Stephen Mann
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Sounds to me like a Windows problem, but it can’t hurt to re-install Vegas.
Here’s what I suspect – when you click on “Render As”, the dialog box opens pointing to the last folder you “rendered” to, or your documents folder if Windows can’t open the last “Render As” folder used.
Could Windows be having a problem with that folder?
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The Font Cache is optional, but any program (most notably MS Office Applications), will start it when you run those programs. It basically pre-loads your installed fonts into RAM so that the programs that use it will start faster. By default, the Font Cache service is set to manual. However, once you use a Windows Presentation Foundation program (like Word or PowerPoint), this service will start and -in some cases- set it to start automatically the next time you run Windows.
Since the Font Cache loads all of your installed fonts in RAM, it denies that RAM from other programs. Some power-users delete fonts they will never use. Also, if the Font Cache service encounters a bad or damaged font file, it may just keep retrying to load the bad font – forever. (High CPU usage and “not responding” are symptoms). (I guess the programmers at MS never thought that you could have a bad font file?)
The solution is to delete the Font Cache Files. Search on your boot drive for “FontCache*.dat (where * is the wildcard for “anything”) and delete them. The next time the Font Cache service runs, it will create a new Font Cache file.
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Please elaborate. Others may see this thread who can benefit from your experience.
Steve Mann
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Every project is different and you won’t know until you encode it and burn a test DVD. If your video has a lot of static shots, then it will keep to the average bitrate and look pretty good. If there’s a lot of changes from frame-to-frame or lots of movement in the scenes, it’s going to look bad.
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You mean this:
That is interlacing artifacts where the subject moved significantly between the odd and even scans. Yo didn’t say where the AVCHD files came from, but was this clip from that camera?
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You may not have done anything wrong. Walk us through your process.
“Render As” or “Save As” cannot do anything to your project file, even if you use the .veg suffix because windows won’t let you write over an open file.
Look in the project folder for a .veg file and try double-clicking on it.
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Crapware is the name given programs already installed on your PC that you would never buy nor use. But this subsidized the PC maker’s bottom line.
All PC’s accumulate sludge over time. You try out a program and forget to delete it, for example. Most only consume disk space but some run on start-up and consume PC resources.
Cleaning up a PC is way beyond the scope of this forum. To see everything on your PC, run the free program from Belarc – Belarc Advisor.
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One question per post please.
Balls – read up on key-framing on the manual.
Launch – Tape the scene twice. One with the actor jumping up, one with no actor. Put the event with the actor on a track above the empty scene. End the event where the actor begins the jump. The streak of the “actor” is probably a single frame of the actor with the background removed in Photoshop. The dirt is likely another jpeg image.
Time Freeze – look at “Velocity Envelope” in the manual.Steve Mann
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The “white screen” is Windows way of saying that you have run out of resources. It doesn’t matter what program you’re running, but in your case it hits when you are running Vegas.
New computer? Have you removed all the crapware?
It probably came with Norton Antivirus – turn it off and try again.Steve Mann
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Did you do a forum search? It seems that I post this every other week.
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“… but that’s not the case because I have X Gb of RAM so that shouldn’t be the problem.”
Low Memory or Out of Memory does not mean “Not enough RAM”, though adding RAM can sometimes fix a “Low Memory” waning. A “Low Memory” warning usually means that you have exceeded your commit limit. You need either a bigger page file, more physical memory, or both.
One of the biggest sources of confusion over Windows memory usage is the whole concept of virtual memory compared to physical memory. Windows organizes memory, physical and virtual, into pages. Each page is a fixed size (typically 4 KB). To make things more confusing, there’s also a page file (sometimes referred to as a paging file and dynamic RAM). Many Windows users still think of this as a swap file, a bit of disk storage that is only called into play when you absolutely run out of physical RAM. In versions of Windows starting with Vista, that is no longer the case. The most important thing to realize is that physical memory and the page file added together equal the commit limit, which is the total amount of virtual memory that all processes can reserve and commit.
Start the Task Manager, click on the “Processes” tab, then click on “Commit Size” to sort by size. This will show you which processes are memory hogs that you may be able to shut down.
All Windows since XP (and Unix/Linux for that matter) always wants to have page space. Always. Programs (including drivers and codecs) like to and are allowed to pre-allocate as much memory as they want. Even if they are never ever going to actually use it. Sometimes those programs properly deallocate memory, sometimes they don’t (resulting in “memory leak”). Sometimes, programs leave parts of themselves in allocated memory just in case you are going to run that program again. (MS Word, Excel and other Office programs are particularly adept at this). If you have no page file and a program wants to commit some for itself, your PC will crash (AKA, BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death).
Paging file configuration is in the System properties, which you can get to by typing “sysdm.cpl” into the Run dialog, clicking on the Advanced tab, clicking on the Performance Options button, clicking on the Advanced tab, and then clicking on the Change button. I would suggest a value of 1.5X the currently allocated value. The old advice of 2X or 3X your RAM is, well, old advice when a few MB of RAM was normal. The largest paging file that you can select in Windows is 4,095 megabytes (MB).
Also, Windows supports up to 16 paging files, but each must be on a separate volume, so if you have more than one internal disk drive you could try enabling a Paging File on your second hard-disk. DO NOT put a paging file on an external drive because if it’s not present when Windows boots, then Windows will crash.
For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740 and https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427
Let me repeat for emphasis: The largest paging file that you can select in Windows is 4,095 megabytes (MB).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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