Chris Young
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Howard ~
Occasionally I see this and it’s usually after having been on the system for some hours. Running 2 Gig ram and yet when I check system resources or check Task Manager there is ample physical ram/memory left so what this message means is that the system is low on ‘Virtual Memory’. I sometimes see it when I am using Sound Forge in conjunction with Vegas and doing some intense audio work.
With a bit of further investigation I think you will find changing your ‘Virtual Memory’ settings may supply the answer to your problem. To get a better overview of this problem have a look at:
https://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php
Read the whole page but make sure you check the very bottom of that page under the heading ‘Problems with virtual memory’. Increasing your ‘virtual memory’ may solve your problems. I am led to believe that under XP you don’t have to allocate a ‘virtual memory’ to additional drives. This used to be the common practice under NT to minimise the ‘out of memory’ problem.
To alter these settings go to ‘control panel’ select ‘system’ under system properties select ‘advanced’ where you will find a ‘performance dialogue’ with a ‘settings’ button. Click this and it will take you to ‘performance options’, under this you can select the ‘advanced’ tab and at the bottom of this dialogue you will find a ‘virtual memory’ dialogue with a ‘change’ button. Select this and increase you virtual memory. Generally the less system ram you have the bigger this needs to be. More than likely this will solve your problem, if not you may have to increase your
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My two cents worth.
Am using a Toshiba ‘Qosmio’ G10, Pentium M 2 Gig Centrino, 2 x 80 Gig drives, 1 Gig ram (can go to 2G), Nvidia GeForce FX Go5700 display with 128 ram, 8 x dual layer burner on our ‘portable’ system. It runs V6 very well. Couple that with a WD 8 Mb cache, 200 Gig external firewire drive and you have a pretty powerful little combo. It runs WinXP ‘Media Centre’ OS which seems to have no problem with V5 or V6. It has a very good 17″ screen especially designed for video and DVD presentation. It also has Component, YC and Composite out. All in all no complaints. Had a Vaio previously and when compared to Sony’s latest VGNA39GP Vaio (if available USA) the Toshiba topped out with the best specs. Was very happy with the Vaio but this ‘Qosmio’ thing is by far the best laptop I have seen for close to desktop type performance in an edit situation.
As previously mentioned the performance isn’t quite up to a P4 but very close on most benchmark tests. As far as power goes it consumes 21 watts as opposed to 100 for the P4 and runs way, way cooler. Both it and the Vaio are at the ‘big’ end so they are fairly chunky units. I believe the Vaio would be a good unit so I guess you takes your ‘pick’. Neither are cheap here in Oz but I felt it worth the expense because I hate slow procs when editing.
Chris Young
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Hi Leslie ~
New Comp eh! Could be worth the move to 6.0 then. I have V6 on one system, just getting used to it before it goes onto the main Vegas box for daily work. Only spent a little time with it to date as have been busy with work. From what I see its going forward with big improvments in its media management, which was a weak point with V5 and earlier. Ther are a host of other minor improvments plus the big thing of nesting Veg projects into other jobs. Faster rendering as well with re-written code to fully use dual processors and multi-threading. To get the best out of this you need minimum a 3.2/3.6 Gig P4 which are pseudo duals or best a dual proc Xeon. Give either one a fast raid system and then Vegas flys. A good SATA raid works well and doesn’t cost the earth. Let me know when you are in Syd next, catch up for coffee or lunch.
Cheers
Chris Young
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Johnny ~
Check out the following link.
https://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=31596
It’s an article by Keith Kolbo and it’s pretty concise and spot on. It will give you a pretty good rundown on how to pull the best chroma keys out of Vegas. Follow his advice and you won’t go far wrong. As Steve says lighting is the most important point.
Chris Young
Sydney -
Leslie ~
Meant to add there is no quality loss in the copy process as it is just a straight native data copy of the selected pieces.
Cheers
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Hi Leslie ~
Long time no see! Bit of a work around but you could do the following, sort of a consolidation thing.
Place all the clips you require onto a timeline. Or a number of timelines if you want to categorise them. Next ‘Save as’ giving them some kind of easy to track ‘description’ in their Veg file names. BUT, important here, when you save them select the ‘Copy and trim media with project’ checkbox. This will take you to another dialogue box the ‘Copy media options’ box where you can select ‘Create trimmed copies of source media’, select the extra head/tails that you require on the copied media and choose your destination directory/drive wherever. This will make NEW copies of all the selected media in the timelines plus the extra handles to the new destination. Once you have done this you can delete of all the original media. I do this quite often on a weekly TV show where we might have around five to six hours of material per one-hour show. In our case this also saves all the graphics, music trax, voice-overs etc, the lot in other words. In a new project you can create new bins based on the ‘descriptions’ from the saved Veg files and import the copied media. It sure frees up a heap of space and is quite quick to do.
Cheers
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney -
Ed, Doug ~
Thanks for the heads up. The ‘still pic’ mode is what I have used previously but I do like Ed’s method. I had previously used the velocity envelopes for speed ramps but never thought of using it for a freeze, you live and learn. Thanks again.
Chris Young
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Worked it out. Discovered it was ‘loop’ under ‘edit details’. Thanks to Tim Duncan funnily enough. It was his reply to the post ‘Event duration’ that got me looking under the ‘edit details’ dialogue.
Chris Young
Sydney -
It has been done, the request that is. We use a massive amount of DVC Pro 25/50 and nothing would make us happier than to see Panasonic support. If we don’t get it Vegas will be left behind. Native DVC support over firewire would be brilliant. Various flavours of DVC Pro are now supported by FCP, Avid, Pinnacle and Canopus. It would be a shame to see Vegas miss out on further penetration into the pro post market because it is Sony product based on the premise that they don’t want to support anything from the Panasonic opposition. Surely they wouldn’t be that petty and think like that? Would they? If they are serious about Vegas as a ‘Pro’ tool it will come.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Good work around Rob!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney