Virtual Memory Running Low??

[John Rofrano]

And I just noticed that I am running Vegas Pro 9.0b, not c! Could that be part of it?

Vegas Pro 9.0 has had it’s share of memory problems while rendering. I would definitely upgrade to 9.0c and see if that fixes things.

I did make the chnages in prefs as suggested and this time it got to 33 mins (6.3GB) and gave me the following error:

“Error occured while creating media file xxxx.mt2
Reason for error could not be determind”

If vegas can’t determine what the error is I doubt that we can. Since 2 rendering threads got you further, try setting the rendering threads down to 1. That might get you all the way. The less threads, the longer it will take but that’s the price of not having enough memory.

Yes, there is no upgrade path from XP to Windows 7 (only from Vista to Win 7). It is a huge undertaking but the rewards of going 64-bit are worth it.

~jr

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[Ken Bennett]

I’ll upgrade in the morning and see what happens. But let’s backup first. I decided to move to Vegas because of Douglas (Spotted Eagle) and my friend Eugene (who suddenly passed away last year). I started with Pro 8. Only did very small things like generate slow-motion clips. Pro 8 states it works in XP, SP2 (I may still be at SP2-I’ll check) and about 2GB of memory. Then I upgraded to Pro 9 and a few weeks ago started my first full project; a wedding. The final edit runs about 90 mins. I haven’t even cracked open DVD Architect yet. I need to take this project back into SpeedEDIT to do a few things and then encode it for 16:9 SD DVD. Once I learn a few more things in Vegas, I won’t need to go this route. I can stay in Vegas start to finish.

The computer was custom built and never had a memory issue. In SE I can render a 160 min project, uncompressed into a single file with no memory issues. A 160 min project would take up about 160GB of disk space. I have plenty of disk space. The computer was setup with 2 processors, 8 cores and 4GB of memory. How XP “sees” the memory, how it accesses the memory is all Greek to me. The bottom line is I had no memory issues.

So, is Vegas accessing the memory differently than the other programs on this computer? They keep telling me this is a very powerful computer. Then the question of 32bit and 64bit keeps coming up. Should my Pro 9c be setup for 32 or 64? What other factors come into play? Does 64 only work in Win 7? When I upgraded to Pro 9 there was no Win 7.

So my question is, without purchasing anything new right now, what are my options? What reconfigurations should be made to the computer? Or should I just go back and use Pro 8? I’m a video producer, not a computer guru. That’s way I rely on feedback from posts on this forum.

The last question I have is “what is the standard work flow in Vegas from captures to DVD and Blu-ray burning?”

Thanks for any direction.

Ken Bennett
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