Sony Vegas 10 Long Loading Times

[John Rofrano]

[Daniel Shepard] “so i was hoping someone knows a fix? Or to confirm my fears thats its because of the raw 100gig worth of files is the cause of the lengthy loading.”

One fix might be to convert the files to a format that is easier for Vegas to edit. I’ve never used FRAPS footage but I thought the files were very large which would also place a heavy load on your hard drive. Converting to a format that is smaller and easier to edit like Motion JPEG might be a good solution.

~jr

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[Nigel O’neill]

4GB of RAM on an x64 system is a bit on the low side. I would consider upgrading your RAM to 12 or even 16 GB if the mobo supports it.

You did not mention how many HDD’s you were using. If you only have 1 HDD, your system will struggle. In this instance, adding a 2nd HDD may only slightly improve things. I agree with John that FRAPS is the cause of the long load times.

Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Daniel Shepard]

yeah i was going to buy ram when i got the upgrade last year but now im just saving up for a i7 rig, i dont have to do much editing to it so i think i can deal with it for the time being
but ill convert my fraps footage to your said format next time i do a project, and i figured as such because

i remember now i had the same problem years ago when i was editing old counterstrike fraps footage windows movie maker couldnt handle all the data and constantly crashed or lagged much to the same extent of the current veags

i have 2HDD’s my main 1TB Black i have everything on, and my 2ndary HDD is a average Blue 500gig were i keep fraps and other non escentuals on, because i have a 2ndary hdd i get better fps in games because the game loads off my main hdd and fraps records the data to my 2ndary harddrive

but sony vegas is on my main hard drive so it trying load all that data from a 2ndary hard drive might also add to the load time Hmmm

Thank you for the quick reply’s and advice.

[Jim Greene]

This is most likely due to the FRAPS codec more than anything else. I currently have Vegas Pro 10.0c running on an old system with a Quad-Core 2.4GHz and only 3GB RAM running on XP (so I can’t add more RAM, actually have 4 installed, XP can only see 3). My system runs fine. I would love a faster system, but it’s OK for now.

If your secondary drives are internal, this should have no performance impact. While I do get better performance when editing on source that is on one of my internal drives, I often use USB 2.0 external drives. A little more sluggish, especially when scrubbing h.264 1920×1080 files, but still not a major problem.

Most of my projects are over 100GB. I just timed loading a project that has 120GB of h.264 1920×1080 files. It took 20 seconds to load, ready to edit, and then another 20 seconds to draw all the timeline thumbnails in the background. This is a multi-cam project with 4 cams, each with audio, plus a few other audio tracks.

Except for a few crashes due to old 3rd party plugins, Vegas Pro 10 is remarkable. The only problem I really have is sometimes it can take many seconds, even a minute, to play the timeline. Weird.

-Jim.