Capturing in sony vegas 6.o

[Daniel Klesh]

Thanks mike. I have an external usb2.0 powered 120gig portable hard drive and my c drive is about 220 gigs. Would you recomend me putting all my clips onto my external hard drive ?

[Mike Kujbida]

If you’re working with a laptop, that’s what I would do.
I’d replace the 120 with someting a lot bigger though.
If it’s a desktop, get another internal hard drive.
Hard drives are cheap these days so get at least a 500 gig model.

[Daniel Klesh]

So get a good hard drive then put all clips on it to work with ? Do you think putting the clips on the external will help speed ?

[Mike Kujbida]

With Vegas, the only thing that will help with speed is a more powerful CPU.
Having everything on one drive will drastically reduce the load on your current CPU as it won’t be trying to read instructions and write information to the same drive but, IMO, it won’t help speed things up.
Sorry 🙁

[Danny Hays]

Hi, Working with HDV files likw m2t or AVCHD are hard on the CPU as threir highly compressed. Just a few tracks and a few effects will lower your preview rate drasticly. Preview, auto is a good place to leave it. Also there is a roll off point on faster cpu’s helping here. We upgraded from a duo core to a faster quad core and saw no real difference it the preview window. But now the render time decreased by almost 400%. You can though, convert your HDV files to Cineform avi, a good lossess codec included with Vegas 7 or later I believe. Vegas works very efficent with this format and it can handle multiple render vith very little loss compared to m2t ot avchd. Hope this helps, Danny Hays