Bob Peterson
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Ok. I’ve always suspected that Apple deliberately crippled Quick Time on Windows for this very reason. Apple has never wanted to work across platforms even back in the early days. A bit like Sony. Once you buy into a product, you have to get everything, both hardware and software, from Apple because that’s the only way it will really work.
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You did not tell us what the specs on your computer are. You did say there is 8GB of memory. Most people recommend at least 16GB, so it sounds like the machine may be underpowered.
It was definitely a good move to turn off the option to close files when Vegas loses focus. This almost certainly was the cause of the increasingly slower return to Vegas as the number of files increased. It may also have played a large role in causing Vegas to crash.
Many people break up large projects by using nested veg files. That technique may work better than trying to generate proxies. If you do use proxies, you might want to check VASST. I’m pretty sure that they have software will manage the generation and use of proxies for you. John Rofrano knows much more about this than I do.
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It sounds like the drive is bad. I would not attempt to rebuild it since, with a malfunctioning drive, a rebuild may do more harm than good. I would replace it with a new drive, and then attempt to salvage any data files from the old drive. I would never trust the old drive again. When all is said and done, and assuming you lack a system backup, it may be necessary to completely reinstall Windows. In the future, Acronis True Image is an excellent way to prevent this kind of problem.
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Your machine is not fast enough for what you are trying to do. It could be the source video file, it could be filters being applied to the video, it could be settings, and it is almost certainly an underpowered machine. The tip off is the frame rate which was jumping around, and, in the section of the video I looked it, was about 6 frames per second. It is jumping because the audio is moving at full speed, so Vegas occasionally jumps past a section of the video to get the video caught up with where the audio is playing. In other words, it is struggling to keep the audio and video synchronized, but cannot do it because it does not have the processing power to play the video that fast.
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For future reference, all you had to do was replace the audio file in Project Media. That would also have replaced all uses of the file on the time line with the new file.
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The answer is no. Vegas supports traditional methods in the trimmer window, but it not geared to traditional methods of editing by cutting and splicing. That is part of what an NLE is. It does not depend on linear operations. I find it far simpler to simply edit on the time line. If I want to remove a section from a video clip, I simply split the clip in the middle of the unwanted section, drag the edge of the left half back to remove the unwanted material, drag the edge of the right half forward as necessary, and drag the remaining portion of the clip back so that the two halves connect. It sounds harder than it is to do. The advantage is that I can always readjust the “split position” forward or backward as necessary because nothing was ever deleted from the clip.
Retaining the “cut” material does not cost anything because Vegas never permanently alters to source material anyway.
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I am on SVP 12, and, like everyone else, the trimmer window behaves like you want it to although there is one exception. The loop area is selected by the “a” key. As long as the loop selection remains, the cursor will continue to repeat the loop in the trimmer each time the “L” key is pressed. So, I think that aspect of the problem you are describing is simply normal behavior. I can clear the selection by pressing the “K” key when the cursor is not stopped at the end point of the loop. So, it looks like you must manually reposition the cursor in the trimmer window after the paste is made even when things are acting as you expect.
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The long time pattern in computing is more capability at a lower cost. It sounds like this card is an example of that.
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Try turning off the GPU rendering. Vegas may not be making good use of your video card, and the CPU will render much faster than the GPU.
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Apple TV? Point made.