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Sony Vegas Pro 11 Rendering problems
I recently purchased a new hp laptop a dv6, it has 6gb of ram (5.48 of usable ram) and an AMD A8-3520M APU WITH RADEON 1.60 GHZ Processor.
I am trying to use sony vegas, have a whole bunch of videos I shot on my nikon d70 that i would like to edit..
On my old lenovo laptop I never had any problems with sony vegas, but on this one it seems like ALL I have are problems..
First, the preview screen always starts whatever video I import into it with a dark green screen, then the video goes back to normal but it looks like its kind of in slow motion. I have tried multiple settings to try render just 10-15 sec previews to see how they would come out and they have all rendered but when I go to view them the video freezes, or skips around but the audio plays fine…I really dont understand how on my cheap $300 lenovo laptop sony vegas worked flawlessly but on my $500 hp sony vegas is nothing but problems
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How can you blame SVP when it runs OK on one laptop but not the other? You have kinda proven that the problem is not necessarily hardware related.
It sounds like whatever tweaks you applied to get Vegas running smoothly on the Lenovo have not been repeated on the HP. I would check your preview settings in the preview window. Given you have the two laptops, why not line them up side by side and do a comparison with your preview settings, preview RAM.
Are you editing the same footage on both?
Does the Lenovo have a 7200 rpm HDD and the HP only 5400 rpm?
Is the Lenovo running XP or Windows 7?
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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hmmm…darn… Disappointing.
OK.
Things to think about:
* Are you sure you are rendering at the same frame size and bit rate, and in the same format as you were before?
– you may have been using modified formats that you have not kept
– Even if the new machine is more powerful, that could cause the freezing of rendered playbacks (HAH!….The denser the data, the lower the freezing point!)* Have you tried playing old rendered stuff of the same video format and size/quality, either your own or others’, on the new machine, ?
* Have you edited D70 footage on your old machine OK?
– The green bit sounds weird, and there _may_ be an issue with video formats or something. Some proprietary formats are difficult.* Are you importing the clips into the same project all the time?
– I read a blog @
https://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/fixing-sony-vegas-black-preview-window/
about green clips in Vegas, and that this meant the project was corrupt. So either dump that project and start afresh, or, if you have dine a lot of work (it does not sound like it yet) then move all the clips into a new project.* Maybe simply try reinstalling Vegas.
– I know that sounds trite, but it is easy to do, especially if you have not set up too many preferences etc, and has solved some weird stuff for me.Nick
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Well the lenovo crapped out on me, about a month ago hence why I had to get a new laptop and bought the hp.. I think the hdd is 5400 rpm but so was the lenovo. I dont remember ever really applying any tweaks on the lenovo to sony vegas.. I did try rendering a video I took on my youcam which was a .wmv file and it rendered fine.. all the files I am trying to edit on sony vegas are .mov files from my camera.. I tried downgrading quicktime to 7.6 but that didnt work either.. They stutter and seem to almost go in slow motion in the preview window. and they always start off with a green screen and then when I render the video (I will usually render about 10-15 sec just to test it out) the rendered video will play for about 1 or 2 sec (very choppy though) and then the frame will just freeze but the audio will keep on going.. This is so incredibly frustrating. I JUST WANT TO EDIT!
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After messing around with this for the past 2 days I have realized something… The .mov files that I would like to edit in sony vegas play fine in windows media player as well as vlc media player but when I play them in quicktime they looke very choppy.. Just like they would in sony vegas.. could this be a quicktime or .mov problem? I dont know what to do about it
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Do you have GPU assisted rendering on? I am having issues with my HP laptop when that is selected.
Bob
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