Dave Osbun
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Does the software show up in the Add/Remove Software window?
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Windows audio device not installed means either your sound card has died (or if you have a PCI sound card, take the side off your computer tower, remove the sound card and reinstall in another PCI slot) or something has corrupted your Windows audio device drivers. Your Windows Event Viewer is your friend in this situation. Look for items with an exclamation point next to them in the Event Viewer. It’ll give you more detailed info on your problem.
Also check the Hardware Device Manager and make sure your sound card/audio chipset (if integrated on the motherboard) is actually showing up and shows as working properly.
Dave
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Vegas has all the codecs you’d ever need (more than likely). By installing other codec packs i’m almost certain that you are replacing Sony’s professional codecs with cheap (ie- crap) versions. If it were me, after uninstalling those extra codec packs, i’d uninstall/reinstall Vegas, just for piece of mind that things are as they should be.
My Sony camera records in the AVCHD format (1080p, 24mb/s) and I have no problem using the video clips right from the SDXC card onto my Vegas timeline (after copying the video clips to my SATA III 7200rpm hard drive).
What happens if you use the video clips in their native format? Vegas Pro should be able to play the files without converting them beforehand. Do they not play at all? Where are these video clips being stored? On an external drive or an internal drive? Since your GPU as the ‘m’ designation, you’re obviously using a laptop. Does this laptop have one internal system drive or two? Is it an SSD drive or an ‘old school’ drive, and what type of drive if it’s an old school drive?
Dave
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I wonder if it is a 4K resolution clip. A built a nice system two years ago for a friend-of-a-friend and he would get “low memory” errors when he started editing 4K (system had 16gb of RAM). I have since swapped out motherboards and he now has 128gb of RAM and is able to edit 4K clips, albeit with no effects as his drives aren’t up to snuff.
Dave
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Either you have hardware issues or something not good in your OS.
If I were you I’d do a reformat and OS reinstall.
At the very least install Vegas on a different system and see if your rendering improves. If so, then your current system has an issue.
Dave
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Depends on your codec, so what you’re seeing is normal.
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Thanks for the input, Mike. My videos are always short in length so I’ve never given thought about running out of disk space. Recently my DVDs have only been jpg files of pictures so my mom can watch old pictures on her television, since her eyesight isn’t what it used to be.
Again, thanks for the tip!
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In your Windows ‘run’ box, type ‘services.MSC’ (without the quotes). Sort the colomn so that all running services show at the top of the list (there will be many). Stop any serbice that isn’t Microsoft relayed, nor related to any hardware you have. Don’t worry as the service will start again on next system boot.
Once you shut down the non-important services (including your malware program), try rendering and see if it is faster.
It would help if you told us what your system render times were when it was running well. What is the CPU? Has it always rendered slow?
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Scott,
Here’s a screenshot of my settings for DVD creation. You can see that I chose constant bit rate, since there’s no reason to select variable bit rate if you’re going to crank every option to max quality:
Dave
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I use the DVD Architect render option and I crank up the minimum and average bitrate settings to max, while enabling two-pass. My DVDs look superb.
If you want a filmic look, best to do that during the editing process with whatever plugin you wish to choose that yields the result you’re looking for.
