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So freezer sent me a couple intros for capture productions, I’m making my clip and it previews fine in vegas, looks fine when I open the file in wmp or vlc or quicktime, when I render the intro out they’re laggy, like 1 fps, all other bits are fine like tf2 footage. Occasionally when I preview in vegas it will be a bit fucked up like other bits playing before others in the intro. Or sometimes if I just stop on a frame the preview screen will be completely green. Can post my pc settings/ project settings if needed. Thanks :)

My laptop can’t preview lags footage in vegas at a decent frame rate so to preview my vids and see if the edit is alright I need to render them out, usually .wmv so it takes less time. (Obviously not for the final) But I’ve tried different formats, .avi (uncompressed), normal .wmv, XDCAM .mp4, none have worked.

All of them are 30fps as is my project :/

previewing in vegas isn’t 100% accurate anyway ram previewing it will never be exactly what you see in a rendered file because of colourspace etc. if your laptop isn’t all that up to snuff then don’t worry about previews being all screwy. whenever i get solid colour in the preview window though it usually means i have to flush out my memory and restart vegas and that sorts it 100% of the time, because very occasionally (14gb memory represent) if i’ve been ram prevewing a shit ton of stuff, the pan/crop windows freak out too and get filled with solid red placeholders.

if you were using x264vfw i’d recommend looking at the settings inside the codec dialog when you render as there is something you can tick off that will eliminate weird/laggy disjointed effects at the beginning of videos.

otherwise, random dumb idea: is the captureprods clip undersamped for some reason from inside vegas somehow?

i use it in an avi container when i render out of vegas.

as for undersample, right click the clip in the timeline of whatever your project is, go to properties. look at undersample rate. i have no idea why it might mysteriously change by itself but hey, it’s vegas, baby!

Fixed it, as far as I can see it was the file clashing with my version of vegas (11), opened up vegas (10) rendered out uncompressed.avi and then opened in vegas (11) and rendered out to see if it worked and it was fine. :>>