[Nigel O’neill]

The Vegas credit roll is not the most sophisticated.

I do up my credits in Excel, being careful about line length.

I then simply copy and paste (multiple row is possible) from Excel to the credit roll. I don’t have problems with extra line spaces and have used this technique to copy a list of 400 names which I didn’t want to retype or copy and paste line by line.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

I don’t think your laptop is the culprit in this case, even though it is pretty underspec’d in CPU, RAM and probably disk performance for any serious video editing. Something like this on my system renders pretty much in 3 minutes or less. Not bragging, just stating the facts.

Without knowing exactly what your Project Properties are and ‘Render As’ template you are using, I can only offer general advice. In your render template, if there is an option for GPU/video acceleration under Video, Advanced Video or System, disable it. It’s a long shot, but without knowing your laptop model, I can’t tell if your laptop has a CUDA or OpenCL video architecture. Vegas tries to take advantage of GPU acceleration, but as it was implemented badly, the side effects on some systems are crashing during editing and poor render performance. It’s a known issue.

If video acceleration is not available to you, I would look to your system. If you have everything on C: drive, I would consider installing another HDD or try hooking up a USB 3 drive (assuming your laptop is USB 3 capable), transfer your project to it, and render to it.

Lastly, if your anti-virus software has been recently updated, it could be the performance hog.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Has he tried Team Viewer?

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Ron Koms] “the SAME camcorder is $200 cheaper at 42nd Street Photo”

Do they price match in the US? In Australia, the big retailers will often price match or even beat other reputable retailers on price. I will often bring in a brochure or a quote from another retailer. I always haggle on price and never pay retail.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

To me the main benefit of breaking up project into sections is if I have to re-render to fix a tiny glitch. I generally haven’t worried about it and regularly do 1, 2 and 4 hour edits as one. Although my system is getting long in the tooth, it did have the #1 Intel i7 processor at the time, so I still get pretty fast renders, always better than real time even with heavy color grading.

The only time I generally work in sections is if I shared my edit with other editors and they give me their work separately.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[John Rofrano] “B&H Photo is not only one of the best merchants you will encounter, but they are also a supporter of the Creative COW “

I didn’t realise that. Good to know!

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Jeff Schroeder] ” I have had exceptional success with B and H photo-video “

I couldn’t agree more, and I live in Australia! Their pricing is much lower than what I can get locally, even after freight charges and taxes. Check out their second-hand section because often you get good bargains there. I scored two compact flash recorders (for recording via 1394) for the price of 1! There was nothing wrong with them except they were returned by buyers who had changed their mind.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

I am currently looking at a 27″ Benq SW2700PT IPS Adobe RGB Color Management Monitor. It’s a bit pricey, but rated as a reasonable monitor for photo and video editing

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

The Vegas upgrade will not resolve what essentially is a lower level operating system issue.

I rolled back my Windows 10 upgrade on 2 systems: a laptop and my main editing PC system, both of which were purchased circa 2009, and were very high-end at the time. The laptop would randomly freeze and never recover. The PC failed to load Windows after a video driver/RAID storage driver update, essentially stopping me from accessing my files. Thankfully the Windows 10 roll-back on my PC work as intended. It was either that of work with VGA graphics and disk write performance of 2 MBps which is really, really slow. Slower than copying files to USB 1.0.

My laptop just went into this endless recovery loop and I had to wipe everything and rebuild it from scratch. I tried the Windows 10 upgrade again on the clean system, with the same results, but this time Windows 10 rolled back successfully. I have installed GWX to stop the constant Windows 10 upgrade nagware.

I formed the conclusion that if your hardware is older than 2012, you will have issues.

I upgraded a 2012 laptop without issue.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Graham Bernard] “It’s starting to sound like you’re needing to hunt down the much needed 1394 Firewire chipset Legacy driver.”

From memory, under Vista and Windows 7 all I needed to do was uninstall the driver and Windows offered to install the legacy one by default.

Under Windows 10, the process appears different and you need to obtain a driver:

https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/Firewire-1.htm

I personally have not tried the above fix as I had many issues upgrading to Windows 10 on my 2009 hardware. I had video driver and a nasty RAID driver performance/compatibility issue that almost cost me my entire RAID contents, and I have since banished (rolled back) Windows 10 from my editing systems. The nagware to install Windows 10 was annoying to the point of taking on malware type behaviours to get you to install it, but that will thankfully cease on 29 July 2016 (I hope). When I do go to Windows 10, it will be on new hardware.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6