What should computer settings be for vegas 7?

[Edward Troxel]

[dpetto] “Things like DMA on or off,”

ON

[dpetto] “do the 1394’s need to be disabled”

No. You use firewire to capture video

[dpetto] “indexing on or off”

I prefer OFF

Edward Troxel

[Randall Raymond]

Create a small partition on your main drive – say 10gig or so – and tell windows to put your page file there (‘D:’ drive) that will help keep fragmentation down and speed things up.

Also make sure to set the size of the page file – 10gig in this example – if you let windows set the size – that will slow things down as it first determines how much room it has to write its temp files.

[Dave Petteruto]

Are there any other settings anyone can think that I should be concerned about? What about memory allocation in Vegas itself?

Thanks
Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

“Create a small partition on your main drive – say 10gig or so – and tell windows to put your page file there (‘D:’ drive) that will help keep fragmentation down and speed things up.

Also make sure to set the size of the page file – 10gig in this example – if you let windows set the size – that will slow things down as it first determines how much room it has to write its temp files. “

How is this done? Is it something that I can do fairly easily with some instruction?

Dave P.

[Edward Troxel]

10 Gig seems extreme for the pagefile. I haven’t had issues letting Windows handle it. It shouldn’t be on the same drive as your video files anyway.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

The defaults are a good start. I would only up the ram preview if you’re needing to do a ram preview on a larger area. Afterwards, I’d take it back to the default.

Edward Troxel

[Randall Raymond]

[dpetto] “How is this done? Is it something that I can do fairly easily with some instruction?”

It’s easily done – but I’m not sure you can add a partition with windows already running. I’ve always done it before installing windows.

I also create a third partition called ‘My Documents’ and use that like a big folder.

If you aren’t running ‘Diskeeper’ – you should. It’s an amazingly effective program to keep all your drives frag-free. Well worth the price of 50 bucks.

[Randall Raymond]

[jeditdv] “10 Gig seems extreme for the pagefile. I haven’t had issues letting Windows handle it. It shouldn’t be on the same drive as your video files anyway.”

I also use the pagefile partition for my downloads and temp files.

My disk is set up like this:

C: windows and programs 100g
F: pagefile 20g
G: all content except video 115g

250g drive total

I have 8 drives total

[Ralph Hajik]

Hello All,

I keep all my running programs on my C drive 250 gig., music on my D drive 250 gig., Veg and rendered DVDA files on my external hard drive 500 gig. I’m working towards appling another drive so I can separate my veg files and my rendered DVDA files.

Ralph Hajik