This is Hopeless...(Sony Vegas Question)

RIPmyprsoul · Post by **RIPmyprsoul** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:01 pm

And when I mean hopeless, this question might not be able to be answered...My question is...how do you make Sony Vegas faster? Should I buy more memory/RAM/hard drive space for my computer or is there actually a free way I can use to make it faster?

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:10 pm

How much RAM do you have now?

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:16 pm

what are your system specs and what format/codec is your source?

Pwolf

hydrax · Post by **hydrax** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:34 pm

Here's a good tip to speed start up time:

Go options > prefrences > uncheck ''show logo splash...''

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:42 pm

A good method is also to check out Windows and to shut down unnecessary things. The easiest thing to do is to stop or close your virus scan programm.

This could be very usefull (the shareware is enough for those needs):
http://www.tune-up.com/

Scan your system for adds, pests (spyware) and viruses and let them remove.

If you use the Lagarith looseless codec... Change to the more faster Huffy.
If you work with avs scripts of XviD stuff or something like that (of course DVD d2v files excluded) in Vegas... Load them into VDM and cut out and render out the clips you need.

This should help.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:51 pm

Pwolf wrote:what are your system specs and what format/codec is your source?

Pwolf

what he said... it helps to know more information before giving any real answers

RIPmyprsoul · Post by **RIPmyprsoul** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:30 pm

Okay. My system specs are...:

Toshiba Laptop
RAM: 504 MB
Memory (Space on Hard Drive): (about) 120 GB
About 60-70% Space left

Intel(R) Pentium(R) M Processor 1.73 GHz

Anything else you need to know?

RIPmyprsoul · Post by **RIPmyprsoul** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:31 pm

I edit with MPGs straight from the DVD/PS2 Discs also and sometimes use and assortment of Lagarith/Huffy encoded AVIs

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:36 pm

"faster" would be a RAM / processor issue. But in all honesty, your specs aren't that bad for a notebook (and upgrading them often sucks / isn't possible without major expenditure of money). Aside from making sure you're not running a lot of unwanted processes (spyware/adware/virus scan lately?) there isn't much else you can do. Maybe if you'd define slow for us we could help a bit more... it may just be that your perspective of time is vastly optimistic when it comes to what you're working with.

RIPmyprsoul · Post by **RIPmyprsoul** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:44 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:"faster" would be a RAM / processor issue. But in all honesty, your specs aren't that bad for a notebook (and upgrading them often sucks / isn't possible without major expenditure of money). Aside from making sure you're not running a lot of unwanted processes (spyware/adware/virus scan lately?) there isn't much else you can do. Maybe if you'd define slow for us we could help a bit more... it may just be that your perspective of time is vastly optimistic when it comes to what you're working with.

THX...

well really it isn't all that slow, I just want to optimize and use time wisely instead of just waiting around waiting for something to load/render. Well my problems are this...:

1) When I first add a new file to the timeline, Vegas can freeze for 1 minute before being able to put it on the timeline

2) Vegas is slow when I magnify or diminish the timeline so I can better see the work I did

and 3) Rendering times are very slow.

I think it may be that I edit with MPG clips, in which case should I convert them to Huffy if it is so?