Transitions now showing in preview window

[Petroi Teodora]

*not showing*
and
*the video kind of…*
sorry for the mistakes, I just wrote quickly. 😀

[Mike Kujbida]

My guess is that your computer is too slow to handle the footage you’re using and it stumbles when it gets to a transition.
One way around this is to highlight that area and do a RAM render (Shift+b) to see it smoothly.

Next time, please give us any information you can about what type of footage, which version of Vegas, your computer specs, etc. as they help to troubleshoot problems like this.

[John Rofrano]

You may have to increase your Dynamic RAM Preview to see the entire transition using the Shift+B technique that Mike suggested. If you find that Vegas only previews part of the transition and stops, go to Options | Preferences | Video and increase your Dynamic RAM Preview but don’t make it too high as this steals RAM away from other activities like rendering.

~jr

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[Petroi Teodora]

I use SV pro 9. What do you mean by footage and computer specs? 😀 :-s
I really hate this ’cause I want to experiment with transitions and I can’t always render the video, it’s just useless and time consuming! 🙁

[Petroi Teodora]

Thanks, I’ll try to see how it works.

Edit: I put it to 900 (before it was 350) and it’s better, but it’s still slow. At least something it is shown, taking into consideration how it was before…
I guess this change will only affect SV actions, not all my computer actions, right?!

[Mike Kujbida]

“What do you mean by footage and computer specs?”

Footage could be DV, HDV, AVCHD, MOV, etc.
Computer specs are, at a minimum, your machine’s OS, CPU type, amount of RAM and number and size of hard drives.

“I really hate this ’cause I want to experiment with transitions and I can’t always render the video, it’s just useless and time consuming! :(“

That’s why I asked for your computer specs.
An older slower computer trying to edit newer footage such as AVCHD is always going to give you this problem and a RAM render is the quickest way to see what your transitions will look like.

[Danny Hays]

Do you have your previes window set to “Preview/auto”? The quality is a little worse but you may get enough visable frames to see your transitions this way.

[Petroi Teodora]

Yes, it is set to Preview-Auto.

[Petroi Teodora]

I usually work with AVI files (as far as I know, Xvid).
I have 2GB of RAM, 3 hard drives (C – 39GB; D – 96GB and E – 96GB). I use Windows XP and Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU.

[John Rofrano]

[Petroi Teodora] “I usually work with AVI files (as far as I know, Xvid).”

That could be your problem right there. Vegas doesn’t like DivX or Xvid. I would not edit these formats. You might want to consider using a tool like AviDemiux to convert them to M-JPEG with PCM audio so that they edit easier. You will always have crazy problems if you continue to edit Xvid.

~jr

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