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Added more ram…not much difference
I am running Vegas 6.0 on a Sony Vaio 3.0Ghz P4 with 1 gig of RAM. I just added another Gig of RAM, (now I have 2 gigs of RAM) and I really haven’t seen an incredible upgrade in performance. It still takes quite a while for Vegas to render. I checked the “properties” tab, and it shows 2GHZ of ram, so I know it’s in there.
I even cleaned out my D drive and defragged it along with defragging my C drive. I’ve never hooked this computer up to the internet, so there are no viruses. I guess I had hoped for double the speed (with double the ram) but that doesn’t seem to be happening.When Vegas is rendering an MPEG 2 file from a VEG, my performance monitor shows 100% while it is rendering with about 675 PF usage (whatever that is)
Everything is SD, and I’m not sure why I haven’t seen a huge improvement in performance.
Any ideas? I hope I’m expressing myself correctly.
Thank you for your help
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[Mossman] “Everything is SD, and I’m not sure why I haven’t seen a huge improvement in performance.”
More RAM will let you do a bigger slice of the timeline as a RAM render. Other than that, Ram is not a big factor in rendering time
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Thank you….I thought I was losing my mind.
Thanks again for the help. You’re a great resource.
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You’re welcome.
It’s no proof that you’re not loosing your mind, though :-0
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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I even cleaned out my D drive…
A “D” hard-drive usually means (on a VAIO – I have 4) that you have a single hard-drive that is partitioned “C” and “D”. For instance a 80GB hard-drive could be divided (partitioned) into a 20GB “C” drive and 60GB “D” drive.
How are you saving your digitized media (avi’s)?
If it’s to the “D” drive and it is a partitioned part of the original “C” drive that is your problem with the speed of rendering. Vegas is rendering within the same physical hard-drive and you need to buy a second internal hard-drive. I bought a 250GB internal Western Digital hard-drive (don’t need a SATA) for under $100 at Circuit City that is easily installed in most VAIO desktops. Just open the lid and the cables are there waiting for it to be installed next to the original hard-drive. After installing, the new drive became the “I” drive (the next available letter). E-H were already assigned to the various card readers (memory stick, SD, etc.), DVD-ROM and DVD burner that came with the VAIO.
If you already have a second physical drive you can ignore what I just said.
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One expert claimed the Preview buffer need not be more than 128MB with 1GB of total RAM.
Shouldn’t the buffer be enough to hold the amount of video that can be pre-buffered? And, isn’t this defined by the Delay before Play value?
So if one is willing to wait no more than 1/2 second, for 1080i60 HDV — how big should the buffer be?
Best Regards,
Steve Mullen
Digital Video Consulting–Las Vegas
http://www.mindspring.com/~d-v-c
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