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vegas runs really slow! are there any known compatibility problems with any hardware?
sorry for those of you who might of read this already but under the old title it didnt get much of a responce so ive made the title more specific making it sound like less of a silly noob question! lol plus i updated a few bits and added some more info!
for some reason my preview and genral running of vegas is lagging really badly. doing simple tasks such as over lapping two clips with no effects makes the preview skips 50 – 100+ frames at a time most of the settings are factory settings. apart from a few i changed to see if i could save as much of the proessing power as could.
even stranger is some problems have gotten worse i have one clip running by itself will only a color correction effect and to do a dynamic ram preiew takes more then ten munites for a 15 second peice of footage.
this is the case with vegas 7 and 6 so it’s not the version im using. my pc is a p4 2.4ghz processer 2gigs of ram. a sound blaster x-fi plat sound card and a 6800gs 256mg gddr3 ram gfx card. so the power of my pc shouldn’t be a problem i know a friend of mine runs his vegas with no problems and his pc is 1.8ghz and only 512ram with only onboard sound and a 128 drr gfx card. are there any known problems with vegas and the 2 cards i use?
i have recently tried the trail copy of adobe premiere pro 2.0 and that runs without a hitch stangley it sould be slower considering te minimum requirements between the 2 progammes. but i like vegas and dont want to swap when i know the programme should work!
ive been through all the trouble shooting and everything is perfect there is no reason for this to happen. i even downloaded the .net framework 2.0 just incase that might of been the problem. im not even using hd infact im using the lowest quality the program can use and ive even turned off the view waveforms and frames to save processing power.
my computer is completely spyware and virus free my hard drive has been defragged my registry is error free i just cant think of any other reason why vegas is behaving so poorly on my computer!
if any one can help me i would be reatful! thank you
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Hi,
I had some problems with vegas on 2 different PC’s a year ago. My problem was that the preview was sort of jumping once in a while, as if there was not enough power. I had 3.2 and 2.4 GHz machines with 1.5 and 2.0 GB ram, different graphicscards and diferent harddrives etc. Both PC’s had genuie Intel boards with 925 chipset. I tried to mix the hardware from the 2, still the same both in ver. 6 and 7.
Now I have upgraded both PC’s one to dualcore and one to core 2 duo, both with ASUS boards – both recommended or tested with Vegas. I have only tried the dual core until now, but it seems to be ok.
I can only conclude that my trouble was motherboard related. Back when I first had my problems, I had a lot of communication with support, and the sony forum. A lot of helhfull people came with all kinds of good ideas for a solution, but nothing worked.
I am not sure that your problems are related to mine back then, but perhaps it can give you some ideas.
Godd luck hope you get it sorted out…
Rgds.
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thanks i was wondering if it might be motherboard related im using a gigabyte GA 8IG1000 pro-g with a 800mhz frontside bus. not the most powerful lol but diffinately fast enough to run vegas.
do you know where i could find that list you mentioned of compatible motherboards?
thanks
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I have the 6800 card, and an on-board Soundblaster (can’t remember which, and won’t be in front of my PC for a while). When you are running Vegas, what amount of CPU is it using? Check the Task Manager, also check how much memory it is using.
If Vegas is using 100% CPU while doing this, then there is something wrong, more likely it is not, which would indicate it is waiting for something to happen, something that takes a long time. Hard to diagnose without sitting in front of the PC.
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if you mean is it using 100% while the vegas is just sitting there doing nothing no. but if i press play it uses around 90%-100% yes! the pc really struggles to do even realy simple things.
ulf semed to think it was a motherbord problem but his problem seemed rather mild in comarrison to mine funnily we both had around the same kind of power of pc. his pc only skipped frames every so often.
mine just doesnt stop skipping you would think i had a 333mhz machine it’s struggling so bad! if the problem was only occisonal it wouldn’t really bother me.
what kind of power should it be using o the processer?
cheers
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Hi Luke,
I just did some test on my test PC, a 3.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB AGP card – nothing fancy today.
When I playback DV material without any effects etc. my CPU usage is 8-15%.
If you get 100% there is something wrong with your setup. Have you had this trouble always or has it just surfaced?
Have you tried to e-mail the support?
/Ulf
Rgds.
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Hi Luke
I had the same problem when i first changed from V5 to V6, which i found very strange seen as i’m running a dual amd 2800MP machine. Have you downloaded the latest updates for either version, also i found that i had to set my ram usage low in the prefences, I also turned off the media manager. once i had done that V6 worked fine and hasn’t given me a problem since.
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The footage you are playing back, was this captured with Vegas? I have seen a couple of instances with footage that was captured by another app, Canopus in this case, putting heavy CPU load, like 65-75%, on a PAL Vegas system and when I checked this out the footage was listed as upper field first. The same footage recaptured with Vegas then came in as lower field first and the CPU load dropped, as mentioned in one of the other replies, to around 10-15%. Like the other reply I am using Asus MOBO’s on two units and not a problem. You don’t have any antivirus or disc defraggers running in the background at the same time do you? Some antivirus programs by default constantly monitor file access by other programs and if this is happening it can cause major CPU usage and slowdown. Auto defragging can also cause similar problems. Can’t think of much else to suggest!
Chris Young
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thank you! you solved my problem id compressed the video files to mpg4 to save on hard disk space as i have a fair bit of video. so using uncompressed files it runs fine. but this does take up one hell of a lot of disk space
so is there anyway of using the capture feature in vegas to change my videos to the vegas format directly fom my hard drive as i know longer have alot of the video on the camara,
i really dont want go through the nightmare process of loading everything back on to the camara and back through vegas as it would take forever! not to mention i dont think have the right connector for my video card atm.
or if any one knows a good video converter that will change files into dvsd DVC/DV Video format from uncompressed rgb!that would be great
thanks
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Yes, understand the problem now. MPEG files requires a lot of grunt to decode realtime for editing. Have a look at MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5. I think it can convert MPEG4 to DV, not 100% sure but it’s worth a look as it will convert most formats to most formats. If not check around the web as there is sure to be some app somewhere that can do the job for you. Streamclips URL is:
Chris Young
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Hi
I have the very same problems, I am only doing a slide show with jpgs and it is so slow to do anything in it at all. i have gone back to doing it in Version 6 and all fine
I have tried every thing I can think off all have made no differance
I have noticed that the old Hard drive light is going and can hear it going not sure why
Peter
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