio. You can change it by simply cropping your image, making sure that “maintain aspect ratio” is set to “no”, if you use the Vegas pan/crop Fx.

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[Wayne Waag]

Both your video have the same picture aspect ratio, 16:9. That is the reason that one will completely cover the other. The actual pixel sizes don’t matter–only the aspect ratio. If you really want to do this, then place the video on a track above the picture and reduce its size using pan/crop. Then the picture will show around its borders.

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[Wayne Waag]

I noticed that my CPU almost reach 100%, while previewing a 1080P 60 FPS Video without any effects or other videos.

That is definitely not right. I have an old i7-3770K that’s overclocked a bit (4.2 Ghz) and a very weak video card (Nvidia 650) and it previews 1080 60P video on a second monitor at Best full without dropping frames with CPU at less than 50%. My suspicion is that your video card is not set up properly. I would check to see if the latest drivers are installed. Unfortunately, I’m no hardware expert. Hopefully, someone else can provided some assistance.

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[Wayne Waag]

[Jay]

Glad you finally have it sorted out.

[Aleksey]

That was a very useful tip about the renaming of regions, something I didn’t know about–I’m sure because I’ve never had a need to do it, right (LOL). I’m always somewhat amazed about the depth of Vegasaur with its many intricacies. The thing I enjoy most about participating here is that I learn something useful most everyday.

That said, I do wish that Vegasaur had an option for padding its numbers.

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[Wayne Waag]

A proxy is simply a copy of your original source material, but rendered at a lower resolution. For example, you can create an HD proxy (1920×1080) from your original 4K (3840×2160) files. Your computer can preview the HD proxy much better than the original 4K files. Once the proxy is created, you replace the original 4K file with the HD proxy file and do your editing. Once finished with editing, you simply replace the proxy file with the original 4K footage and do your render.

This can be done automatically inside of Vegas. From your project window, select your 4K files, right-click, and select Create Video Proxy. Once your proxy files are created, Vegas will use the proxy files if you preview using the Draft or Preview settings. If you use Good or Best, it will use the original material. For renders, it will use the original 4K material. The good thing about using the Vegas proxy builder is that it is all automatic.

Vegasaur is a script application for Vegas. https://vegasaur.com/ It is an extremely useful add-on that includes a proxy-builder. While Vegas is completely automatic, Vegasaur allows you to select whatever render template you want to use for your proxy. Of the two, my preference is to use Vegasaur because of its ability to allow you to choose the template you want. You can even create your own render template inside of Vegas and then use it when building proxies using Vegasaur.

By creating your own, I mean that you can render your 4K file to an intermediate that will preview well on your system, for example using one of the XDCAM EX templates. Once rendered, you can manually replace your 4K files with the XDCAM EX files and do your editing. Once editing is completed, you would manually replace the proxy files with the original 4K files. It’s the same principle, except that you do the changing from original to proxy by manually replacing the files inside of Vegas. Nothing is done automatically.

Hope this brief explanation will be of use to you. Perhaps someone who is currently using proxies for 4K projects will chime in with their recommendations.

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[Wayne Waag]

If preview performance is that important to you, then use a proxy. Vegas has an option to automatically create proxies for 4K source material. You could also use Vegasaur or just create your own using a format that previews well on your system.

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[Wayne Waag]

Jay,

This is even easier if you have Excel. Open a new worksheet and in first cell type in your first name. E.g. D875-C-001. Then place the cursor at the lower right position of that cell until you see a + sign appear. Then simply drag down however many regions you have. I chose 40. Here is the screen shot.

Now simply Copy (Ctrl-C). Return to Vegas to your project where you have already defined your regions. Enter Alt-6, Edit details and select show Regions. It will look something like this.

Select all the under the column Name, and then simply Paste (Ctrl-V). The region names from your Excel Worksheet will now be shown. Just another way to do it.

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