[Randy Rogers]

What I did was change the format of the my pictures to a .png format using Irfanview. I also resized the photos to “Best Fit to Desktop”. Once I did that, I had no issues what so ever. It took some time to reformat my pictures but I had no other choice and once I did everything worked flawlessly.

Hope this helps.

Randy

[Randy Rogers]

I have antivirus running in the background but shut everything else down before I start editing. I think one of my biggest problems is that the still .jpeg pictures I am using are too large. I am convering them to png and resizing. I am using a USB 2.0 drive and will move all the video files back to that.

I upgraded to 3gig of ram when I first started having problems and it usually only eats up 1.5 gig or so. With the new version (d) build 139 I had a major problem with some HP office jet codec conflicting with the upgrade. It kept wanting to install Photogallery. What a pain that was. I’ll keep tweaking the system as suggested and see how that works out.

Thanks for you help.

[Randy Rogers]

Thanks Mike. I am going to try these suggestions and see how it goes. I did my research before buying Vegas because I felt it was the best. I try these suggestions and see how it goes.

[Randy Rogers]

Do you have a fast CPU? 3.00GHZ Pentium4
What’s your OS? XP Sp2
Is your Preview window set to Preview/Auto? yes
Do you have a lot of FX in the project? No, Transitions yes
Do you have a lot of large stills in the project? Yes
Are you rendering to the system drive or a dedicated video drive? This is where I may need some education. I am still in the process of building the video so I haven’t rendered it yet. However, all the files are on my system drive because I the external drive I was using via USB was too slow in transfer rate. But I haven’t “rendered” the project yet.

Thanks for the quick reply.