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Im done with a huge project and now I am stuck! Help!
Computer specs:
Newest Mac Pro with 16GBs of RAM, 2xquadcore processors and ATI HD-gfx. (I can find the details if needed).
I am using Windows 7 64-bit with Sony Vegas Pro 9c 64-bit.
First I had problems with just using the program, but then I updated Windows 7 and Sony Vegas to newest version. Then I got to work!Now time has past by and alot of work have been put into making this project. This is my problem:
No computer can really provide enough power to preview full HD files(1080p) in real time for an editor, hence I made proxy files with lower resolution.
I finished my project and started replacing footage with the HD files. When I got through 3/4 of the files, Vegas just stops responding. There is absolutely no use of RAM/CPU in task manager. I don’t have a clue what to do.
It seems like Vegas refuses to use power of this computer.
How can I fix this?
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> How can I fix this?
Break the project up into smaller pieces. Render the smaller pieces and place them back into a master project (or try to just drop the nested project files into a master project after that but you might still run out of memory)
You might also want to contact Sony support to report the problem. This will at least give them a change to fix it.
~jr
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I am afraid, that I do not want to make such a work-around. It will not fix anything, even if it succeeded. I have a monster of a computer here and it should, indeed, be able to run everything smooth and properly.
I need to find a solution.
How do I optimize Vegas to use all of the computer power? I am nearly convinced, that the problem is Vegas not using it, hence the “loss of memory available”.
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> No computer can really provide enough power to preview full HD files(1080p) in real time for an editor
Getting back to your earlier comment… I preview HDV and AVCHD files at full frame rates in Vegas Pro 9.0c on my QuadCore with 8GB of memory every day. You didn’t say what format your 1080p files are or where they came from but my hunch is that Vegas is not optimized to work with this type of footage yet.
So, where did you get 1080p footage from and what codec do they use? This may be the key to your trouble.
> How do I optimize Vegas to use all of the computer power?
One thing is to not make Vegas do any unnecessary work. Since you said your footage was 1080p and Vegas doesn’t have a project for 1080p, which template did you use? If you are using an interlaced template, then Vegas is interlacing all of your 1080p footage on the fly which is asking it to do a lot of work for nothing. Make sure that your project is 1080p. In fact, I would use the Match Media option in the project properties to make sure that the project matches the source footage.
Also set your RAM preview back ot it’s defaults if you changed it. Any memory used for preview is not available for other tasks.
> I am nearly convinced, that the problem is Vegas not using it, hence the “loss of memory available”.
Something else to consider is that you have hit a bug or limitation. Earlier versions of Vegas would die after about 90 HDV clips were placed on the timeline. Newer versions fixed that but then dies with about 90 AVCHD clips on the timeline. The latest version is now handling that. As I said, you didn’t say what format your 1080p footage is but you may have hit the next limitation with how many of those clips can be on the timeline.
Try my suggestion with matching the project settings. If that doesn’t help, I would contact Sony Technical Support and work with them. You may have found something that they have not encountered yet and needs to be addressed by Sony?
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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