Sony Vegas : EVERYTHING LAGS

[Jeremy Rasnic]

What does your project consist of? Media types? Are you doing compositing? 3D Track Motion? Big Picture files? What are your system specs? Hard drive specs?

j razz

[Andrew Han]

Um. I’m fairly certain I’m not doing any compositing or 3D Motion. It’s just a few Camtasia 6 Recordings of an online game.

I’ll have to get back to you on my specs, I’m on a laptop atm.

~Andrew

[Andrew Han]

Okay, well, I’m a little new to the forums, so I’ll just copy and paste the message in case you didn’t see it before.

“Um. I’m fairly certain I’m not doing any compositing or 3D Motion. It’s just a few Camtasia 6 Recordings of an online game.

I’ll have to get back to you on my specs, I’m on a laptop atm.

~Andrew”

Also! I’m a bit noob at reading these, so, copied directly from what I saw, my system specs:
-Total Capacity: 74.4GB, Used: 48.2GB
-1.5GB of RAM
-Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4CPU 3.00GHZ 2.99 GHZ.

~Andrew

[Allen Zagel]

Do I understand you’re on a laptop with only a 120gb HD and 1.5gb RAM? Is that your editing computer? I hope not.

Do you have an extra HD for your video files or is everything on your C drive?

Also have you cleaned out your computer lately? temporary internet files? Temp files and the like? Have you defragged lately?

Usually a computer slowing down like that means one or all fo the above.

Unless I mis-understand what you’re saying.
Allen

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[Steve Cooper]

while i am not an expert on vegas yet, i am an expert on computers in general. the size of your hard drive and the number of temporary files are good things to check but more likely, you should look at:

remove programs running in the background. go to start|run and type msconfig, and see all the programs that are starting up in the background when you boot. some may be crapware that can be disabled, like qttask.exe and jusched.exe.

make sure all your hard drives have at least 25% free space and defragment them all completely.

try disabling your antivirus software temporarily.

try updating your video card drivers, motherboard bios, and other key drivers.

if none of that works, consider re-installing windows from scratch or buying a new computer.

the 1s and 0s just get confused sometimes and spoil the fun for us humans.

regarding vegas itself, i am having all sorts of stability and slowness problems and i am looking forward to trying Vegas Pro 9… i also suspect maybe vegas pro and radeon video cards don’t always like eachother but i dont have much proof yet.

[system information:]
vista 64bit ultimate
vegas pro 64bit
core i7 940
asus p6t mobo
6gb corsair ram
radeon 4850
2x velociraptor 300gb
2x wd caviar black 1t

[Mike Kujbida]

[Steve Cooper] “i also suspect maybe vegas pro and radeon video cards don’t always like eachother but i dont have much proof yet.”

Don’t quote me on it but I vaguely remember reading elsewhere that a Vegas user cured his problems by swapping out a Radeon card for one from nVidia.

[Lance Herring]

I would first check to see what your page file and amount of available physical RAM are at. Right-click on the task bar, go to task manager, and then the Performance tab. Let me know what those numbers are. Then follow all that Steve Cooper said… particularly with disabling anti-virus. What anti-virus are you running?

Now with all that said, if you’re old projects work fine (at least to your liking) but new ones are slow, check your project settings. I’ve had issues where renders started taking a LOT longer, or wouldn’t come out looking too well. Project default settings got changed. Compare your settings of new projects with old ones (you can open two instances of Vegas and go back and forth to check).

If all that doesn’t work, uninstall and reinstall Vegas and see what you get. And by the way, your computer (as far as the specs go that you’ve listed) is fine to run Vegas on. Let us know what happens!