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Importing Tracks Properly
I have a somewhat convoluted question regarding editing in Sony Vegas Pro 8.0c that I hope you fine folks could assist me with.
So I have several HD videos, all about 40 minutes long, that I need to take specific clips from (from all different parts of each video) in order to make a 6 minute HD video. Here are the general specs on the video files:
width/height: 1280×720
Data rate: 7374 kbps
Total bitrate: 7438 kbps
Frame Rate: 25 f/sI may have gone about putting together my project incorrectly which is really part one of my question. First, instead of importing each main video, or cutting down each video to just the scenes/clips I need and then importing the file, I made separate clips outside my project and then imported them all separately. So I actually might have 7 different clips in my bin that all came from the same source, instead of just the original file.
Is this a bad way of adding files to the project? Will it use up more system memory?
I ask the above two questions because I’ve encountered the dreaded memory issue that I’ve read a lot about on these boards. About half way through editing, Vegas would crash because it reached the 2 GB cap. So I did the CFF explorer fix to increase the cap on some of the major vegas files and that helped me to keep editing and adding files. (and I’m not running any other programs, even antivirus shut off while working) But now I’m closing in on 4 gigs usage and I’m crashing again. So that’s why I’m wondering if maybe I shouldn’t have made all those separate clips outside my project. Because I have no faith that I’ll even finish now with all the crashes, let alone make it through the rendering process.
Here are my specs:
Gateway NV53
AMD Athlon II x2 M300
4 GB Ram
Windows 7 64 bitAny answers/advice are greatly appreciated. My only possible solution (outside of redoing how I inserted each clip into the project and not sure that will do anything anyhow) is to cut the whole thing in half and render each half separately. Then ?possibly? splicing them back together with some program???? Anyone know if it’s possible to even do this?
Thanks in advance!
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[Jon Scippa] “I may have gone about putting together my project incorrectly which is really part one of my question. First, instead of importing each main video, or cutting down each video to just the scenes/clips I need and then importing the file, I made separate clips outside my project and then imported them all separately. So I actually might have 7 different clips in my bin that all came from the same source, instead of just the original file.”
I don’t understand how you may have done this clip creation, but you should be adding the original files to your Vegas project (just drop them into the project media) and then open each one in the Trimmer, mark the in and out points of the sections you need, and drag those to the timeline to build your project.
If you are using Windows 7 64-bit you should seriously consider upgrading to Vegas Pro 10 64-bit.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Ah, yes I wasn’t using the trimmer. Basically I was opening a new project every time I needed a clip and then cutting each scene down to what I needed. then I would import that clip to my main project.
I figured I was doing it all inefficiently. Looks like I have a lot of work in front of me now, going back and redoing this entire thing.
So does Vegas 10 64-bit run that much better?
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[Jon Scippa] “So does Vegas 10 64-bit run that much better?”
Well… you get full use of all of your memory so it solves any memory issues as long as your PC is configured for it.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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