Stephen Mann
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You don’t say which version of Vegas you are running, but V12 requires a minimum of 4Gb of RAM. Even then, you will likely run out of RAM during renders and encounter page swapping (using the hard-disk for RAM), greatly slowing the process.
If you only have 2Gb of RAM, then I am surprised that Windows even runs.
Once you get past the 4Gb minimum requirement, additional RAM is only useful to a small extent unless you have a lot of individual images or F/X, which all need some RAM.
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Why then does it display speed options up to 24x?
That’s the clue… When any burning program defaults to odd burn speeds, it means that the program or the hardware driver does not recognize the media. Since the other program recognized the disk correctly, then it’s probably not the hardware driver. Which version of DVDA are you using?
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AC3 is a very uncommon source for editing, so why make every Vegas buyer pay for the licensing to include the AC3 decoder?
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First – DO NOT EVER install a codec pack on your editing PC. They are for gaming and the codecs are inferior to those that are installed with Vegas.
Run the program through mediainfo (https://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en), this will tell you what codec is missing.
I wasn’t going to download a 300Mb file to look at the encoding, but the filesize for an hour of program tells me that the odds are the files were made using the DIVIX or XVID codecs, which are notoriously incompatible with Vegas. (They are actually crap and incompatible with a lot of editing programs, but that is just my opinion).
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I have to admit, I’ve never used Selective Prerender and I’ve been using Vegas more than 10 years. I will occasionally do a prerender region to ram (Shift-B)to make sure a transition or F/X is working as expected.
It’s possible that you aren’t getting a reply because no one else is using it either.Steve Mann
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How old is the DVD burner? Have you tried looking at the manufacturer’s site to see if there’s a firmware upgrade?
Except for laptops, the price of a DVD drive is less than $20 now, you can even get BD burners for $69 at Microcenter. If your current drive is more than a few years ago, I would just try a new drive. If it’s a laptop, then an external USB2 drive would cost about double the internal drives.
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My OS is Vista.
Oh, the humanity!
64-bit?
Do you otherwise meet the minimum hardware requirements for Vegas 12?
How much RAM do you have? Yes, the minimum says you can run Vegas 12 with 4Gb of RAM. But that’s about it – as soon as you want to actually do something, then you run out of RAM real fast and go into page swapping, which can sometimes present itself as a “not responding” error – particularly if your swap disk is the same drive where your video editing files are located.Here’s the minimum hardware requirements from Sony:
Vegas Pro 12 system requirements
Microsoft® Windows Vista® 64-bit SP2, Windows 7 64-bit, or Windows® 8 64-bit operating system
2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D)
1.2 GB hard-disk space for program installation
750 MB hard-disk space for content installation
4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
OHCI-compatible IEEE-1394DV card (for DV and HDV capture and print-to-tape)
USB 2.0 connection (for importing from AVCHD, XDCAM EX, NXCAM, or DVD camcorders)
512 MB GPU memory
Windows-compatible sound card
DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW (for DVD burning only)
Supported BD-R/-RE drive (for Blu-ray Disc™ burning only)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.51 (included on application disc)
Apple® QuickTime® 7.1.6 or later for reading and writing QuickTime files
Internet Connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service)
GPU-accelerated video processing and rendering require an OpenCL™-supported NVIDIA®, AMD/ATI™, or Intel® GPU with 512MB memory or more. Detailed specifications and driver requirements can be found at: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuaccelerationSteve Mann
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There’s probably a few hundred things that could be happening, but the first place to look is in the Windows Resource Monitor (resmon). In the “Overview” tab, look for Vegas. Right click on Vegas then select “Analyze Wait Chain”. This will hopefully tell you what process is hanging Vegas up.
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x264? You mean h.264?
h.264 is a presentation format and does not edit well.If I *had* to work with a highly compressed source, like h.264, the first thing I would do is make an uncompressed intermediate, probably an uncompressed mov or avi.
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Running FRAPS?
Let’s assume that you aren’t running the games on your editing PC.
I have never seen a Vegas installation run well with FRAPS files.
From what I read, FRAPS (like codec packs) installs codecs that overwrite the otherwise good codecs installed by Vegas.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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