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Multicam lags in fast forward…
Hey CC,
I edit a video with two sources in Sony Vegas 12 and if I try to play at 2.25x speed, it starts to get choppy and video lag. It’s not smooth at all.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
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3 Replies
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What is your source? AVCHD, DV or HDV? AVCHD is the most processor intensive to play back, and the only real solution is to buy a system with the fastest CPU you can afford. You really cannot edit multiple tracks of video smoothly with anything less than an high end i7 CPU. I edit 4 tracks of multicam with a mix of HDV and AVCHD video sources and my system only just keeps up. The preview is a bit laggy, and I switch between Preview Full and Draft Full
You could use a product such as Gear Shift to create proxies, or upgrade to Vegas 13 which I believe has a native capability to generate proxy files.
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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In addition to telling us what format is used by the source files, you should also tell us a lot more about your computer.
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And where are you seeing the lag, preview or rendered output? In preview try a lower resolution. What happens in preview is that Vegas has to create a new i-frame for each frame displayed, and to do that it has to start from the prior i-frame then work its way up to the current frame. That takes a lot of processor horsepower to do it in real time.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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