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slow peak building
I have SVP 12 on a i7-2600 computer with 16Gb ram.
I dragged a couple of hours worth of video onto the timeline. It takes at least as many hours building the peaks for it before it appears on the timeline. Processor activity peaks at 99% with 4Gb of ram used.The computer is extremely sluggish in everything else I try to do. But even when I do nothing else, it takes forever.
Is there a way to speed things up so I can start editing sometime this week?I appreciate any input.
Thanks.
J.J. -
3 Replies
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Check to see how much ram you have allocated to Vegas preview. Its in the properties. By default its pretty low and you are trying to put in a lot of video so you may have to bump the ram up.
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Does it matter whether the video files are on one hard drive or two?
Does it matter whether the hard drives are of a different kind?
When I disconnected one of those two drives and loaded the remaining video on the timeline, it went much faster. Probably due to already having built the peaks? -
It really shouldn’t matter if its from separate drives, but best practices, IMO, is it should be on one drive due to throughput when rendering, playback issues as if one drive is real slow (sounds like that is happening to you) issues will arise. especially if the files are large. That being said you can also edit with proxies which may/may not help also. But try putting all footage on you fastest drive and see what happens. Also, put it on a system drive and not an external, unless the external is made for media and is a RAID of some sort that has some speed to it. But sounds like the issues are coming from your slow drive IMO.
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