[Michael Church]

Good to know, thank you! So I can scavenge a bit of ram speed to overclock my cpu a bit more, then perhaps at least have faster renders.

[Michael Church]

I’m Sorry, staring at a monitor in a dark room alone too long perhaps..
So, Win7 64 bit, Vegas 10 64 bit, intel i5 quad core running at 3.6ghz, 12 gb of ram (2 x 4 gb & 2 x 2 gb)
Yes, vegas sees all the ram. running a memory and cpu monitor while doing the ram preview, Vegas uses between 8 – 10 gb Ram, and only about 50 -60% cpu.

The original point I am asking about is…
I had this same setup, but with just the 4 gb ram, then added in another 8 gb ram, and I am not seeing much of a difference in the time it takes to render a ram preview. So I was wondering if I had setup the hardware incorrectly. After some other research, it would seem that I can run 2 different sets of memory in the 2 different memory lanes, so that should not be an issue.

Dealing with such large files, I am just trying to make sure I have my rig at max potential.
thanks for your patience

[Michael Church]

No need to cheat ( I don’t think..) as I am using 64 bit. It would be silly to have all this RAM and be running 32 bit. Vegas 10 64 bit.

[Michael Church]

Hi John, it’s kind of like you live here! Thanks as always for the response.

I use Ram preview quite a bit due to the large tiff files I am working with.
How else would I know it was not working faster after adding RAM?

There is no way to just play from the timeline and watch the flow to judge timing the keyframes. I am working on a slow pan across a 32,000 x 4800 tiff. Yes. I know. It is too big. The client wants some pretty tight zooms, and the original psb (392 mb) has enough res to get close up.

So, I keyframe, pan, click-drag select an area (1-2 video tracks) then shift B for Ram preview. Then I can see the actual flow.

I do occasionally read instructions before posting in the forums. 🙂

So, taking into consideration that I do know what Ram preview is, and that I saw the Pop-up window, isn’t 4 GB Ram left over enough?
Considering that is what my machine ran on before the new RAM, I would think so…

[Michael Church]

I guess there is no easy way. I spent a very long time copying keyframe attributes from and to the various tracks for a 10 second scene. But it works, looks smooth. I tried the put lots of keyframe points in across the timeline to match them up, they just kept looking like ponies racing.. “track 1 ahead by a nose, now track 3 is in the lead, but wait… here comes track 2 really pouring it on!”

Finally stripped out all keyframes except start and finish spots and copied all needed frame sizes, etc etc. had to make sure the smoothness and/or linear transition settings were all the same, take out any smoothness slider bar settings. just basically make sure it was all the same. Seems like there should be an automated way to do it. Its odd you can parent a child track as an object, but not as a camera….

[Michael Church]

Funny thing, I actually did stumble upon your method, John, in my button mashing. What that does is treat my window like an object. So when I move left or right, the image is clipped at the border and I see the track below
1474_3dmotionnono.png.zip

As you can see in this image, my still is much larger than my window/camera lens.
1475_keyframeofbg.png.zip

It is a moving camera lens effect I need, not a control to treat my current lens view as an object independent of the rest of the source image.
Do I drop a blank generated media into the top track and keyframe that with the pan, and will it control the 3 child tracks?
m C

[Michael Church]

You guys Rock. I don’t know any other forums (and I troll a lot what with audio production, web dev, vid, photoshop, various computer geekery, metal fab, glass making….) where I can ask a question, go have a cuppa tea, and shazammy! I got answers that work.

Thanks again, in Vegas now setting up .. let you know in a bit how it goes.

[Michael Church]

You know, I had a feeling it had something to do with that whole “parent child” dealy. I did some button mashing and tried to see if I could figure it out, (which is my main method of learning all things digital) but to no avail.
From the title of your tutorial, that seems to be exactly what I need to know. I would love it if there were a place in Seattle that did Vegas training, but the Cult of the Mac is powerful up here. I put together a dual boot machine that runs OSX off a different HD with FCP, but I have not really dove into it yet.

I will check out your tutorial now!
TY
MC

[Michael Church]

Not to deviate from Vegas, which I love (why does every editing job available want FCP editors?) But doing this effect in AE is pretty easy. If you have AE of course…. The 3d options in AE are great.