Turning off preview window

[Al Bergstein]

Having just dealt with this last week, I can tell you *why* you would need to do it.

I have been redoing a video I edited in Vegas 11 for a client. Upgraded to 12 to stay current. Did the editing. No crashes on the normal A/B timeline using both AVCHD and MOV (5D) and GoPro footage. When I started adding simple titles etc. to the timeline, using new tracks for both the titles and the graphics the crashing of old started all over again (I’m working with the latest download of 12, build 726, which some people claim is “stable”).

So I turned off GPU processing on my Nvidea GTX 570 card with driver 311.06, (which is on the list of supported cards and software of Vegas’s web site). Surprise surprise. All my crashes stopped happening. So to be clear, I’m working with the CPU (i7, 16GBs RAM, Windows 7 64) doing all the work. For kicks, I turn the GPU back on and the crashing starts happening again.

Now I finish the project, with the GPU off and go to render. It’s a 15 minute video, I tried rendering it to SD and HD 720p with the video preview window on. Each time, and this is reproduceable, the rendering gets about halfway through, and freezes. I go out for dinner, come back, still locked at whatever, 42% or 38% something.

I decide to close the video preview window, click to get rid of it, and then re-render, and what do you know, I get through rendering on both SD and HD without a problem.

By the way, Dynamic RAM preview is set to 1024, Max rendering threads to 16.

Steve, do you have a special version of Vegas 12? I don’t see an “internal” tab under my preferences. It’s the only one that’s missing.

So I’m glad to see this thread, I’ll know how to do this from the menus in the future. Thanks!

Al

[Ralph Hajik]

Vegas Pro Experts,

Thanks again for your answers and once again I have learned something new in Sony Vegas Pro12. This is what CreativeCow is all about.

Ralph Hajik 🙂 Moooo!

Happy Travels
https://www.RJTravelMedia.com

[Stephen Mann]

Have you turned off GPU support for the preview?

[Stephen Mann]

“Steve, do you have a special version of Vegas 12? I don’t see an “internal” tab under my preferences. It’s the only one that’s missing. ”
Hold the shift key when you click on Preferences.

WARNING – Changing entries in the Internals tab can truly screw up Vegas.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Al Bergstein]

The ‘Show Progress In Video Preview Window” is located in a different part of the INTERNAL menu on Version 12. It’s about half way down the elevator bar, under the section that starts with settings called:
DefVidTrackRed

Not sure, Steve, who your question was posed to, but if you were asking me, yes, I’ve turned off the Video GPU useage.

Al

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Guys,

I turned my GPU off and now my computer is super fast even with the preview window on. For an 1hr:23 minutes:50sec video rendered to mpg took roughly 23 minutes:40 sec to finish. I have plenty of pictures, video and transitions in this video.There was no freezing, errors or crashes during the render. So far so good. Thanks for the info on how to get to the Internal Tab in preferences.

Ralph Hajik

Happy Travels
https://www.RJTravelMedia.com