[Jason Downs]

Thanks John, that sounds promising. I may take a look at that laptop if this one fails to deliver. I’m pretty sure these are just minor issues and mainly operator fault. lol! But, even though my Qosmio is great for media and games I more interested in a laptop that can perform well with Sony Vegas. I couldn’t think of any other better video editor to use. Cheers!

Jase

[Jason Downs]

That’s interesting to know. Thanks for letting me know about your laptop specs. Have you noticed any preview problems with straight raw files or do you convert them first. This is the only problem Ive had but Im starting to think this is mandatory. I don’t have to do this with mp4 files though. I’ve noticed that depending on what file you render in, you get a choice what you can use. I use mainstream concept for mp4 and can select. (CPU, open GL and CUDA.) CUDA is super fast but the quality is poor. In another file type I can select to use GPU.
The Toshiba Qosmio X870 has plenty of power to work with SV and is lightspeed ahead of my old laptop. I’m living it!

[Jason Downs]

Thanks guys, my specs are of those of the Qosmio X870 which should be ample to run Sony Vegas, so that isn’t an issue. What I did discover though, is that SV struggles to handle some video files especially the ones I’m using in my project. I find it can render out mp4 files for previewing quicker than .mov files. Also, I’m not sure if this makes a difference but the frame rates are all different in my project ranging from 24 to 31 frames. (These are apple iPod files). I’ve since found a program to batch process all files into the same frame rate using an Avid codec which has worked well in retaining high quality. These files now run better in SV and now I don’t have to turn off multicore processing.
It’s all worked out well and I’m happy now. I still need to learn a lot about how SV handles different file types but that was my problem from the start. Sorry, just a newb here! He he

[Jason Downs]

After more investigation, I have since found that disabling “multicore processing” in the system bios allows the preview to be seen BUT runs just as slow as on my my original Acer Aspire laptop. lol! You can’t win!!

All I want is a smooth and fast running Sony Vegas without any preview issues or glitches. If you have any suggestions for a laptop that works well with Sony Vegas please let me know? Thanks.

[Jason Downs]

Hi Guys,

I’m 100% sure I have found a solution to this problem and it is very simple and relates to this workaround.

There’s a similar thread about this on the Sony Vegas forum and here’s the workaround, courtesy of Paddy from Sony.

Please navigate to the following folder (make sure hidden files and folders are being shown):

C:Users[your user name]AppDataLocalSonyVegas Pro12.0Media Pool Thumbnails

Select all of the contents of this folder, and delete them. Then launch Vegas again, and you should be back in business.

Basically, I tried this workaround and when I went to open Sony Vegas 12 it opened ok but just “hung” trying to find the thumbnails.

Anyway, I also have Sony Vegas 12 on my other laptop which runs without a problem. Thumbnails and all! BUT!!!!! What I did notice was that there is a .BIN file in the “Media Pool Thumbnails” folder called “media_thumbnail_cache.bin”.

On my working laptop that file is associated to an eeprom program I use to program my RC-Radio Transmitter (Turnigy-9XR.
On the non-working laptop, that file is associated with a video player I use called “VLC MediaPlayer”.

Now, I decided to see if changing it’s association would help so I loaded the eeprom software onto my laptop, changed the “media_thumbnail_cache.bin” association to the eeprom program and Wallah!

Sony Vegas 12 back up and running again!!

I’m convinced this will also work with other versions as I have tested it on (Builds 367,486,770) as well as SV13Pro.

If you would like to test this for yourself then you can either change the association to another program or install the eeprom software I used from here: https://code.google.com/p/eepe/

It’s a small program and won’t harm your computer and will basically be redundant unless you plan to use it like me.

Anyway, Hope this helps! Cheers! 🙂