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Problems with Vegas on Beefed-Up Computer
I recently had to buy a new computer, so I upgraded to an Intel Core2 Quad 2.4GHz processor and 4GB of RAM. I’m running 32-bit Vista, and there’s lots of room on the hard drives. The program is running on my internal drive, but the videos are on a networked external drive.
It seems like rendering is slower now than on my old machine, and something is causing Vegas to hang for a few seconds with the “hourglass” running after I switch back to it from another program. It functions again only after I click in a window, watch Vista wash out the screen for a couple seconds, then click again.
I have removed all unused media from the project, which seems to help performance a little, but it’s still sluggish.
Anyone have any notion what’s going on?
Thanks in advance.
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> It seems like rendering is slower now than on my old machine
Did your old machine have the video on a network drive? Are you rendering to the network drive? Did your old machine have a faster single core and your are rendering to a format that is not multi-threaded? Any one of these could change rendering speed.
> something is causing Vegas to hang for a few seconds with the “hourglass” running after I switch back to it from another program.
This is because your media is on a network drive. The only way to stop this is to not have Vegas release your media files. This means you will not be able to edit these files outside of Vegas while Vegas is running (i.e., no more Edit in Sound Forge option). To do this go into Options | Preferences and uncheck Close media files when not the active application.
~jr
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I’m rendering to an internal drive, but using media from a networked drive. I agree, that’s probably a large part of the issue.
What’s the best workaround? I want to keep my projects on an external drive. Should I copy the media to the internal drive until the project is finished, then move it? What’s the best way to keep the paths intact?
Thanks for the Preferences tip. That did the trick.
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You could use an external interface that is as fast as internal. I have a 5 drive external enclosure that’s eSATA and the drive access is just as fast as internal. Firewire would be my next choice. USB would be my last but it can be done. You just have to put up with slower response because rendering requires that every frame be brought into memory so the speed of the interface can become a bottleneck.
Personally, I work on an internal 1TB RAID and when the project is done I copy it out to external drive for archive.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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