Preferences - Video Tab

Enter a value to set the amount of RAM that you want to dedicate to video previews. For more information, see Using dynamic RAM previews

IMPORTANT The maximum size of the RAM cache is displayed to the right of the control. If you reserve excessive amounts of RAM for your RAM cache, performance may decrease.

This setting specifies the maximum number of threads that will be used for rendering files.

Increasing the setting will not increase performance beyond the number of available threads; for example, if you have a single-processor computer, choosing 2 will not improve rendering performance.

Decrease the setting if you have a multiprocessor (or multicore) computer and want to limit processor use or turn off multithreaded rendering. For example, if you had a dual-processor hyperthreaded computer, choosing 3 would allow you to keep one thread available for other tasks while rendering.

Many built-in video processing functions and video plug-ins in VEGAS Pro support GPU acceleration. To enable GPU-accelerated video processing, choose a device from the GPU acceleration of video processing drop-down list.

Choose Off to turn off this feature.

Determines how individual frame information, located in a box at the lower left-hand corner of each frame, will be displayed. The frame information box can include Frame Numbers, Time, or Timecode.

Choose a setting from the drop-down list to choose which thumbnails you want to draw in video events.

• None: No video frames are displayed.

• Head: Only the first frame is displayed.

• Head, Tail: The first and last frame are displayed.

• Head, Center, Tail: The first, middle, and last frames are displayed.

• All: All frames are displayed.

TIP If you want to toggle audio waveforms in events, choose View | Audio Event Waveforms.

When using 4k media and above proxies are created automatically. You can disable this here, when you have a real fast machine.

Select this checkbox and click the Browse button to choose the application you want to use to capture DV or Video for Windows clips.

Clear this checkbox if you want to capture SDI/HDV clips using the internal VEGAS Pro video capture application.

Specify a percentage for the border size in the video's safe area. Video within this safe area will always be visible on a television monitor. The safe action borders are displayed in the Video Preview window as a grid via clicking on the Overlays button .

Specify a percentage for the border size in the video's safe title area. Video within this safe area will always be visible on a television monitor. The safe title borders are displayed in the Video Preview window as a grid via clicking on the Overlays button .

Specifies the settings for the grid in the Video Preview window. The grid is used to help you line up overlays, pan and scan, and video motion.

Displays the Video Preview window at the size specified on the Video tab of the Project Properties dialog.

Displays square pixels in the Video Preview window even if the Pixel aspect ratio setting in the Project Properties dialog is using nonsquare pixels (DV).

This switch will turn on/off square/non-square interpolation, allowing faster playback and viewing flexibility when drawing video frames to the VEGAS Pro Video Preview window.

TIP When you are performing pixel-critical editing (such as chroma keying or precise track motion/cropping), leave this preference turned off. Turning on square-pixel interpolation will scale the image and can potentially hide some detail when it combines pixels.

Determines the color of the Video Preview window's background.

If you're working with a stereoscopic 3D project and want to override the project settings for previewing your stereoscopic 3D project in the Video Preview window, choose a setting from the Stereoscopic 3D mode drop-down list.

For more information, see Stereoscopic 3D editing

Select this checkbox if you want to display take names in the Video Preview window when editing multicamera video.

For more information, see Editing multicamera video

Select this checkbox if you want to display take names in the Video Preview window when editing multicamera video.

Click to display a color picker you can use to choose the color that will be used to indicate the current take when editing multicamera video.

Click the button to switch between RGB and HSL color modes, or click the eyedropper to sample a color from your screen.

Determines the color of the fade-to-color envelope when the envelope is dragged toward the top of the track.

Click the color swatch to display a color picker, where you can choose any color using the RGBA or HSLA controls. Click the button to switch between RGB and HSL color modes, or click the eyedropper to sample a color from your screen.

For more information, see Video track automation

TIP You can set the track fade colors for each video track independently by right-clicking the track header, choosing Fade Colors, and then choosing Top or Bottom from the submenu.

Determines the color of the fade-to-color envelope when the envelope is dragged toward the bottom of the track.

Click the color swatch to display a color picker, where you can choose any color using the RGBA or HSLA controls. Click the button to switch between RGB and HSL color modes, or click the eyedropper to sample a color from your screen.