Stephen Mann
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Steve – he went from Pro 10 to Platinum 11 (a downgrade in my opinion), so there is likely fewer codecs installed.
OP – use Mediainfo to determine what codec created he file.
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“adding a filter does not overload the cpu, “
I didn’t say it would, only that it would tax the CPU more.
This is not a CODEC issue, simply a performance issue. Also, CPU usage is not a reliable performance measurement – it can only tell you that the CPU is or is not the bottleneck in your process.
“I suppose I should give up and switch to another nle system.”
Please do. Seriously. Download the demo versions of Avid and Premiere and see if they perform any better. I would really like to know the results. If you find a better tool for your workflow, then use it.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=premiere_pro
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Mine are all over the map from 1Kb to 894Mb. It all depends on how complex your project is since the veg file is everything you do on the timeline.
Why?
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The Dynamic RAM preview is used when you use CTRL-B to RAM preview a region. If you loop on a region, it does the same thing. Otherwise, it is only RAM that is not available for anything else.
That’s the theory. But experiments have demonstrated that Vegas uses some of the Preview RAM for normal editing and encoding. The sweet spot seems to be 1Gb. You can set it to zero, but encode times (in the Render As menu) take longer.
Almost all F/X and filters will require every pixel on every frame to be rendered. This is a lot of work for the processor and GPU to handle in real-time.
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First, an i7 should give you better performance than you are experiencing.
Do you mean the Preview RAM? The sweet spot seems to be around 1Gb.
How do you know the RAM is full?
Try running Resource Monitor (start/resmon) to see what’s happening. On the Memory tab then sort by the Commit column. This will tell you what programs are hogging the memory. In my case Firefox and Thunderbird are huge resource hogs.CPU usage doesn’t tell you much except that when it’s below 100%, your CPU isn’t the bottleneck.
Also, go into the task manager and make sure the Process Affinity (go to the Processes tab and right-click on Vegas110.exe. Make sure all cores are enabled. You can also bump the priority, but that won’t stick. The next time you run Vegas, the priority will again be “Normal”.
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As far as I can tell, that doesn’t do anything. It just makes the pink area smaller.
Yes, yes it does make the pink area smaller. And if you drag the top of the timeline window down, the pink area gets bigger. The pink space is where you had a panel docked then you either undocked it or closed it. Or you could go into the View menu and turn on another control panel and dock it in the pink space. Or you can just make the timeline panel larger.
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You had another window that you closed in the space above the timeline. Just drag the top of the timeline up.
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Any number of reasons. Bad source media or running out of RAM. If you are running a laptop, then see my reply below: “AVCHD hiccup by misu cucu”
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As you have discovered, AVCHD requires bone-crushing CPU power to preview. But your i7 should be enough, so something else is eating up all your resources.
If you have run any MS Office applications, close them and reboot the computer. MS Office applications load themselves into RAM the first time you use the,.
Turn off your anti-virus. Especially Norton. It may be examining every file I/O and greatly slowing the PC.
Turn off the WiFi. If you have Dropbox (a great program – highly recommended), it “calls home” periodically to look for updates.
Make sure your power settings don’t slow the HDD after a minute of no keyboard/mouse inactivity. Many laptops do this to artificially increase their battery life.
Hope this helps.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Notwithstanding that Sony put it into the “Render As” menu, you don’t render MPEG – you encode it.
First, did you use the DVDA templates for MPEG and AC3 encodes? The defaults are OK for up to 90-minutes of video. Any longer then you will need to customize the template to use a lower bitrate. (Bitrate controls the filesize).
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