[John Magee]

Tried rebuilding the peaks, still get the blips. Typically they are at the very end or very beginning. It shows in the waveform. Sometimes they show up in other areas. Sometimes they go away during the same session. I did an mp2 render that sounded fine, but after sending it through DVDA to a DVD I could hear a glitch at the beginning of what used to be the m4a file.

[John Magee]

Thanks all for your help re the Raid issue.

[John Magee]

Terje – yes, during preview the cpu is at 50% but the frame rate is quite low. During renders the cpu is at 100%. So it’s confusing. My guess is that with multiple FX on during preview, the CPU is unable to work at its full potential because of the way the FX plugins are giving the cpu instructions on what to do.
I was told the video card doesn’t have to be anything too special to get good preview-playback.

[John Magee]

I’m editing AVI files, from mini-DV. Any FX at all lower the frame rate considerably, which I understand, is normal. But the CPU is only working at 50% during those times. Hmmm. During renders the CPU is doing 100%, which is great. Now, I have a slight drop in the rate also with no FX (in Good – Full)) but this is small, say 29.0 fps. Still, with a 3gig HT chip and 1 gig memory you’d think it would be perfect.
So this thread started with RAID questions. Me wondering if my drives were a bottle-neck. If the CPU is only at 50% but the frame rate is low, you’d think it was the drives. But because there’s only a playback issue when FX are going, and assuming that the CPU is in charge of processing those effects, you’d think it was the CPU’s fault. And I wonder why the CPU isn’t working full-time to give me better playback. Maybe this is just the way Vegas talks to the CPU?

[John Magee]

Thanks, Terje. Yeah, I’m doing video. If the speed-up will be minimal, and I back up regularly…then no need I guess. What kind of work benefits from the speed-up of RAID-0?

[John Magee]

George – there is a little box that shows you this: make sure you have the “Active Take Information” checked on the View menu from the menu bar.
John

[John Magee]

Edward – thanks for your tip. I tried the Control-Resize move and see that it does show the velocity percentage in a little box as you drag. You’re right – this way’s a lot easier. Thanks

[John Magee]

Whoops – too late at night I guess. The answer to my own question is that I have velocity-envelopes open on those events so that when I use Split Event, it rubber-bands to its original [faster]speed, so it looks like I’ve lost frames.
Thanks for being here!

[John Magee]

Dan –

I’m assuming that you MOVED the lower-case twain file from the windows folder to the system 32 folder rather than COPY. And that you deleted the upper-case TWAIN. Is that right?

[John Magee]

Thankyou Dan, Jeditv, and Majnoo,

I killed the wowexec in taskmanager and Zing! Vegas opened right up. I can close Vegas and open it again without having to do this little trick, until my next session. I’ll try Dan Crandall’s trick later to make it permanent.

Thanks everybody for quick Help.