This is Hopeless...(Sony Vegas Question)

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Post by Rapture** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:49 pm

My pc has 768 DDR2 , and I'm using Vegas 5.0 , but still - my preview window needs to be played at least 10 times to catch up and to stop freezing the image. It doesn't have problems with long clips though,but when clips on timeline are crossing/changing,my preview window freezes for few secs. I'm using 680 MB for video preview window,but it's still like that... It's probably because of footage,because I'm using DivX footage. (please don't gimme that crap about Huffyuv or Lagarith,because my HDD is too small for those things.)
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Post by RIPmyprsoul » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:54 pm

Rapture** wrote:My pc has 768 DDR2 , and I'm using Vegas 5.0 , but still - my preview window needs to be played at least 10 times to catch up and to stop freezing the image. It doesn't have problems with long clips though,but when clips on timeline are crossing/changing,my preview window freezes for few secs. I'm using 680 MB for video preview window,but it's still like that... It's probably because of footage,because I'm using DivX footage. (please don't gimme that crap about Huffyuv or Lagarith,because my HDD is too small for those things.)
o come on...huffy/lararith isnt crap well maybe im not complaining cuz i have space...anyway for ur divx clips u should change the four cc code to divx if u havet already done so if u wanna still use them and to playback smoother drag a loop around the part u wanna preview and go to tools buil dynamic preview

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Post by Rapture** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:14 pm

I'm not sayin' it's crap , I'm just sayin' that I'm already sick of all those talks when people says to me : "Use Huffyuv or Lagarith!" . I'm just sayin' that I don't have enough space for those.

About DivX footage - I'm not complainin',just sayin' that Vegas might do some crap because of that.
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Post by RIPmyprsoul » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:17 pm

ok....now can we get on with my question :D

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Post by CrackTheSky » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:23 pm

Something else that may help is to turn off the Media Manager - I've never used it, at least, and I don't even know what it does. Since I figured out how to turn it off, Vegas boots faster and loads my projects faster, so you might wanna try it:

Options>Preferences>General>Uncheck "Enable Media Manager"

As Bashar said, try turning off unnecessary background programs. When you edit, just EDIT. don't surf the Internet, don't chat, just edit. That may help your speed a little.

I don't know that using a different codec would help all that much; you might as well convert some of the clips and see if it makes a difference.

If none of this really helps, and you still feel like you need Vegas to work faster, the only other thing I can recommend is to upgrade your RAM.

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Post by JaddziaDax » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:50 pm

lagarith and huffy seem to work the best for me, and they are top notch quality currently, even if youre sick of hearing it, you cant help the "truth"

i got more lag when editing with vobs than i have with lagarith/huffy files...

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try this if clip lag is the problem

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Post by Willen » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:25 am

Don't forget that typical notebook PC hard drives are on the slower side. 4200 rpm is normal for the economy and power-efficient models, and 5400 rpm for the mainline and 'desktop replacement' units. 7200 rpm drives, which have equivalent speeds to the normal desktop HDDs, are only found in ultra high-end models (or sold and installed as replacements/upgrades) and are usually much more expensive.

This means that programs and files will take longer to load and save. And if Windows starts using virtual memory (page file) that will also have an impact since the page file is on your hard drive. And virtual memory is much slower than main memory (RAM). Having more RAM can improve performance and minimize the usage of virtual memory but it still won't do anything for save and load times.
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Post by RIPmyprsoul » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:44 pm

thx for all the help i tryed all the things all u suggested and vegas works faster THX!!!! :D :D

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