Lee Wilson
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The bit rate of the Flip camera seems to average out to about 9000kbps. It’s a 720p device.
The Windows 7 reinstallations were half for other reasons than Vegas problems, but there seemed no reason to stick with 32 bit. Hopefully I won’t be wiping anything till this computer’s dead now…
Yes, the clips with a lot of light in, in two cases are very short, ten seconds, and yet juddery compared to a minute long bit of aquarium footage in subdued light. The bit rate can vary between 8800kbps to 1024, looking at some clips’ properties now, but light doesn’t seem to correlate to this as I’d expected. Indoor artificial light – a rail station in London – footage in my home in late afternoon/evening or 11 a.m. in the street in summer can be the upper or lower end of the bit rate range. Kooky.
(Turning off Aero/ using Windows Classic doesn’t help at all either.)
It’s a great program, I’d just love to iron this out…
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Putting the RAM back didn’t change anything. I’ve gone back to 64 bit now. The smoothness of the preview screen varies. I know my Flip mp4 clips contribute to this because of their type of compression or whatever, but I notice that clips with more light in are the most juddery. A clip in a restaurant and another in an aquarium are smooth, but two made walking along a street in daytime and good sunlight aren’t. Overall Vegas is not running as smoothly as it had four Windows 7 installations ago. Should changing the RAM allocated to video have any effect on this? It starts at 128mb but I always change that to 256mb or 384mb.
My system, AMD 3 ghz dual core, 4gb RAM, Windows 7 64 bit. My PNY/nVidia graphics card was inexpensive but has 512mb of its own RAM after a month or so of using the onboard, and I see there are people with quad core systems that still haven’t got smooth previews. Looking at the Performance tab of Task Manager, the CPU goes between 25 % and 55 %, the RAM 1.1 gb or less. Nothing’s really taxed, so I dodn’t get it. I’d like to get it back to being as (admittedly inconsistently) smooth as it was, not perfect, I don’t expect miracles. Any factors I mightn’t have considered?
Simpler video editing programs run the Flip clips well, like Videopad, which can show two clips running smoothly simultaneously on my 1.6 ghz dual core laptop, and the promising but buggy Linux ‘PiTiVi’. If Vegas is not doing everything it can do at once, and many of these things I’d never use as they’re too flash, then it’s a shame it’s consistently chomping resources or otherwise struggling. I don’t leave my internet on or have other stuff running when using Vegas, although I found during a period without broadband that there was no change with my AV software removed.
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Sorry, I should probably add that it’s Sony Vegas Platinum 9 I’m using, not Pro.
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Just making a little noise here in to draw attention to this unsolved thread. Thanks.
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Ha, excellent, I thought those dots had to do _something_.
Cheers.
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In case it helps comment, here’s an accurate version of my link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzcPL3WqwJU