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The system is low on memory. You may be able to reduce memory usage by closing other applications
I’ve been using Sony Vegas for a long time. I’ve used various versions of the program going back to Vegas 3 back when Sonic Foundry owned it. I use Vegas to edit video I shoot of family and friends and turn these into short 3-5 minute video clips that are similar to music videos I suppose. I have a blast doing this. But lately I’m frustrated with these low memory issues.
Here are my specs:
Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10.0
Intel Core i7 up to 2.66 GHz 4 cores
16 Gb Memory
NVidia GeForce GTX 260 1.8 Gb onboard memory
Windows 7 Home PremiumI was using 9 Gb of memory and installed 24 Gb yesterday hoping that would cure my ills, but I should have researched that more as now I’m learning that didn’t do the trick at all and Windows Home Premium only allows 16 Gbs to be used.
After reading many posts and watching some youtube videos I’m learning I need to tweak settings possibly within Vegas, but that’s where I’m at a major loss in know how.
Many posts I’ve read on the subject are focused on rendering times. I’m not concerned with my 3-5 minute videos taking too long. Long rendering times don’t bother me because of my own workflow on these projects. It’s truly a hobby.
Let me explain a little more about the video I’m editing so maybe someone can suggest optimum settings.
I have video files that are 5 years or so old and aren’t HD that are much easier to work with. But lately I’ve been shooting with a Kodak Zi8 HD and usually use the 720 p at 30 fps. So I have a bunch of video from that I am editing. Even more recently I have been using my iPhone 4s to shoot what I understand is 1080p HD video. In all cases I usually keep clips short because I have learned the larger the clip the harder it is to work with for various reasons. One day maybe I can afford a Digital SLR with video capabilities. But for now this is it.
When editing I don’t use all of those transitions Vegas gives you. Usually I either leave black space between appropriate clips, overlap clips by a small amount so they fade in and out of each other, or just bump them together without overlap for the fast cut. I don’t know sorry about the lack of appropriate vocabulary here.
I don’t apply many effects as I know that eats are resources, but I do like to use color curves, and sometimes other minimal effects. I try to keep it pretty simple. But sometimes in my short 3-5 minute videos there are a lot of clips and even pictures I throw in there. I add music and text. That’s pretty much it.
I like to render using MPEG 2 so that I can burn to a DVD easily and I also like to upload to YouTube for friends and family to see. When uploading to YouTube I would like it to be at least 720p. What’s the point of having an HD camera if no one ever gets to see at least 720p quality video?
One last thing. I have read suggestions about multiple hard drives. I have multiple hard drives available but have been storing my files and rendering files on the same hard drive that is my internal HDD. But I do have a drive connected by USB and one that network attached storage (NAS). Any suggestions on where I should store files and rendered files would be helpful too, because I’m a little confused on that. I always assumed it was best to have both on my internal HDD as it was the easiest to access and the fastest.
Here’s one last thing. These are the render settings I have been using through trial and error:
Save as type MPEG-2 mpg, m2v, m2t, mpa
Template HDV 720-30p
Audio 384kbps 48,000 Hz 16 bit stereo MPEG
Video 29.970 fps, 1280×720 Progressive YUV, 18.3 Mbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio 1.000Oh, one last thing I thought about upgrading to a higher performance graphics card. Someone suggested a GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Would this help me at all?
Thanks for anyone’s help I would love to get back to my favorite hobby.
Thanks,
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When it gives you the error can you click on details?
This can give you some idea of what is causing the problem. I had the same thing happen after installing a midi controller. (presonus faderport). I have 32GB ram so I knew it couldn’t be memory.
clicking the details button helped me find the culprit. I uninstalled the drivers and reset midi to default and all is good again.hope that helps
Dave
https://www.solidmedia.ieMacbook Pro 17″ i7 2.2 8GB
iMac i7 2.8 16GB
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Thanks for responding Dave.
When I get the error message it doesn’t give an option for details or a report of any kind. But the first time I tried to replicate the issue to answer your question I got a different error and it booted me out of Vegas.
It displayed the following
The second time I tried to render it gave me the usual error message about memory, but as I said no details or report.
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Try reducing your 18.3 Mbps bitrate to 4-5Mbps with 2-pass VBR interlaced procedure…this might help. I also encountered this glitch when I saved my project output in the desktop. Maybe your output was saved in a low-storage partition.
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