Vegas Lag

[Jerry Waters]

What are your preview settings? With HD you usually have to run Preview – Auto (or a quarter) to get a decent running preview. In Full – Best it will lag. Sometimes you have to go Tools – Build dynamic ram to see you are in sync. In Vegas it is all about the processor speed. It doesn’t use the video card.

[Rick Mac]

[Brian Bilgen] “under the assumption i could drop discs in and edit”

I hope that you transfered the footage from your camcoder
to your hard drive. If you are trying to edit directly from your DVD that would explain the lag. Your DVD cannot move the data fast enough..

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Brian Bilgen]

Thanks, I tried preview under each setting and I still continue to have problems with it being “Choppy”. It seems like it gets worse as more footage is added to the timeline.

So you know there is a total of 3 minutes and 44 seconds of footage I have on the timeline so it is nothing ridiculous.

Would I not have this problem if I were using the previous version of Vegas that does not support HD capability? Since my camera is DVD based I am not editing HD footage anyways, I guess what I am getting at is this software overkill for me and my computer?

I also tried to adjust the “dynamic ram” under tools but I haven’t had much luck with this either.

Thanks.

[Brian Bilgen]

thanks Rick,

Yes I put it on my hard drive and imported in to Vegas. It was one file at just over 3 minutes. I have tried other files from different discs and run into the same problem.

Thanks though, one more check I can cross off.

[Rick Mac]

Here is another one to check. Forgive me if it sounds
to basic.
You should be putting your video media on a seperate drive than your operating system. Your preview settings should be
“Preview Auto”.

By the way what type of file is this? HDV MPEG? What Codec?

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Brian Bilgen]

Hey Rick, No offense taken I know somethings are easily overlooked, or done incorrectly, so I definitely don’t mind checking the basics.

First the files I am trying to import into Vegas are .vod files from the DVD I originally recorded onto.

As far as putting media on a seperate drive than the operating system, I am not sure I understand or are 100% clear on what you mean. I have my OS, (Windows Vista) on the C: drive. I copied my video from the camcorder DVD into a folder named “Video” on my C: drive.

Are you saying that I need a seperate hard drive that in theory has nothing but video footage stored on it?

[Allen Zagel]

You really don’t ever want to put video files on your C drive. That’s your system drive.

I got all my software installed on my C drive, maybe a few photos, but I have 3 internal hard drive’s a well as 2 external. My external hard drives (firewire connection) are for storing my unused or finished video files. I don’t even like editing files from an external HD.

One of my other internal drives have my video folders. Putting video files on your system drive can be causing your problems.

Also you mentioned VOD files. Don’t you mean VOB?
Allen

[Brian Bilgen]

Hmmm…..

I have a hard drive from the computer I just uprgraded from I could try and install onto my new computer.

Would there be any minimum specs that the secondary hard drive would need to meet?

[Brian Bilgen]

and sorry yes I mean .vob files

[Mike Kujbida]

Typical recommendations are a 7200 rpm drive that is set to (at least) DMA mode, preferably UDMA.
BTW, due to their very nature, I’ve always found files from a miniDVD camcorder to be the absolute worst to edit with and have learned to put up with the slow response time.