[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Does it matter whether the video files are on one hard drive or two?
Does it matter whether the hard drives are of a different kind?
When I disconnected one of those two drives and loaded the remaining video on the timeline, it went much faster. Probably due to already having built the peaks?

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Thanks very much, John. In all the years I use SVP I never looked at the timeline ruler setting. Never even knew you could adjust that. DUH. You were spot on of course: it was set to 29,97 fps. Problem solved. One less thing to worry about.
Thanks.

J.J.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Whenever I drag the edge of media it goes up to 29 instead of 24.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Thanks for the quick and to the point explanation.

J.J.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

I use SVP12 and therefor installed the software indicated for SVP 8 thru 12. There, under extensions, I saw no mention of autosave, save or anything like that. Sorry.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Thanks.
I found the software: Exaclibur. I misread the name on my phone. My eyes….
Anyway: in the temporary files folder I couldn’t find anything on undo’s and redo’s. I deleted a lot of files I thought I could miss, only to find them renewed once I started Vegas again.

I installed Excalibur and found it in Vegas. I read the manual. Despite all this I could not find what was described in the manual for autosaving anywhere in the dedicated window. Since I could also not pay for the software (I was redirected to a non existent page I believe, which is a bit alarming when you come to think of it) and without payment it can only be used for 15 days, I removed it. Much better to find and eliminate the problem, than to add stuff to remedy the then still existing problem. Non of the other functionalities of the software I need.

So I am still hoping to find the cause of this saving problem. It appeared that a newer version of my project was actually saved. It did not however appear in the recent projects list, nor was the one autosaved by Vegas.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

I did look up the temporary files folder, but didn’t know it could be a problem. I’ll check to see what can be deleted.
I tried to find the utility you mention. Where can I find it, and how do I use it?

Frequently renaming my project as you mentioned has been a practice for as long as I can remember. I do however save a project under the same name several times before renaming it. Otherwise the count would run into the hundreds for relatively small projects.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

How can I find out whether my card enables GPU acceleration? Is there something in the driver that I should change for that to work?
I got my graphics card from a neighbor who wanted an even bigger one. I have hardly used its potential, I think. I have just now started to use the third screen possibility, with great difficulty I might add. According to the specifications this card should be able to connect to up to 6 displays. So even now I am scratching the surface.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Thanks for replying.
No, I didn’t think of that. I should have, I know. I’ll let you know if it crashes again. It didn’t so far.

On this point I have a question: is there ever a circumstance in which you SHOULD enable GPU acceleration? The Sapphire HD7870 is a graphics card capable of HD gaming on as much as 6 screens. I would think this would help greatly previewing HD or even 4K projects. When applying multiple layers of effects, I often find Vegas struggling to give me even a mediocre preview quality.

[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek]

Thanks for responding so quickly. No, first time for blinking thumbnails, in Vegas or any software, as far as I can tell.
It has been a while since I worked on a new project of mentionable size, for which I captured and imported more than 4 hours worth of material. In the meantime I needed to update my graphics driver for the Radeon HD7870. This came about because I got a blue screen, which seemed to indicate the necessity of an update. Since then I haven’t had a blue screen anymore, so that seemed to have done the job.

When I started capturing and importing media, the blinking wasn’t there. It started after I had imported/captured for a while. Maybe 2 hours worth, I’m not sure. Might have been more. Since then the files of which the thumbnails were blinking, seemed to have changed slightly. After a fresh start I thought I saw some which were blinking previously not doing so anymore, and vice versa.

Does this help?