Bob Peterson
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Partitions do not alleviate the problem which is excessive movement of the disc heads. At least one additional drive would help a lot. Two would be better. If they cannot be added internally, external drives should work. It would help to describe the computer more completely. What processor, how much memory, size of and free space on drives, video card, etc.
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Assuming this is the veg file for your project, there could have been a windows problem copying the file. If, for example, you used a flash drive to transfer the file, perhaps you did not safely remove the hardware from Windows before unplugging the flash drive. That can leave an incomplete file.
Is the project still OK on your desktop at home?
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I’m running SPV 12 build 770, and do not have this problem. What sound device are you using in Vegas? Perhaps a sound card or mobo driver has not been installed in Windows?
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Sorry, but it is not obvious. If you disable a setting and do not take the time to view the rendered result in a fair amount of detail, you have proved nothing. There could be many explanations for why your observation of the render time is that the time has not changed.
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I would not describe the keypad as “off”. If the numlock is off, the keys on the keypad revert to their primary functions which are cursor control, page up, page down, etc. That goes back to the first IBM PC which did not have dedicated keys for cursor control, insert, delete, etc.
When I explored Vegas’s behavior, I wondered if this did not harken back to those old days, since the 8/2 combination harkens back to the old cursor control. However, the 1/3 key usage does not match (it should have been 4/6), so I can’t guess why the developers used those keys.
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It works for me as well. Interesting that 4/6 look like they do the same thing as 1/3.
BTW, my number lock is on.
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I hate to say this, but this is Computer Use 100. When you finish for a day, you BACK UP your veg file. You also BACK UP any other file that you altered during the day. Perhaps, you edited your source audio file. You can then recover from this kind of error. I hate to have to redo my work.
I routinely back up both the veg and the bak file.
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I’m missing it. How are you changing a photo’s opacity? I know about opacity envelopes, but it does not sound like that is what you are doing. If you are using an Fx, copy the event with the Fx. Then select all the other events (photos). Right click and select Paste Event Attributes.
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I ran the test although I did not want to spend an undue amount of time, so I simply eyeballed the frame rate. I should say that I am running SVP 12. Without the GPU, I got about .4 fps with Best Full, and about 1.3fps with Preview Full. With GPU support, I got about 1.5 fps with Best Full, and about 12.5fps with Preview Full. My graphics card is an Nvidia GEforce 9800 GT.
None of these frame rates would be acceptable to me, and it is not a surprise to me that, if enough processing is added, Vegas will be very slow. I’ve been there, and done that. I will say that an increase from .4 to 1.5 seems negligible to me, but I do see your point. If I lived in the world of this test, I would join Nick in looking for a new NLE. Fortunately, I do not. I defer as much of the heavy processing as possible in the development of projects, and the only time I use Best Full is when I want to get a good screen shot.
I will say, however, that, if we are still talking about a render (meaning the creation of an encoded file), my pain threshold would be substantially higher.
Also, I am curious. How does Premiere Pro fare with this test? Is it significantly better than SVP? Is it enough better that moving to it from SVP is justified?
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I don’t spend my time doing nothing, but look at a computer screen. That would be dumb. While a render is running, there many other things to do. I can do many other things on the computer while the render is processing. I can take a walk. I can think and plan. I can read a book. I can talk to people. It was not that long ago that renders were left to run all night, and that was what they did. Now, mine typically take about two times the length of the video. So two hours for a one hour video. How much would that two hours be reduced by using a GPU?
I save far more time editing because SVP does what I want it to do without a lot of hassle. Premiere Pro does not. I gain a ton of advantages from SVP, and lose nothing to rendering time. If that is not your experience, perhaps a different editor would be a better choice for you. On top of that, I save a ton of money because I don’t pay a monthly fee to use the software.