[Nigel O’neill]

I too have noticed that behaviour of DVDA, but then again I am not running the latest build level of DVDA (133). Even though you may have 5.2, it is worth checking the downloads page to confirm you have the latest build for 5.2.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

That’s one way to move old stock 🙂 Re-badge it as ‘green’.

On the othre hand, with multi-terabyte sized drives becoming the norm, even though they may still run at 7200 rpm, they replace 3 or 4 drives we used to have to buy to get those sorts of capacities.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/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 didn’t think you could buy 5400 rpm desk top drives! 🙂

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

In terms of raw processing power, the 2720QM processor is a lesser performer than the 970. Where the 2720QM may struggle is in the laptop environment itself, where the other components such as motherboard or HDD are detuned or scaled down to reduce heat output.

Laptops traditionally were let down by their HDD’s, but SSD’s go a long way to resolving that, albeit a pricier option when compared to inexpensive SATA III desktop drives. SSD’s are still a bleeding edge item as far as I am concerned. I am waiting for the price per gigabyte to drop substantially before getting one.

I would be interested to know if your laptop’s CPU cooling policy is active or passive (you can search this forum for my posts). If the former, you may find your laptop shutting down mysteriously during heavy render work when the laptop cooler cannot cope. A win for the desktop :-).

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/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 just uninstalled the current driver, and it rolled it back to a 2001 version by itself

[Nigel O’neill]

And I didn’t get paid for it either, so I am definitely a funny farm candidate. It was volunteer work for the Brisbane Scouts .

[Nigel O’neill]

No, but good to know.

I did it the way I did because I used Ultimate S photo montage to set the image properties, durations and transitions en masse. I then ended up rendering it out and then crtl dragging the event shorter as I was looking for a duration shorter than 00.01!

It was a time lapse of a theatre bump-in over several weeks which I crunched down to about 30 seconds. Come to think of it, I think it was 4,000+ images.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Lars

After re-reading your post, I suggest importing your stills and then render them out to a lossless intermediary file. Bring that file back into Vegas and THEN do your pan and crop effects.

You could also import the images and then nest the Veg file in a new project and then do your pan and crops, but you may find your system performance will become an issue, hence my recommendation to render it out instead.

I recently did a project that had several thousand time lapse images of a duration of 00:00:00.01 each, and scrubbing on the timeline was painfully slow, even on my i7 system.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/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

I had the same problem on my Windows 7 machine (which was an upgrade from Vista). The legacy driver did the trick.

Interestingly, I have a wireless network adapter that only had Vista drivers for it, but got upgraded automatically with Windows 7, and still works, but will not install on a fresh Windows 7 machine. Go figure.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Glad I could help. I remember seeing that during my first Vegas demo when happened to the presenter who could not figure it out.

It later happened to me and I recall John Rofrano helped me out (when I was a Vegas n00b).

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6