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Vegas 10 and big clips
I have about 10-12 4GB clips to use in a project, and when I try to select them all in the explorer window, to then right-click and “add to project media” but when I select them all at once, Vegas hangs for quite a while, sometimes even crashes. I could select each one individually and drop them into the timeline, but that still takes quite a while and seems counterproductive.
Is there some setting I could change to stop Vegas from analyzing each clip or whatever it is doing that bogs it down so? Or is this simply a matter of having too many large clips and maybe not enough RAM or system resources?
Thanks!!!
Rob -
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Vegas needs to build audio wave previews when you drop a file on the timeline so this lag is unavoidable. When I start a new project I usually drop all the files into the timeline and then go get coffee while Vegas creates it’s files. You can cancel this but then you don’t see the audio waves which I rely on a lot for editing.
You could also drop all of the files into the Project Media and then drag them out onto the timeline one at a time as you use them.
~jr
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I have the same issue with waiting, sometime I do it before a lunch or dinner break…it can take a LONG time with long clips (often I may have 5 or more clips running longer than 2 hrs). Patience is something I have had to learn in NLE…..
Scott Francis
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Ok, well, thanks guys. I guess I haven’t been dealing with these large 1920×1080 clips much. Patience is a virtue, apparently, when it comes to editing in 2010.
Thanks again,
Rob -
Yeah I gave up on using large 4GB files in Vegas 10 and went back to Vegas 8. Vegas 10 hangs horribly just by clicking on any of them in the file explorer. I can sometimes get one file to import after hanging for a long time but I can’t get multiple files to import. Vegas will either hang for a long long time until I kill it or will crash.
Everything works just fine in 8 and I’m hoping 10 is fixed.
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You might want to check if your antivirus software is running/interferring with the wave form generation process. I routinely drop 8 hours of 1440 x 1080/50i footage (anywhere from 100MB to 13GB files) onto the timeline in Vegas 10, no problem, and get a cup of coffee. A big one. It takes about 45 minutes to an hour to build the wave forms.
Are you pulling your files from a USB 2.0 drive or from the C: drive by any chance? The former is slow in terms of speed it can read at to build the audio wave form, and the latter is not recommended as you are competing with Windows system operations.
Lastly, what type of clips are you attempting to import? NXCAM on SVP 9 was extremely slow to import, but it is a breeze on SVP 10.
Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1
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This seems to have always been an issue, not just in v10. It takes a long time for many files to be added to a project, even before the audio waveforms begin to build.
-Jim.
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I have vegas 7 and vegas 10 and v7 opens huffyuv and lagarith encoded avi files immediately. As I drag them from explorer to the timeline the black outlines appear and when I release the mouse the video is displayed and the peaks are then built. On v10 dragging onto the timeline I see nothing and then maybe 20 seconds later vegas starts displaying the video and creating the peak files. There is a definite lack of responsiveness and quite a lot of hard drive thrashing in v10 which does not occur in v7. This is on both win 7 64 and xp 32. After loading a project in v10 which might take a minute or more and then quitting vegas and running it again I find the project opens immediately. Upon rebooting the computer I have the same slowdown opening the project again. It’s frustrating that something that worked so well and so smoothly in a previous version is now a slow and crash prone process.
Matt
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I just bought Vegas 10 and i had no trouble using it until I went to import a large .avi clip. I can’t even click the name to import it. The second I get to the proper folder to click the file a message pops up saying that Vegas has stopped working. I can cheat this slightly by instead starting with the file and saying ‘open with vegas’. But since I have two files I need this doesn’t seem favorable.
I then tried cutting the clips into smaller files but still it stops working. The shorter clips were about 3 minutes each and it stops working before I can even click the clip in the import media window. Any ideas on what to do?
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