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Strange slow down with vegas files?
Hello, when I try to access avi files made in Vegas on my external hard drive they are very slow to open. When I look at the cpu usage it shoots up to 100% when I click on the avi to open it and everything pauses for a good 10 to 20 seconds on files larger than 200 mb. I should point out that this is happening in explorer in the folders themselves outside of the Vegas application.
Strange thing is that when I open avi’s made in Edius by Canopus or Premiere the same size avi opens up immediately without delay and the cpu usage shoots up to about 89% for only a split second, while the same file size avi made from Vegas sits on 100% for a good 10 to 20 seconds or more. It seems to be a problem with windows media avi’s, as another avi file from a Sony vision series (made for Vegas) behaves the same as the avi’s made in Vegas. It has made working on my laptop almost impossible when it come to moving & sorting through files. I would like to try changing the video codec priorities. Does anyone know how to do that or have any idea what may be happening?
Grant.Dell Inspirion 9300
2ghz Centrino
1 gig ram
6800 nvidea PCI express
60 gig 7200 rpm system drive
160 gig 7200 rpm ide firewire/USB 2 drive
Vegas 6 c -
6 Replies
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I have not noticed this with a firewire drive connected to my laptop.
Edward Troxel
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The same happens witrh a fire wire drive. have you noticed it with any other drives such as USB 2?
Grant. -
Make sure that you have turned off the Windows indexing service.
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Thanks for the suggestion Steve. Unfortunately I have done that already. Any other ideas? This is virtually stopping my work flow.
Grant. -
Do you have either of these two applications installed on your laptop? Is it possible that you’ve installed software from these applications that is causing this?
You say these are AVI files. I’m assuming that they all use the same codec, right?
Is this only happening on the external drive?
This isn’t normal behavior for a dv avi file created by Vegas. But then, you haven’t said that these were DV avi files.
Rob Mack
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Yes I have Edius installed & Premiere & Vegas. I use all three.
The avi files from Edius use a Canopus avi codec, the Premiere avi’s use some other
and the Vegas use what ever Vegas uses, I think video for windows avi.This is not happening on my system drive in the laptop, but is happening on two external desktop IDE drives with two different cases.
They are all DV avi files.
Do you know if you can change the priority of codec in windows XP?
Grant
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