.MOV lagging in Sony Vegas

[Ownaej]

Hey everyone,
Relatively new motovlogger (although on a moped) so I guess I should have made my first post in the introduce yourself section , Ohwell..

As the title says, I've recently got a Drift HD but the .MOV format seems to lag in the vegas preview, when watching the video it's fine, after rendering it's fine it's just in the preview (changing to draft/auto and such does the same effect) but .AVI .WMV play fine. Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or could recommend a better editing software for windows?

Sorry if this is the wrong place/mentioned before, new to the forum

Thanks, Will

 

[Trinith]

Sounds like your computer just isn't powerful enough. Don't worry though, Vegas has a habit of making many computers its bitch. Make the preview window a fair bit smaller and it should lessen, if not go away completely.

 

[Ownaej]

Sounds like your computer just isn't powerful enough. Don't worry though, Vegas has a habit of making many computers its bitch. Make the preview window a fair bit smaller and it should lessen, if not go away completely.

Just tried that and it didn't work but that did make me try changing the project settings which did work, I'll have to edit it then switch the settings.

Thanks alot

 

[Trinith]

No problem. Vegas is one awesome program, but it's a VERY big resource hog. Make use of the settings presets/favorites. It will make it a lot easier to switch between the settings. I have 3, which one I use depends on which camera I filmed with. They're all set to render out with the exact same values as the input files. Works out quite nicely.

 

[Ownaej]

No problem. Vegas is one awesome program, but it's a VERY big resource hog. Make use of the settings presets/favorites. It will make it a lot easier to switch between the settings. I have 3, which one I use depends on which camera I filmed with. They're all set to render out with the exact same values as the input files. Works out quite nicely.

Yeah I know, I use to edit nearly every day on vegas, can't stand 11 so I'm refusing to go over 10

Was just puzzling me why it was lagging

 

[Nerb]

What video card and driver are you using? I have a gtx570 and any nvidia driver newer than 301.42 will stop my preview from working properly... I use Powerdirector though, but it might be related.

 

[BKarol]

It's probable the hardware but you can try changing the quality, above the preview there is a button with Draft, Preview, Good or Best written on it and each of them has 4 options Auto, Full, Half or Quarter try changing them.

 

[Ownaej]

It's probable the hardware but you can try changing the quality, above the preview there is a button with Draft, Preview, Good or Best written on it and each of them has 4 options Auto, Full, Half or Quarter try changing them.

Yeah I know, that didn't seem to make any difference what so ever, I've had to change my project settings down in resolution and it's fine so I'll have to change it back to the bigger size after editing

What video card and driver are you using? I have a gtx570 and any nvidia driver newer than 301.42 will stop my preview from working properly... I use Powerdirector though, but it might be related.

I'm running a ATI Radeon HD4550 not sure on the drivers though, but it's simple enough for gaming and can easily play most new release PC games, although it's not the same

 

[Panic]

Hey hey hey,

I've not used Vegas myself but I do know the .MOV format is a bit of a bi**h at times as its compressions pants and it belongs to Apple blah blah blah. I'd probably suggest trying to use a free program such as Handbrake to re-encode the file prior to working on it, encode it into h264 / MP4 which is wonderfully spiffy to work with in most editing suites.

I make most of my animated intros in After Effects and render them out in lossless quality as .MOV's but then pull them into Premier and re export them as h264 / MP4's and the filesize super reduces and it's smoother to work with.

Let me know if that helps ya matey.

 

[dexterbiker]

Best off if you are going to start doing this properly looking at spending £20 and upgrading the ram in your machine this will definitely help with the preview speed and other aspects, Sony Vegaly works on my new laptop runs fine but on work machine does exactly what you are describing with the preview lagging

Welcome also

 

[Ownaej]

Hey hey hey,

I've not used Vegas myself but I do know the .MOV format is a bit of a bi**h at times as its compressions pants and it belongs to Apple blah blah blah. I'd probably suggest trying to use a free program such as Handbrake to re-encode the file prior to working on it, encode it into h264 / MP4 which is wonderfully spiffy to work with in most editing suites.

I make most of my animated intros in After Effects and render them out in lossless quality as .MOV's but then pull them into Premier and re export them as h264 / MP4's and the filesize super reduces and it's smoother to work with.

Let me know if that helps ya matey.

Best off if you are going to start doing this properly looking at spending £20 and upgrading the ram in your machine this will definitely help with the preview speed and other aspects, Sony Vegaly works on my new laptop runs fine but on work machine does exactly what you are describing with the preview lagging

Welcome also

Thanks guys, it's just a matter of changing the project settings to a smaller ratio then editing and then changing the settings back to HD settings agian, that seems to work fine. As for the £20 RAM upgrade, I just bought a new carb so I'm skint

 

[RoninK6]

Ah I've said before >_> - Mac... Mac... Mac .....