[Dave Lozinski]

[Trevor Epding] “Do you have any idea when Vegas 11 might be available?”

No idea. You have to check the source:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com

Probably towards the end of Sept, but definitely by the end of Oct if they follow previous years.

[Trevor Epding] “With that in mind Dave, I am assuming it will still run in Windows 7??”

I wouldn’t assume that.
I do not know and wouldn’t know unless someone else who’s running Vegas 6 has installed it on Windows 7.

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[Dave Lozinski]

This happened to me a while ago and it turned out it was fonts that weren’t correct TTF.

When I removed those the issue went away.

Those fonts you’re having trouble with — if you have another program like Photoshop try loading them up in an image there and see what happens. What I did to discover which fonts were bad is used the down-cursor to scroll through the fonts. When it would no longer change that font was a trouble-maker and zapped from my system.

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[Dave Lozinski]

Personally, I would just go and purchase Vegas 10. I haven’t worked in a version prior to 8, but 10 hasn’t changed much from 8, and 8 was a breeze to pick up (having never done video editing before).

However, I would wait and buy Version 10 just before they release VErsion 11. This is because usually if you buy the older version within a month of the new version being released, they give you a free upgrade.

Thus, you’ll get to fully fledged working copies for one price. 🙂

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com

PS: Vegas 6 isn’t 64 bit, and won’t be able to take advantage of 64-bit architecture.

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[Dave Lozinski]

Hi Brad,

I can’t imagine Sony’s software not being written with a 64-bit architecture since the Vegas Pro software has been 64 bit since version 8 or 9 I believe.

I don’t know much about the AMD processors, but the i7 is a good choice. In just a few weeks, Sony will be releasing their Vegas Pro software which is going to take full advantage of GPU acceleration.

As for the AVD settings question… no idea. Sorry. Hopefully someone else will respond. I use simple point-and-shoot digital cameras to record videos in their HD resolution and then just use them in Vegas Pro without any issues. My default project size is 720×480, but if the footage from a digital camera can shoot in higher HD resolutions, I set the project settings to that.

-Dave

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[Dave Lozinski]

@Charles,

The Seagate drive in that article is NOT the hybrid drive. The hybrid drives are marked as Momentus XT and are usually referenced with hybrid drive.

The one in that article isn’t, which is why you’re confused.

The “16 MB cache memory” is definitely NOT the same as the 4GB static memory the Momentus XT has.

Definitely give more credence to my articles. The one you quoted just marks a regular 7200rpm drive.

And I can speak from experience that the Momentus XT drive is fantastic and definitely a good bang for the buck. 🙂

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[Dave Lozinski]

Bump.

Hopefully one of the experts on here have a word.

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[Dave Lozinski]

See if what’s suggested on this thread resolves your issue:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/208/877493

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[Dave Lozinski]

@Charles:

[Charles Stevens] “How much faster would set up #3 be than set up #1 if I separated read and writes?”

I cannot say for sure as I’ve never done any benchmarks. However, making an educated guess I’d say if you did the read from the single drive (with it defragged) and wrote to the RAID Drive, that would be faster than the opposite if you wrote to the single drive and read from the RAID config.

[Charles Stevens] “Also what happens behind the scenes with reading and writing when I’m editing but not rendering or exporting?”

Do you mean in Vegas or with the actual underlying hardware? If the former, Vegas would just read the data, process it, and show it in the preview window. Vegas won’t do much writing other than if it builds caches when you play the same section over and over.

[Charles Stevens] “If I was constantly copying source files on the drive and deleting then once I’m done with a project, even if the source files were relatively much smaller than the drive and I always had a bunch of free space on the drive, the way SSS writes writes data, would I still quickly fill up the free blocks on the drive and cause it then to slow down in performance?”

I think that’s drive dependent, but I cannot say for sure because that’s beyond the scope of my knowledge. Some drives might be programmed to use up memory in certain order; others might truly be random.

If you did a Google search on the subject you’d know just as much as myself.

Anyway, I hope the rest of my response is able to help some?

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[Dave Lozinski]

@Charles:

I agree with most of what Nigel said, but still went with a laptop with enhancements because of the portability factor.

In terms of upgrades, I had an i7-2820QM put into my laptop for raw processing power.

A lot of laptops come with “power schemes” so people can set the cooling and other things. When plugged in my laptop’s cooling is “active”, but “passive” when on battery. I haven’t had any overheating problems.

Also, my laptop came with a RAID 0 configuration between 2 750GB drives. I removed that. Instead what I did was replace the primary 750GB drive with Seagate’s 500GB Hybrid drive. I have just my OS and programs on there in a 200GB partition. The remaining space is filled with my music and local host website (neither of which are used much). The other internal drive is where I do all my media work on (yes, not ideal but I’m not in James Cameron’s position either 🙂 ).

The 750GB disk I removed I now use as a portable USB 3.0 drive.

While not as fast as an SSD, the hybrid drive boots up my laptop in a ridiculously short amount of time to the login screen. Then it only takes about 5 seconds after I type in my password before the system is rearing and ready to go!

I have Vegas 10 and Photoshop CS5 in the programs folder on my hybrid drive, and neither takes more than a few seconds (literally) to load up and be ready. This is because I use them so much the hybrid drive has copied them to the “memory” part of the drive.

Here is a good article to read which does comparisons between SSDs, the Hybrid, and traditional drives:
https://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5818&p=1

Notice that according to this article the Hybrid drive, on average, is only 6 seconds slower to boot windows than the fastest SSD drive they used. So you have to ask yourself, with the price-per-gb is the SSD’s cost/performance really worth 6 seconds of boot time if you’re mainly just going to use it as the OS drive?

Another article worth reading which also compares Photoshop times:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd

Lastly (as if you haven’t had enough to read already! 🙂 ), here’s an article on how to partition your drives to increase performance as well. I’ve had fantastic results with this:
https://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/442289-partitioning-performance-hitachi-7k500-benchmark-setup-specifics.html#post5617217

Hope this helps!

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[Dave Lozinski]

These videos don’t have pictures moving around the screen, but does montages in sync to music.

This video has a montage that starts around the 1:20 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6lFX2Aefk

Here’s another where it starts around the 0:50 second mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LNElX-qf1E

They’re probably not as fast as you would like, but they give you the basic gist.

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