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New video card?
HI
I have had video editing software Sony Vegas platinum 9 for about 6 months now, and have had relativly few problems with it (It can be a bit choppy in the preview from time to time) However, lately it has become almost impossible to work with. Extremely choppy previews, freezing audio and green bands appearing across the bottom of my footage when loaded into Vegas which stays on the rendered videos, making it almost impossible to edit anything accuratly. My PC in general is running quite slow and I have done the usual things like defragging, disk cleaning etc but with no improvement(I have zero computer skills and followed a “How to” on youtube) Do you think I need a upgraded real time graphics card like Matrox to have Vegas work correctly? I work in HD with a Canon HV30 which is a mni DV cam.PC is a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo P with a Core 2 Duo E6400 chip and with 2GB of memory and a nVidia GeForce 7500LE graphics card, which is described as “Puny” In one review. Running Windows XP home edition (Service pack 3)
Would I benifit from an upgrade to better hardware as I just want to edit videos without all the headaches?
Kind Rgards
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OK, I done a few searches and it’s clear a new card will not make a blind bit of diffrenc as it’s all based on the CPU. So what would anyone recommend on the system I’m using, and will it be exoensive to remedy?
What I don’t understand is it used to work just fine with Vegas (A bit choppy but nothing to make you tear your hair out)
Regards.
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Vegas does not use your graphics card for anything so getting a new graphics card will do nothing.
What is the source of your videos? I’m guessing from your description of the green bands that you are trying to edit DivX or Xvid or some other highly compressed “YouTube-like” format. If so, then this is your problem. Convert your video to DV AVI or MJPEG, Huffyuv, or Lagarith, and your editing experience will be much improved.
~jr
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The source footage is m2t from the Canon HV30. the green bands issue can be seen about half way through this video https://www.vimeo.com/9661297 and now vegas wont even perform the most basic function correctly, such as showing text at the start of a video til the time line marker has way passed the text add. even then it’s jerky as hell.
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Are the green bands on the original footage when you play it outside of Vegas? It’s also odd that things are slowing down. Could it be your computer has a virus or some malware that is slowly taking it over? Or is the slowdown only in Vegas? Vegas normally handles HDV m2t files quite easily.
~jr
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My PC is generally slow these days and I have performed all the usual defragging etc…as described above. After defragging I had over 50% disc space available so My PC aint jammed up with much.
The green bands are not present when played through a HDTV, and they are really hard to pin down in Vegas, sometimes you can see it clearly stretched across sections of the footage and then it disappears, then it gets thinner then it comes back again and I cannot pin it down enough to splice it out. Don’t know about malware etc, is there anything specific you recommend to run through the system to clear it out as a first step to solving the problem?
A video I did just before my problems arose https://www.vimeo.com/8582620 No problems editing the footage accuratly and no green band issues at all, slight jerky preview but nothing to worry me.
Thanks for the input John
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Kevin,
I would recommend strongly that you download and run at least the following utilities:
https://www.malwarebytes.org/ – free version fine to start with
then
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
just run the installers – let the defaults apply and away you go.
it sounds like you may have some infections or virus(es) on your machine.
ccleaner clean out lots of old temporary files. Also, let it analyze your registry and clean out anything it finds.. *it will prompt you to make backups – make sure you do before it applies any changes*
once you have run these, then defrag your disc again..
This will take a while, but it will be worth it…
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Did you install anything new on your PC between the time that your last project edited fine and now? Any codec paks or anything you can think of. Maybe some piece of software replaced a Vegas codec with an inferior one?
As for malware checking, I’ve found that Malwarebytes is great for removing problems. I also use SpyBot and AdAware. All three have a free version and you should run a scan once a month just to be sure.
~jr
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Thanks Stewart, I will give it a go! Thanks for the advice.
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No John, as far as I’m aware I have dowloaded/installed nothing of that sort. I will try the virus stuff and see how that goes. Thanks again!
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Well, I have tried all the above and it was found to have NO issues with malware/viruses etc…and it has made no difference to either Vegas or my generally sluggish PC.
One thing I have noticed, and forgive me if this has nothing to do with this problem (Computer knowledge 0%) is that Vegas is occupying my “D” Drive and when I hover my cursor over the “D” Drive icon it says = Free space 0 bytes, total size 2.80GB and my “C” Drive says free space 126GB total size 232GB.
Is the lack of space in the “D” Drive causing Vegas to crawl to a halt? Or am I clutching at straws?
Thanks Guys
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