Sony Vegas Pro 10 low memory error…

[Roland Wehlend]

…sorry, forgot: No need for a reply at this time; I’ll try to work with it over the weekend and see what results I get with different settings, etc. I’ll post my findings after. Cheers, Roland

[John Rofrano]

[Roland Wehlend] ” Just upgraded to Sony Vegas HD Production 10. I use an 8-core (7i Intel) Dell XPS, 12GB memory, 1 TB disk and run Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.”

The problem here is that all that memory is unused because Vegas Movie Studio is a 32-bit application and can only see 2GB of memory.

[Roland Wehlend] ” I get the low memory message when I render an project that has raster images and many .mts files to 1080-1920″

Lots of hi resolution images will cause memory errors. 1920×1080 is 2MP (mega pixel). If you are using images that are larger than 2MP (especially if they are in the 10MP range) you can probably solve your problem by resizing the pictures to 1920×1080 before using them in Movie Studio.

~jr

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[Gabriel Dauga]

My Memory & CPU graph barely moves: it stays at 1,40GB & CPU at 30% (knowing that I have 4GB Ram). I think that it’s the problem about Sony Vegas not detecting systems with over 2GB Ram…

[John Rofrano]

[Gabriel Dauga] “My Memory & CPU graph barely moves: it stays at 1,40GB & CPU at 30% (knowing that I have 4GB Ram”

You didn’t answer my question. Look at the picture I posted. Look at the area outlined in red.

How much Available memory do you have?

How much Free memory do you have?

Here is the picture again:

~jr

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[Roland Wehlend]

Hi John,

I got it working! First I rendered my Sony HDR-CX7 *.mts files to MPEG-2, Blu-Ray 1920×1080-60i with file extension *.m2v. Then I rendered the audio track using *.ac3. No low memory messages at all and the rendering time was OK. I also tried .avi and that worked well too (audio included, but quality for some reason not quite as good as with .m2v and separate audio stream). After that I took it to the 5.0 version of DVD Architect to burn a BD-R disk – and it didn’t even re-compress the video stream, it just compressed a few sound files – the output is fantastic.

So I’m all good for now – thanks much for your earlier advises, Roland

[John Rofrano]

Glad you got it working. If you use the “Blu-ray xxx” templates, DVD Architect will not need to recompress as you have seen. That’s the best way to create a Blu-ray disc.

~jr

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[Gabriel Dauga]

Sorry for not answering your question, here is what it says:
Available: 2400
Free: 400

[Gabriel Dauga]

However that is when Sony Vegas crashes, but in general it’s:
Available: 2700
Free: 600

[John Rofrano]

[Gabriel Dauga] “Free: 600”

That’s really low but I must confess, I can’t figure out what Windows 7 is trying to report with this number, since the Available should tell you how much memory is available, but I have gotten the Out of memory error in Vegas when free was very low (a few hundred like yours)

Did you change your Dynamic RAM preview to a large value? Check Options | Preferences | Video and look at Dynamic RAM Preview max (MB). It should have a low number like 128 or 256. If this is set too high Vegas can run out of memory. You might even try setting it to zero.

~jr

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[Gabriel Dauga]

I can’t open Sony Vegas, the message appears when I try to run it…