I can't understand why I pay 200 euro for Vegas 16 update and then third parties want 150 euro for a plug in to remove fisheye effect. A frigging feature which should have been built into the editor itself. Likewise with more advanced titling functions. The whole New Blu suite is like 1000's euro.

I got most of the New Blue stuff included in Vegas 13/14 but the license is not valid for Vegas 16.

So I can use Vegas 14 for edits which need to remove fisheye on GoPro footage. And also apply nice titles. To get the same in Vegas 16 I have to fork out like 550 euro extra. :-p

It seems like the bundled software has been changing and New Blue Titler is no longer included as of 16. Is that worth worrying about? Is it worth picking up an older version to get that? I never tried Titler since I worked with either Premiere Pro or the “Platinum” scaled down “Movie Studio” version of Vegas in the past.

Looking to buy a version of Vegas Pro this week and trying to make sure I pick the best bundle/version #.

"Most good modern software make auto conversion, work into their own space and on output do proper conversion again."

Resolve here I come.

@dancerchris

Yes this does the trick. After 3 years of dark renders.

But seems illogical (should be the other way around?), depending on which stage this setting is applied I guess.

@EspenB

Software must render footage same during preview, watch the waveform to see that happens.

I have the following issue with all my editions of Vegas including 16:

Footage is either GoPro 4/6/7 or GH3/GH4 - but its all the same redgardless.

After I have rendered the final edit I experience a slight shift in "brightness" in the final image compared to the original footage from the camera. Blacks are crushed and the whole picture appear a tad darker overall.

Is there any settings I have missed?

I have previously tried to fix with the "brightness and contrast" FX, bringing brightness up a little bit. However this should not be necessary?

I use Resolve. It does not provide 10bit output in either H264 or H265. Or any output in in H265. It still is designed as an intermediate grading program if you have another editor for final output. I do worry that Vegas Pro won't survive, and I dislike paying hundreds of dollars for what are marginal enhancements and bug fixes.

Until December 11, you can upgrade from an earlier version to the latest (16) for just $149. I think Vegas is really good especially in ingesting ProRes and even H265 and H264 10bit video clips. Moreover, the ACES transforms include Slog2/SGamut, Slog3, V Log, and even GoPro Protune flat with native color. So, without LUTs you can go from log gammas and wide color gamuts to either REC709 or HDR10 from many cameras. And the transforms are really good.

Here is a 4K test video shot in 10bit 422 H264 Vlog, transformed to HDR10 (HEVC 10bit) with no color grading, just the ACES transform:

And here is a 4K (60P) video shot in HEVC using Protune flat and WB native transformed to REC709 (HEVC 8bit), with no grading (ACES only):

Note how decent the GoPro dynamic range is, when you use Protune flat.

And here is a 4K video shot in Slog2/SGamut transformed to HDR10 (HEVC10bit) using ACES only:

All of these were produced on a small laptop - rendering took forever, but the editing was smooth and fast. I have other things to do, so I don't care how long rendering takes.

Oki. So we are back to my previous question about upgrading the graphics card. :-p

The answer is YES if I want hardware encoding on HEVC. :-p

Apparently there is no GPU support for HEVC encoding with Vegas16.

There is only Intel QSV which my Haswell based CPU doesn't have for HEVC (only for AVC).

So, edit is 8 mins worth of 4K GoPro Hero6 footage. Lens correction for fisheye removal.

AVC render with GPU: 00:09:08 (almost real time)
AVC render without GPU: 00:21:56
HEVC render with no GPU: 01:40:06!!! (basically 4,5 time as slow as AVC)

And if I drop the dewarping the clip renders in just 00:07:25 in AVC with GPU. So the lens correction (which seems to always use the 3D section of the GPU) doesn't significantly add to the render time.

While I don't excpect to do much HEVC encoding I tried it for fun.

The edit encodes in 9 minutes in AVC with the previously mentioned PC.

The HEVC encode time quickly elapsed to over 1,5 hrs remaining! And there was no activity in the "encoder" section of the GPU at all.

So I let the PC run overnight. Only to discover an out of memory message in the morning.

Amazing! New Vegas Pro 15, yes 15, updates (fixes):

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-15-update-8-build-416--113806/

For the first time in many years I found the "task manager"!

GPU usuage never goes above 70 per cent..

This was rendering 4K footage from GoPro with lens correction effects plug in for fisheye dewarping. So a heavy render for me.

Also memory still shows 4 GB available (There as a lot of web pages and other prgs open.)

So basically no need to upgrade anything? Besides for a new 8 core CPU. :-p