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GeForce ShadowPlay is a high-performance, fast and free gameplay-capturing tool that's available exclusively to GeForce customers. It has two user-configurable modes. The first, shadow mode, continuously records your gameplay, saving up to 20 minutes of high-quality 1920*1080 footage to a temporary file. Alternatively, in manual mode, which acts like traditional gameplay recorders, you can save your entire session to disk. Before uploading and sharing your ShadowPlay recordings with others, you may want to edit them to make them more stylish. However, when you tried to import ShadowPlay videos to Sony Vegas (Vegas Pro 13 included), you may encounter problems like these:

Q1: Anyone else use Shadowplay and Sony Vegas?
I record with Shadowplay and render with Vegas, however my videos never seem to look quite right. I assume there's a framerate issue somewhere. For example, when I'm moving quickly in the game you can sort of see the frames if that makes sense? Anyone that uses Shadowplay and Vegas, what settings do you record and render with?

Q2: Did the new update break something between Shadowplay recordings and Sony Vegas?
Since updating on the 13th all my shadowplay recordings show up as green screens in Vegas, tried the only fix I could find on google and that didn't work. Wondering if anyone else is having this issue

Q3: Shadowplay recordings won't open in Sony Vegas after the latest update (2.5.13.6)
After I updated GeForce Experience to the latest 2.5.13.6 version, any of the videos recorded via Shadowplay cannot be opened in Sony Vegas. I've tried tweaking the settings, capture modes or reinstalling GForce Experience - nothing has helped so far.

Many people are facing the similiar problems when using Shadowplay recordings in Sony Vegas Pro, especially those who has updated their Shadowplay to the latest version. Below are the possible solutions for solving your problems.

Solution 1: Roll Back to the previous version

I rolled back to the update from 7/22 and it fixed the issue so that my new recordings work fine but my recordings from the newest driver update still show up as green screened.

Solution 2: Convert Shadowplay recordings for Sony Vegas

Another option to fix the problem is transcode Shadowplay recordings to a more editing-friendly format, such a Sony Vegas's MPEG-2. Along with some help from third-party software like EaseFab Video Converter, you can effortlessly achieve your goal smoothly. With it, you can effortlessly transcode Shadowplay recordings for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Sony Vegas, Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro, Cyberlink PowerDirector, Avid Studio, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker and more.


Tutorial: Import, Edit Shadowplay recordings in Sony Vegas

1. Download, install and run the the best Shadowplay to Sony Vegas Converter, and click the "Add" button to load Shadowplay recorded videos.

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2. Select "Editing Software" - "Vegas/Premiere (MPEG-2)" from the format drop-down menu. The output video seamlessly fits Sony Vegas Pro 13/12/11/10, etc. and the original quality of H.264 video will be kept. Besides, you can also choose "Vegas/Premiere (WMV)" if you want to get a relatively smaller output file.

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Tip: Click "Settings" button if you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.

3. Click theConvert button, it will start encoding Shadowplay clips for importing to Sony Vegas Pro immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click "Open" button to get the generated files for edit in Sony Vegas Pro 10/11/12/13 perfectly.