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Firewire external preview crashing to be fixed in Vegas 9 update
Got word today that the error some users have experienced wherein viewing a preview on an external monitor using a firewire device causes Vegas 9 to crash, will be fixed in an update. Took them a while to reproduce the error and there’s no word on when the update is coming, but if you’ve been sticking with Vegas 8 because 9 is useless until this feature if fixed, then just hang in there.
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Yes, there is an obvious bug within the external preview
and its corresponding preview features, along with others
…But its not a show stopper for me in the least, the
updates will gradually clear things up however.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
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Great news! Have had to go back to 8.0c for clients to be able to see any timeline monitoring. Sooner the better I guess.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney -
Hey Chris, since you also use firewire preview let me ask you this. Vegas 4 & 6 worked fine for me, but I noticed that in 7 and 8 I’ve had an issue where if you just play straight from the timeline, after about 8 minutes I start to get more and more dropped frames. If I use Print to Tape it can play for two hours with no problem, and this is over already rendered video which plays fine in the Vegas preview window. Ever encounter anything like that, and if so were you able to fix it? I edit a lot of 5-7 minute pieces so it doesn’t cause a lot of problems for me, but was curious why it happened. If I alt+tab to another window then back to Vegas, it will play perfectly for another 7-8 minutes.
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Dave ~
No I can’t say I have ever experienced the behaviour you mention on any version. Always had good full rate playback. At least on later model 3GB and up CPUs
What I have discovered though is if you make sure your preview window is 720×576(PAL) or 720×480 (NTSC) or if in widescreen 1049, yes 1049×576 or 480 most systems will play back on preview and output smoothly and with good quality over any period of time. Obviously frame rate will suffer and framerate will drop over complex bits of the timeline but that is to be expected on any software that derives all its horsepower from the CPU.
The above numbers seem to be an optimum settings as it appears there is no scaling of the video, it appears to be playing pixel for pixel. It gives you a big preview window which I don’t mind at all and from my experience the best playback for viewing and editing.
I have also found keeping your ‘Dynamic Ram Preview’ setting well down, like 16MB or so greatly helps in timeline playback stability and smoothnes. I only bump this figure up if I need to see a complex segment at full frame rate using the ram preview. After those sorts of previews I drop the figure back down again. Give it a try maybe?
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney
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