Sony Vegas Pro 11 Problems

[mickeymind]

I recently purchased a new hp laptop a dv6, it has 6gb of ram (5.48 of usable ram) and an AMD A8-3520M APU WITH RADEON 1.60 GHZ Processor.

I am trying to use sony vegas, have a whole bunch of videos I shot on my nikon d70 that i would like to edit..
On my old lenovo laptop I never had any problems with sony vegas, but on this one it seems like ALL I have are problems..
First, the preview screen always starts whatever video I import into it with a dark green screen, then the video goes back to normal but it looks like its kind of in slow motion. I have tried multiple settings to try render just 10-15 sec previews to see how they would come out and they have all rendered but when I go to view them the video freezes, or skips around but the audio plays fine...

I really dont understand how on my cheap $300 lenovo laptop sony vegas worked flawlessly but on my $500 hp sony vegas is nothing but problems

[budwzr]

I have a Qosmio i7 and Vegas screams fast.

[poisondeathray]

Check to see if you have updates and recent official drivers installed

[budwzr]

Check to see if you have updates and recent official drivers installed

Good Call!

[poisondeathray]

Are you sure it's a Nikon D70? Apparently they don't take video

Other Nikons record mjpeg or h264 in MOV, so you might need quicktime installed as well if you are recording MOV

[budwzr]

Hmmm.....it appears, the OP just wanted to cast expersions on a particular piece of software. Maybe one of those Uber Apple Lunatic-Fanatic Fanboi's.

My fangs are salivating now to dig into one-a-dem clowns.

[poisondeathray]

Hmmm.....it appears, the OP just wanted to cast expersions on a particular piece of software.

Yeah, umm nobody does that around here

[aedipuss]

Are you sure it's a Nikon D70? Apparently they don't take video

Other Nikons record mjpeg or h264 in MOV, so you might need quicktime installed as well if you are recording MOV

hehe, gotta love it. i don't recall any dslr taking video from that vintage ~ 8 years ago.

[poisondeathray]

I'm thinking d70 was a typo

Nice chart LOL - "zero value?" WTF does that mean ? How can an i7-2670QM be "zero value"

They probably had problems running the benchmark suite

EDIT: damn aedipuss you did a ninja edit and I didn't quote your post

[budwzr]

A $300 computer CAN cost $500 when you buy an HP.

I met a guy yesterday that told me he bought his camera last year, but somehow it has a 2 inch LCD.

[poisondeathray]

A $300 computer CAN cost $500 when you buy an HP.

But you can make the same point about a certain company with large margins named after a certain fruit

[budwzr]

I'm gonna take the high ground as a tribute to the excellent staff here at VH DotCom.

Buncha BS!

This owl is supposed to move, but I think it's stuck. How do you reset those?

[poisondeathray]

I'm gonna take the high ground as a tribute to the excellent staff here at VH DotCom.

Buncha BS!

This owl is supposed to move, but I think it's stuck. How do you reset those?

save it as an animated .gif , jpeg's contain no animation

[budwzr]

OK, but... Oops, that wasn't a gif.

[aedipuss]

I'm thinking d70 was a typo

Nice chart LOL - "zero value?" WTF does that mean ? How can an i7-2670QM be "zero value"

They probably had problems running the benchmark suite

EDIT: damn aedipuss you did a ninja edit and I didn't quote your post

yeh, it was some weird ass chart and i posted it without fully reading the rest of the page. was just looking for intel vs. amd ammo for a little fun.

never heard anyone claim a $500 retail laptop was high powered before... not that i'd even try editing with one like that using vegas. i have enough problems with a i7 desktop with 16GB ram a real video card and 7 hard drives with 8TB storage.

[budwzr]

Sometimes too much horsepower has a slowing effect. Like when Sony bling eats up half the ram from jump, before Vegas even gets cranked up.

I guess computers are supposed to be friendly now. So you need a half gig just to see the animated SOS messages that are really marketing ploys.

HP has a "magic canvas" mode, and if you make the mistake of activating it, you'll be transported to about a fourth grade level interface.

[poisondeathray]

Sometimes too much horsepower has a slowing effect. Like when Sony bling eats up half the ram from jump, before Vegas even gets cranked up.

I guess computers are supposed to be friendly now. So you need a half gig just to see the animated SOS messages that are really marketing ploys.

HP has a "magic canvas" mode, and if you make the mistake of activating it, you'll be transported to about a fourth grade level interface.

You can never have too much hardware "horsepower"

You 're talking about software bloat, that's different. Adobe is really bad for that too

Also the "packaged" computers like Dell, HP usually come with lots of bloatware with useless junk installed

(And your "owl" looks like a cheap "O'RLY" owl)

[mickeymind]

Just a note.. I am NOT AN APPLE FAN BOI! I got a droid 3 as a phone, and a windows computer.. yes I got an ipod but thats as far as my apple attention goes.. I will try the drivers updates.. hopefully that works.. and I was able to edit with sony vegas just fine on my $300 lenovo..I thought it would be even better on my $500 hp, but apparently not

[budwzr]

The thing is, to actually NOTICE any speed increase you have to go from $300 to $1300, not $500.

[mickeymind]

I've tried updating all my drivers, everything seems to be up to date.. but I still have the same issues with vegas.. and whenever I render the videos, no matter what format I render it to, they always come out with the sound playing fine but the video freezing and extremely choppy.. any more ideas about what I can do? I am dying to edit this video but I cant edit a thing because not only is the playback quality extremely choppy (no matter what preview setting I put it to, but the effort I would put into editing it would be wasted because the final rendered video always freezes

[budwzr]

What are the specs on the source video?

[poisondeathray]

Maybe it's a slow cpu issue? (ie playback issue) . Try rendering out to a SD format - if the exported video plays fine, then that's your answer

If that's true, you won't be able to edit smoothly unless you upgrade or encode to an easier editing digital intermediate, or use a proxy workflow

[mickeymind]

It says:
frame width: 1920
frame height: 1080
data rate: 20373kbps
total bitrate: 21932kbps
frame rate: 23 frames/second

AUDIO
bitrate:1558 kbps
channels: 2 (stereo)
audio sample rate: 48 kHz


ITEM TYPE: QUICKTIME MOVIE

[budwzr]

Looks pretty standard.

[mickeymind]

After messing around with this for the past 2 days I have realized something... The .mov files that I would like to edit in sony vegas play fine in windows media player as well as vlc media player but when I play them in quicktime they looke very choppy.. Just like they would in sony vegas.. could this be a quicktime or .mov problem? I dont know what to do about it

[budwzr]

Update your QT player. Vegas relies on it for playback too. That must be i-Phone/Pad video.

Remember! Apple doesn't play nice! They use "compatibility" as a tool to make people frustrated so they just give up and buy the Apple version of whatever.

Thank goodness they don't have an "Apple camera".

[mickeymind]

I did.. still plays choppy video.. I used movie inspector and it says:

format: H.264, 960 X 540, Millions 16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Stereo 48.000khz

I have no idea what it means but I have read that vegas doesnt play nice with H.264 do I need some codecs or something?

[budwzr]

I think that's X.264, so just install that, or you might as well just do a standard install of K-Lite and kill future birds too.

Is that a GoPro video?

Vegas doesn't favor any codec over others. If it's installed, Vegas will treat it like any other type. That's one of the benefits of Vegas.

However, hardware does play the key role in video production. H.264 is the universal codec of tomorrow, and most of today's hardware can't run it smoothly, yet.

If you're still saying a $300 computer was playing that back, then .... hmmmmm.