Vegas Pro 8.0 Using Lots Of Disk Space When Rendering

[Jack Watts]

It could be that vegas is using to much memory cahe when previewing thus not allowing for enough memory for a temp file whilst rendering.remember vegas caches a reference for every media piece you use in your comp,Check your memory preferences.

[Mike Kujbida]

Unless you’ve changed the file locations in Vegas, the default is C:\My Documents.
If you have a small drive C, it’s easy to fill this up.
The 2 file location options are in Properties (File-Properties – Prerendered files folder) and Options-Preferences (Temporary files folder.

[David Berk]

Thanks for your quick response.I checked in Vegas Pro for memory settings only setting i found was in preferences-video-Dynamic RAM preview max MB….any sugestions on how low i can set that? right now its at 64mb

[David Berk]

Thanks for your quick response….Yes i cleaned that folder but still did not recover much disk space. Hopefully changing the Dynamic Ram Preview Max MB will help also

[Theo Van laar]

“Yes i cleaned that folder but still did not recover much disk space.”

Did you also emty the recycle bin? And after emtying the recycle bin, did you also remove the “secured files”, which are e.g kept by Norton?

Theo

[David Berk]

I always keep my recycle bin clean and i do not have Norton. I started rendering a video this afternoon “after setting” options-preferences-video-Dynamic Ram Preview Max MB to “0” I did regain 6 gigs of hard drive space after that change but when rendering started you can watch the disk space on my C drive eat up and down to windows “low disk space warning” Rendering was at 90% so i hurriedly deleted any of my old large files i could find.When rendering got to 100% a error message said rendering failed.I did recover all my disk space back after i closed Vegas Pro program though.So it still remains a mystery why its eating so much disk space

[Mike Kujbida]

It sounds to me like you only have one drive in your computer.
To do it right, you really need at least 2 drives, one for your OS and other programs and one (exclusively) for your video projects.
What I think is happening is that your page file keeps increasing until it maxes out and starts to give you the grief you’re experiencing.

How big is your hard drive?
Are you running XP or Vista?
What’s your CPU?
How much RAM do you have?

[Allen Zagel]

Hi

You have two possible problems.
A. You said you got Norton! There’s problem #1. It’s a resource hog. Most I know that had Norton usually had to re-format their hard drive every year anyway just to “take out the trash”.

B. You got only 1 hard drive. In video editing, tht’s a no-no. General rule is never store your video files on C drive. You realy need to get another large hard drive for your editing files.

Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Paul Morris]

So a better harddrive configuration would look like this…

C Drive: applications/software, for example Vegas

D Drive: clips/captured files/clips that you are editing/jpegs/wavs files etc

E Drive to render your project into (can this be external, if so how fast do write times need to be?)

Is it okay to render to the same physical drive as your project, in this case the ‘D Drive’?

Question: In rendering how much data per second is Vegas processing? I know this will vary from computer to computer but could we render to an external drive, what write speeds are needed?

Thanks.