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Vegas 9e on Windows 7 64bit Memory issues
Hi Gang
I have a Custom computer using an ATI Radeon HD 3800 series with 8 gigs of ram and tons of hard drive space. System has been acting up, blue screens etc. and telling me I have issues with my graphics card (drivers are up to date). (It didn’t much like the NVIDIA card I had in before either). Now, as I muddle through a huge project, which I am doing in sections, I am getting memory notices suggesting I shut down other programs, (there are no other programs). The files are a mixed bag with material coming in HD from an EX1R and a Canon 7D as well as HDV from a V1U and a Z7 (Sonys). While the timeline played .mov files roughly, it doesn’t play them any more. It plays some, but not all, .mxf conversions from the EX1R. It does not complain about the HDV. It just took 46 minutes to render 1 and 1/2 minutes worth of footage and still is black for the .mov and some .mxf portions. Weird and not wonderful. In other words it is screwed up badly. Has anyone experienced this? I do not want to go back to Premiere with my tail between my legs. I love Vegas but it’s acting like a mean woman.
Bob
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Well I think you’re right about Vegas being a mean woman, but I’d describe it as more of a tease. It tempts you with its ability to play mixed formats in a single timeline, but when you actually get going it really doesn’t perform well enough to be useful. I primarily deal with mxf’s from a Sony EX1, and I’ve had a much easier time integrating those 7D mov’s after converting them with Cineform. You can try the demo out for free, and the files take up a lot more space than the originals, but the time and frustration you save will probably be worth it.
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I second the Cineform recommendation. I too was having similar issues using Canon 5dMkii files. Once converted (losslessly) into .avi files using cineform the evil hag woman became a gentle and expert lover.
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I second the Cineform recommendation. I too was having similar issues using Canon 5dMkii files.
In fact, you a project where you are ingesting so many different formats (HD from an EX1R and a Canon 7D as well as HDV from a V1U and a Z7 (Sonys)) I would definitely convert all of them to a common format (Cineform) for editing.
BTW, This is what NLE’s like Final Cut Pro would do. This is why FCP converts everything to Apple’s common format regardless of the original source. It is way more stable to work on a common format than to have your NLE trying to interpret all these different HD formats on the same timeline.
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Yep, as posted elsewhere, I’m also experiencing very similar problems on a similar platform. As also stated elsewhere, try converting the .MOV files, and apparently there is a free piece of software that came with the Canon cameras to do just that, so you might not have to buy Cineform (I did). Given that I also have been having no problems until I started using .MOV (I just edited and rendered to DVD an hour of interview in AVCHD without conversion), my pea sized brain thinks that Sony is having a hard time with MOV and though they like to claim they can ingest anything, it’s time to do like the big boys do and convert most stuff coming in. You guys with the HDV…sheesh…good work not upgrading to the “latest and greatest”. The amount of conversion I’m doing down to SD makes me wonder about it as well!
Alf
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