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preview too jumpy, questions about pre-render and proxy
Hello- I am new here and new to Vegas Pro, and new to NLEs in general.
I am using Vegas Pro 8.1 64bit Vista with 6GB RAM and a Core i7 quad-core cpu. My source files are Canon AVCHD on 7400rpm and 10,000rpm hard drives. Nothing else running except the standard background Windows Vista noise. My target is widescreen NTSC DVD, generally.
I chose Vegas Pro because it is the only NLE I’ve found that allows me to tag my AVCHD files with ratings and comments (media manager is awesome!) (If anyone knows of another please let me know BTW.)
I am very annoyed by the fact that the preview is jumpy, especially as it moves from one event to the next. I did not see this problem with Adobe Premiere Pro on the same exact computer. It makes editing a lot harder for me.
I have tried a few things– what I’ve found is that there are two tools of interest: Generating Preview in Dynamic RAM seems to eliminate this problem, as does Selectively Pre-Rendering. Are these features designed to help solve the problem I am having?
If so, I can’t understand why Vegas can’t be set up to automatically do these pre-render/pre-caching for me in the background as I edit. If these features are not for this purpose, then what are they for? A quick search of these forums acknowledges the jumpiness as a result of using complex codecs such as AVCHD, but doesn’t seem to mention these two commands as a remedy.
I would also be interested in trying to use proxy files, but I don’t fully understand the workflow. I have the script ProxyStream which works great for generating avi proxy files but the part that I think is supposed to swap in the avi proxy files for the mt2s files is not working correctly, or I am using it wrong. Anyone have advice for me?
Sorry to pack several questions into one post.
Thanks!
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…but the part that I think is supposed to swap in the avi proxy files for the mt2s files is not working correctly…
Proxy Stream just got updated ( m2ts extension added in 1.0c) so grab the new version and see if that helps.
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