-
Is my system powerful enough for Vegas HD 11? (Choppy Preview Playback)
I’m not sure I want to know the answer to this, but…
I have a “decent” computer, no screamer, but decent:
Intel Pentium 4 Dual 3.2GHz Processors
4GB memory
32-Bit Windows 7 (yes…I know, 64 bit and more memory is better)I have a couple of mirrored internal SATA drives for storage.
But my problem is that the video playback in the preview window is so choppy that it is almost unusable.
I’ve seen mention of “Dynamic RAM Preview”, but I have also seen people saying that doesn’t fix the choppy preview problems.
I really can’t justify throwing down money for a new machine right now…any thoughts as to how I can smooth out playback?
I don’t have anything else running.
Thanks in advance!
-Emmett
-
4 Replies
-
For use with HD video a good video card and an I5 or I7 Intel processor is best. AMD quad cores work too.
Does your machine play back HD video at full screen without glitching or audio video sync issues?
Playing back inside an NLE can be troublesome. Vegas gives you the option to use lower res playback for working on the video. It will still render at the quality you select when you render. -
mirrored internal SATA drives for storage
Hope they are striped, rather than mirroed, because that wont work well on a mashine that age
-
Nope…mirrored…my goal was data protection, but I figured that the mirror would help with read performance as well. Unfortunately, it’s Win7 software raid…so it’s sucking up some of my precious CPU cycles. 🙁
-
With those spec, you will have a hard time editing on a single standalone SATA disk. Since your disk are mirrored, you will have problems.
Cheapest thing for you to do to try and improve your situation, is buy a extra SATA disk and place your media and project folders there. Then leave the OS and install on your current partition.
It will still be a problem, but it should be able to work.. but slow
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up