Upgrading from Vegas 10 for h265 and h264 4k

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Athena1965

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I have a 4k monitor and Samsung h265 4k and Panny h264 4k. My computer is Dell xps 8500 Windows 8.1; i7 3.4ghz, 12 ram, amd radeon 7700. And Vegas 10. h265 needs to be transcoded of course in Wondershare, h264 4k previews extremely poorly in the vegas timeline. Will a newer version of Vegas or Premiere help my cause? I'd like to be able to edit natively in either 4k codec. Do I have to change out my computer? Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
Hello, Athena1965.

No one here will be able to accurately predict how Vegas Pro 14 or Premiere Pro are going to perform on your PC. Download the free trials and try them for yourself!
 
Athena1965 said:
I have a 4k monitor and Samsung h265 4k and Panny h264 4k. My computer is Dell xps 8500 Windows 8.1; i7 3.4ghz, 12 ram, amd radeon 7700. And Vegas 10. h265 needs to be transcoded of course in Wondershare, h264 4k previews extremely poorly in the vegas timeline. Will a newer version of Vegas or Premiere help my cause? I'd like to be able to edit natively in either 4k codec. Do I have to change out my computer? Thanks in advance for any advice.
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H.265 and H.264 are not editing codecs, there is no realistic alternative to transcoding your footage or to use proxies if the videos are 4K and up.

By the way I would use something else than Wondershare, consider straight ffmpeg or HandBrake or Xmedia Recode (all of those are free).
 
Of course you can edit H.265 4k. Cary is just saying that H.265 compression is not optimized for editing performance. You might find it to be slow. Editing performance will depend on your computer and on a number of factors specific to your project, like the bit rates, frame rate, number of angles in multicamera editing, and what effects you apply. That's why you really need to try it for yourself. Only you can say if the performance meets your standards. BTW, Vegas Pro 14 can create proxies to speed up editing performance.
 
it seems transcoding is what everyone does with h265. Are there any NLE's with a good transcoder built in? I use a standalone called Rock Mountain. Works good.
 
I'm pretty sure Premiere does to something more edit friendly, but performance will be sluggish until it creates optimized proxies. Avid will also edit them sluggishly, but is better if you transcode to a proxy. You might also give the free version of DaVinci Resolve a try. If you like it they just dropped the price of the full version to $299. The free version will edit 4k but wont save greater than HD.
 
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